Africana Studies
North Academic Building
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267
phone: (413) 597-2242
fax: (413) 597-4222

Administrative Assistant:
Lucy Gardner Carson
Lucy.G.Carson@williams.edu

Joy James is the John B. and John T. McCoy Presidential Professor of the Humanities & College Professor in Political Science, and Senior Research Fellow in the Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas-Austin.

Her work focuses on political and feminist theory, critical race theory, and incarceration. Publications include: Resisting State Violence: Gender, Race, and Radicalism in US Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1996);
Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals
(Routledge, 1997); Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics
(St. Martin's, 1999), and the forthcoming, Memory, Shame and Rage: The Central
Park Case, 1989-2002 (University of North Carolina Press). She is editor of The
Angela Y. Davis Reader (Blackwell, 1998).

Co-edited works include: Spirit, Space and Survival: African American Women in (White) Academe (Routledge,1993), which received the 1994 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book on Human Rights Award; The Black Feminist Reader (Blackwell, 2000); and The Problems of Resistance: Studies in Alternate Political Cultures (New York: Humanity Books, 2001).

Her edited collections on radical politics and incarceration include: States of Confinement: Policing, Detention and Prisons (St. Martin's,2000, revised edition 2002); Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion (Rowman& Littlefield, 2003); The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings (SUNY Press, 2005): and Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy (Duke UP, 2007).

James is editor of the Rowman & Littlefield book series "Political Transformations: Difference, Dissent & Discourse," and also serves on the editorial boards of the journal Souls and Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and GenderStudies.
James is editor of the Rowman & Littlefield book series "PoliticalTransformations: Difference, Dissent & Discourse," and also serveson the editorial boards of the journal Souls and the internationale-journal Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and GenderStudies.

She is the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford
Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NY Public
Library), the Rockefeller-Bellagio Center (Italy), and the Fletcher Foundation.
Her current research focuses on "Black Women in National Politics, 1964-2004,
from Fannie Lou Hamer to Condoleeza Rice."