Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities
Education
M.A. Fordham University, International Politics (1982)
Ph.D. Fordham University, Political Philosophy (1987)
Areas of Expertise
Political theory
Human rights
Antiblackness and genocide
Feminisms
Abolitionisms
Courses
PSCI 210 / AFR 210 / AMST 210 / INTR 210 / WGSS 210 SEM
Culture and Incarceration (not offered 2025/26)INTR 219 / AFR 217 / AMST 217 / LEAD 219 / PSCI 219 / WGSS 219 TUT
Women and Girls in (Inter)National Politics (not offered 2025/26)INTR 220 / AMST 201 / LEAD 220 / PSCI 221 / AFR 224 TUT
Cold War Intellectuals: Civil Rights, Writers and the CIA (not offered 2025/26)INTR 322 / PSCI 313 / AFR 322 / AMST 322 SEM
Race, Culture, Incarceration (not offered 2025/26)INTR 341 / AFR 340 / PHIL 341 / PSCI 373 SEM
Black Marxism: Political Theory and Anti-Colonialism (not offered 2025/26)Scholarship/Creative Work
Transcending the Talented Tenth
Resisting State Violence
Seeking the ‘Beloved Community’
Editor: The Angela Y. Davis Reader
Co-editor: The Black Feminist Reader
Anthologies on radical politics and abolitionism include:
The New Abolitionists
Imprisoned Intellectuals
Warfare in the American Homeland
Current Committees
- Diversity and Community
About
Joy James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is the author of Resisting State Violence; Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics, Transcending the Talented Tenth and Seeking the Beloved Community. James has published numerous articles on: political theory, police, prison and slavery abolition; radicalizing feminisms; diasporic anti-black racism; and US politics; and writes on the Captive Maternal through the lens of “The Womb of Western Theory.” Creator of the digital Harriet Tubman Literary Circle at UT Austin https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/7828, James is editor of The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings; Imprisoned Intellectuals;Warfare in the American Homeland; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; and co-editor of the Black Feminist Reader. James’s most recent books include: In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love and New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the Afterlife of Erica Garner.