Jafari S. Allen

Jafari Sinclaire Allen is the Director of Africana Studies, and Center for Global Black Studies; and Associate Professor of Anthropology, at the University of Miami.

His scholarship and teaching have opened new lines of inquiry and offered re‐invigorated methods of narrative theorizing in anthropology, Black diaspora studies, and feminist and queer studies. His new book—There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life, will appear on Duke University Press.

A recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Columbia and Yale universities, and others; Allen is the author of ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba; editor of Black/Queer/Diaspora; the new introduction to Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men, and a number of other publications. Allen is currently at work on two monographs: Marooned in Miami: Ecologies of Black Life on an Edge; and Structural Adjustments: Black Survival in the 1980s.

Please virtual visit and engage Professor Allen at https://twitter.com/jafariallen or www.jafariallen.com