Jafari S Allen is the newly appointed Director of Africana Studies, and The Miami Initiative on Intersectional Social Justice, and Associate Professor of Anthropology, at the University of Miami.
Formerly Associate Professor of African American Studies, and Anthropology; and the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Director of Graduate Studies, at Yale University: Allen’s scholarship and teaching has 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 Discoball Between US: Ethnography of an Idea, will appear on Duke University Press in 2019.
A recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, 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; and a number of other publications. Allen is currently working on two research projects: beginning research on a third monograph: Structural Adjustments: Black Survival in the 1980s, and serving as Lead Co-PI on an interdisciplinary research team: “Reproducing Race in Miami”.