Connor Jenkins

Connor Jenkins (he/him) is a doctoral student in Black Studies and History and is pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (expected graduation 2031). His research examines the incidence and function of non-procreative and non-normative sexual violence in American slavery. A Dean’s Emerging Scholar at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he hopes to focus on the rural American South to understand the afterlives of slavery. Before Yale, he worked as a paralegal for the Criminal Appeals Bureau at The Legal Aid Society in New York City. A North Carolina native, he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2022 from Brown University in History and Africana Studies.