About Me
I am a writer and an academic focusing on Black Studies. Currently, I am Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and I have taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Colby College and Bates College. I received my PhD from Columbia University’s Middle East, South Asia and African Studies Department (MESAAS), focusing on African Studies. I also hold a Master’s degree in African American Studies from the Institute for Research in African American Studies from the same university. My dissertation entitled, “The Bleaching Carceral: Police, Native and Location in Nairobi, 1844-1906,” explores racial policing as constitutive of urban colonial space. Current research foci include police power, race, colonial sexualities, anti-blackness and urbanity especially in East Africa and the United States. Teaching interests cover courses on policing, the raced city, the global black lives matter movement and intellectual histories and literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora. I have also published two collections of poetry and continue to write creatively.
Novelettes
THE OCEANIST; Diaries of a Seafarer with an Adult Doll
Published Writing
Editorials
1. "Patriotism is Racist" Al-Jazeera.com
2. "There is no Relatively Benign Version of Settler-Colonialism" AAIHS.Org
3. “Re-shelve civil rights, we need something stronger today” Aljazeera.com
4. "The Blackface Game in the App Store You Probably Didn't Know Existed" Blavity.com
5. “MAGA Dale is Not a Good Guy” Aljazeera.com
6. “Why I believe that a White Professor Using the n-word out of Academic Interest is often an Excuse to Enjoy Using the Word.” Blavity.com
Short Stories
1. "Hansel and Grethel" The Bare Life Review.
Poetry
1. Three Studies BrittlePaper.com
2. Old Friend, We Made This for You
3. Empress
Novelettes
THE OCEANIST; Diaries of a Seafarer with an Adult Doll
Published Writing
Editorials
1. "Patriotism is Racist" Al-Jazeera.com
2. "There is no Relatively Benign Version of Settler-Colonialism" AAIHS.Org
3. “Re-shelve civil rights, we need something stronger today” Aljazeera.com
4. "The Blackface Game in the App Store You Probably Didn't Know Existed" Blavity.com
5. “MAGA Dale is Not a Good Guy” Aljazeera.com
6. “Why I believe that a White Professor Using the n-word out of Academic Interest is often an Excuse to Enjoy Using the Word.” Blavity.com
Short Stories
1. "Hansel and Grethel" The Bare Life Review.
Poetry
1. Three Studies BrittlePaper.com
2. Old Friend, We Made This for You
3. Empress
Yannick Marshall
ygm2103@caa.columbia.edu
