Charity Clay joins the History department as a visiting professor of African American History. She comes to Rhodes after being a 2023-24 research fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Before that she was a professor of Sociology at Xavier University of Louisiana. Dr. Clay is an integrated methods sociologist of the African Diaspora who has taught courses in Sociology, Women's and Gender Studies and African American and Diaspora Studies. Her work centers around place based understandings of Black liberation and resistance movements. These movements date back to the 1600s with Marronage from enslavement in the New World; include decolonization movements on the African continent during the 1900s, and provide frameworks for understanding the Social Media era of Black Freedom struggle in the United States.
