Destin Jenkins has joined the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences as an associate professor of history and of Black studies. He has previously served as the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago and as a tenured professor at Stanford University in California. A scholar of the political economy of capitalism and racial inequality in America, he is the author of the book, The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
A graduate of Columbia University, Dr. Jenkins received a Ph.D. in modern U.S. history from Stanford University.
David J. Knight has joined the Yale community as an assistant professor of sociology and of Black studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. Currently serving as director of the Movements Against Mass Incarceration Lab, his research explores how communities experience mass incarceration and mobilize in response to it. Before his new appointment, he taught at Columbia University.
Dr. Knight received a bachelor’s degree in history from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago.
Lauren Whitehurst is a new assistant professor of psychology and of Black studies for the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She comes to Yale from the University of Kentucky, where she was an assistant professor of psychology, director of Team Science in the Center for Clinical Translational Science, and affiliate with the Center for Health Equity Transformation and the department of African American and Africana studies. Earlier, she was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Health and Community at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Whitehurst earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and master’s degree in experimental psychology from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Riverside.
