Crystal Feimster
Yale University
Crystal Feimster, (Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000), is a tenured Associate Professor of African American Studies, History and American Studies at Yale University. Feimster’s academic focus is racial and sexual violence; currently, she is completing a project on rape during the American Civil War. Her book, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, focuses on two women journalists, Ida B. Wells, who campaigned against lynching, and Rebecca Latimer Felton, who urged white men to prove their manhood by lynching black men accused of raping white women.
Crystal Feimster was an Associate Visiting Scholar at the American Academy from 2009-2010.