Carina Ray

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Assistant Professor

Affiliation

Fordham University, The Bronx, New York

Email

caray@fordham.edu

Mailing Address

Department of History
Fordham University
Dealy Hall, Room 639
441 E. Fordham Road
The Bronx, New York 10458 USA

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: 718-817-0581
fax: 718-817-4680

Countries of Specialization

Ghana

Education

Ph.D., Cornell University

Research Interests

Colonial/Post-Colonial African History
The racial and sexual politics of colonial rule
Comparative histories of race mixture in Africa and the Diaspora
The relationship between race and political power in post-colonial Ghana
The African Diaspora and reverse migration

Doctoral dissertation, "Policing Sexual Boundaries: The Politics of
Race in Colonial Ghana," examines a series of interventions made by
British colonial and metropolitan authorities during the first half of the
twentieth-century that sought to impose sexual boundaries between Africans
and Europeans.

Publications

None on file.

Keywords

African history ; colonialism ; race relations ; sexual politics ; migration ; Diaspora ; ...