Hazel Carby
Hazel V. Carby is the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Yale University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. From 2022 to 2024 she was a Centennial Professor at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute, and from 2021 to 2022 was the Roth Visiting Distinguished Scholar at Dartmouth College.
Her study Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso, 2019) was awarded the 2020 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding by the British Academy. It was a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, ASA, 2020 and Highly Commended for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, 2020. Imperial Intimacies was selected as one of the “Books of the Year for 2019,” by the Times Literary Supplement and #1 of “Top Ten Books About Aftermath of Empire,” by The Guardian July 14, 2021. Her current project is provisionally titled Planetary Futures and the Political Ecology of Art.
Recent honors awarded to Professor Carby include election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023; the DeVane Medal, Yale Phi Beta Kappa, 2021; election as Honorary Fellow, Learned Society of Wales, 2021; honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, Wesleyan University, 2019; the Stuart Hall Outstanding Mentor Award, Caribbean Philosophical Association, 2019; and the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in American Literature, MLA, 2016.
Her previous books are Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America (1999); Race Men (1998); Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (1987), and she is also a co-author of The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain (1982).
Recent articles by Professor Carby include “Remembering the Future,” London Review of Books, 46, 7 April 2024; “Redefining American Art,” This Land, Hood Museum, University of Washington Press (forthcoming); “Exposure,” Diaspora and the Modern, October Journal, Fall 2023; “Foreword,” Charlotte Williams, Sugar and Slate, Library of Wales, 2022; “We must burn them,” London Review of Books, 44, 10, 26 May 2022; “Imperial Intimacies – further thoughts,” Small Axe, 64, March 2021: 198-203; “Between Black and White,” London Review of Books, 43, 2, January 2021; “Black Futurities: Shapeshifting Beyond the Limits of the Human” Invisible Culture, 31, November 2020; “The National Archives,” Invisible Culture, 31, November 2020; “Peine forte et dure” London Review of Books 42, 1530 July 2020; “Safe? At Home? Feminist Review, 06 July 2020; “Errant Daughters: A Conversation between Saidiya Hartman and Hazel Carby,” The Paris Review, January 21, 2020.