Vanessa Agard-Jones, Ph.D. New York University 2013, is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, where she holds secondary appointments in the departments of Anthropology and African American Studies. Her ethnographic research focuses on the intersections of sexual and environmental politics and their relationship to debates about sovereignty in the (French) Caribbean. Professor Agard-Jones’ work has been published in Small Axe, GLQ, and on the medical anthropology platform Somatosphere. With late historian Manning Marable she is editor of Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line. She is currently writing a book about pesticides, (sexual) politics, and postcoloniality in Martinique.