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Jointly appointed in Anthropology and African American Studies, and a faculty member of Yale’s Programs in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, LGBT Studies, Ethnicity Race, and Migration, and American studies; Professor Allen teaches courses on the Black diaspora; cultural politics of race, sexuality and gender; Black feminist and queers of color theory; ethnographic methodology and writing. Dr. Allen is the recipient of numerous fellowships, from the Social Science Research Council, National Science Foundation, and Ford Foundation, for example, Dr. Allen is the author of the critical ethnography of race, gender, sexuality and revolution, ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba; editor of Black/Queer/Diaspora– a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies; and numerous scholarly and popular articles, book chapters, and blog posts. He is currently working on a new book project– Black/Queer Here and There- which traces cultural and political circuits of transnational Black queer desire, in travel, tourism, art, and activism, in and between the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Africa, and North America. Allen’s third project is a comparative study of the 1980s in Britain, Commonwealth Caribbean, and the US—tentatively entitled Structural Adjustments.