Joy James

During a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Santa Cruz, James worked closely with Angela Davis, who was on the faculty and edited the Angela Y. Davis Reader. Joy James has held positions as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1990–96); as associate professor in the department of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder (1997-2000), where she also served as the director at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (1998); as distinguished visiting scholar at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University (1999-2000), and as professor of Africana studies at Brown University (2000-2005). In 2005 she joined the faculty at Williams College. Joy James has worked with Black feminist academics to form the Black Internationalists Unions as a form of abolitionism that fights anti-black regimes.

Joy James (born September 27, 1958) is an American political philosopher, academic and author. She holds the Ebenezer Fitch Professorship of Humanities at Williams College. She was a Senior Research Fellow at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin where she developed the Harriet Tubman Digital Repository. Her current research focuses on "The Algorithm of Anti-Racism," incarceration, and rebellion against police violence by captive maternals.