IHGC Fellow, Chris Gratien, welcomes Professor Amanda Joyce Hall.  More details to come!

Amanda Joyce Hall is a historian of twentieth-century social movements with a specialization in Black internationalism, transnational movements, and radical organizing throughout North America, Africa, and the broader Black world. Hall's research interests include conceptual and political histories of anti-apartheid, decolonization, African diaspora, Blackness and Black consciousness, anti-colonialism, and abolition.

Hall completed her doctorate in History and African American Studies from Yale University in 2022 where she was awarded the Sylvia Ardyn Boone prize for best dissertation in African and African American art and culture. Hall was formerly a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University, a dissertation fellow in UCSB’s Department of Black Studies, and a History Workshop fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.  She holds master’s degrees in International and World History from Columbia University and the London School of Economics, and in Education from Fordham University in New York City.