Charity Clay

Charity Clay serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of African American History in the Department of History at Rhodes College. She joined Rhodes College following a 2023-24 research fellowship at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and prior service as a professor of Sociology at Xavier University of Louisiana.

Her educational credentials include a Ph.D., though specific institutional details and dates are not provided in the source text.

Dr. Clay operates as an integrated methods sociologist of the African Diaspora, with research centered on place-based frameworks for understanding Black liberation and resistance movements. Her work spans historical periods from 17th-century Marronage in the New World through 20th-century African decolonization movements to contemporary Black Freedom struggles in the Social Media era. Teaching expertise encompasses Sociology, Women's and Gender Studies, and African American and Diaspora Studies, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement with systemic liberation frameworks.

Her primary scientific recognition includes:

• 2023-24 Research Fellow, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University