Joy Gleason Carew

Joy Gleason Carew is a Professor of Pan-African Studies who retired from the University of Louisville in 2020 after 20 years of teaching. She holds a PhD in Linguistics and her research focuses on African Diaspora Studies, along with the intersections of identity,  language, race, gender and social class. With a background in Russian and French studies, she has traveled in Russia (both during and after the Soviet period) where she studies Black-Russian relations. She is the author of Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise (Rutgers University Press) and Episodes in My Life: The Autobiography of Jan Carew (Peepal Tree Press).