Department of Africana Studies

D'Ondre Swails

Assistant Professor in History and Global Black Studies at Clemson University, Fall 2015 Cohort
Research Interests Politics and Governance, Black Radicalism

Biography

D’Ondre Swails earned his BA in philosophy and sociology at Morhouse College and his AM in Africana Studies at Brown University. His research interests are in African-American cultural politics and history; Black radical thought; and Black expressive cultures. He is currently working on his dissertation project, which is a study of criminalization and the political function of the “gangsta” figure.