She currently holds the title of Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies and is affiliated with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs and Gender and Sexuality Studies. In 2009, Perry left Rutgers to join the faculty of Princeton University.
Perry was also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an adjunct professor at both the Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies and Georgetown University Law Center. She received the New Professor of the Year award in her first year and was promoted to full professor at the end of five years, also winning the Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. īefore joining the Princeton faculty, Perry taught at Rutgers School of Law in Camden for seven years. She credits her childhood exposure to diverse cultures, regions, and religions with creating her desire to study race. She completed a Future Law Professor's Fellowship and received her LLM from Georgetown University Law Center. from Harvard Law School (from which she graduated at the age of 27). in American Civilization from Harvard University and her J.D. Perry received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in American Studies and Literature from Yale University in 1994.
She has described herself as a "cradle Catholic". Perry was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her parents when she was five years old. Perry won the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. She is currently the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a columnist for The Atlantic. Imani Perry (born September 5, 1972) is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African-American culture. Race, law, African American culture, Citizenship, American Politics, Intellectual Traditions, Neoliberalism, Culture and Life, Feminist Thought, Religious Thought
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