Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Perry earned her B.A. from Yale College in 1994 where she completed a double major in literature and American studies. She received her Ph.D. in the Program in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, both in 2000. The subject of her doctoral dissertation: "Dusky Justice: Race in the U.S. Law and Literature," is a source of continued research. During the course of her education, she received a number of fellowships including the Mellon Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Humanistic Studies and the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for Minorities. She also served as the Future Law Scholars Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, where she taught law and literature. In the spring of 2002, she was a visiting scholar at the Center for Law and Society at University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. Professor Perry has taught courses in the history department at Suffolk University and served as an independent study instructor and teaching fellow in the African-American studies department at Harvard University. She has a number of publications in African-American studies and popular culture studies, as well as a book Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop, forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her most recent publication, coauthored with Len Rubinowitz is "Crimes Without Punishment: White Neighbors Resistance to Black Entry" (Northwestern University School of Law, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology).
