Yolanda Covington-Ward

Dr. Yolanda Covington-Ward is a professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. She served as the Department Chair in Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh with a secondary appointment in Anthropology. She is currently President of the Association for Africanist Anthropology, Vice-President of the Liberian Studies Association, and is an executive board member of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD).

Professor Covington-Ward's research focuses on embodiment, identity, religion, performance, and politics, emphasizing the agency and creativity of people of African descent in transforming the worlds around them.