Clayton Covington is a Sociology Ph.D. student at Harvard University interested in questions of gender and sexuality, politics, culture, and social movements in the Caribbean. Hailing from the suburbs of Kansas City, Clayton is always looking for the best barbecue in town and wears his Midwestern pride on his sleeve. Clayton completed his B.A. in International and Area Studies with a minor in Sociology Magna Cum Laude at Washington University in St. Louis. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Prior to starting at Harvard, Clayton worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University and a Research Aide to the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at Cornell University.