Tyesha Maddox is a Historian of the African Diaspora.

She received her PhD in History from New York University in 2016.  Before joining the faculty at Fordham University, she was the 2015-2016 African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellow at Boston College and a 2015-2016 Kate B. & Hall J. Peterson Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. In 2018, she was a Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Research Library in NYC as a Ford Foundation/Mellon Foundation Fellow. She was the 2019-2020 Race and Gender Post-Doctoral Associate at Rutgers University.

She received a BA in History and Africana Studies '06 and a MPS in Africana Studies '08 both from Cornell University. Her Master’s thesis comparatively examined Caribbean American and African American social, cultural, and political interactions pre and post-World War II. Her research and teaching interests include the African Diaspora, Caribbean, Black Atlantic, Women and Gender, African American History, Race, Transnational Communities, Migrational Movements, Immigration, Black Identity Formation, Social and Cultural History.

For more on her current book project, A Home Away from Home Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity (UPenn Press, 2024), visit Research.