Clayton Covington

Clayton Covington is a PhD Student in Sociology with a Secondary Field in Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality and a research focus on the political economy of humanitarian intervention and cultural processes of social change in the Caribbean. Drawing on mixed-methods, his work combines historical and contemporary cases to examine the evolving status of citizenship. Clayton earned his BA in International and Area Studies and minor in Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was also a Mellon Mays Fellow. As a fellow, Clayton conducted archival research in Jamaica, where he documented the evolution of the country’s anti-sodomy laws and related punishment. 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 as a Research Aide to the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at Cornell University.