Perry attended the public elementary school King Open School in Cambridge,Massachusetts,alongside Ilyon Woo.[10] She attended high school at Concord Academy in Concord,Massachusetts,graduating in 1990. Perry received her Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies and Literature from Yale University in 1994. She subsequently earned her Ph.D. in American Civilization from Harvard University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School (from which she graduated at the age of 27). She completed a Future Law Professor's Fellowship and received her LLM from Georgetown University Law Center.[11] She credits her childhood exposure to diverse cultures,regions,and religions with creating her desire to study race.[9]
Before joining the Princeton faculty,Perry taught at Rutgers School of Law in Camden for seven years. She received the New Professor of the Year award in her first year and was promoted to full professor at the end of five years,also winning the Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. Perry was also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an adjunct professor at both the Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies and Georgetown University Law Center.[12]
In 2009,Perry left Rutgers to join the faculty of Princeton University. She held the title of Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies and is affiliated with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs and Gender and Sexuality Studies.[13]
In August 2014,Perry appeared on the public radio and podcast On Being,discussing race,community,and American consciousness with host Krista Tippett.[14]
On November 17,2021,Perry's collected artwork,Welfare Queen,by Amy Sherald,sold for $3.9M in a Phillips New York auction.[17]
In 2023,Perry joined the faculty of Harvard University,where she is the Henry A. Morss,Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women,Gender and Sexuality jointly appointed with African and African American Studies.[1] She is also the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor,Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
2004:Prophets of the Hood:Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop, Duke University Press; ISBN9780822334354
2005: Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Barnes & Noble Classics Series, Notes and Introduction, Barnes & Noble; ISBN9781593082932
2011: More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States, New York University Press; ISBN9780814767375
2018: ' for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, Beacon Press. ISBN9780807064498
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
On February 6, 2016, Perry was pulled over by the Princeton police, who alleged that she was speeding at 67mph in a 45mph zone.[23] Her driver's license was then found to be suspended due to unpaid parking tickets, one of which was two–three years old. Perry was arrested for the outstanding warrant and physically searched. She was handcuffed, transported to the police station, and handcuffed to a bench during the booking process. Perry posted bail and was released.[24] She subsequently drew parallels between police conduct in this incident and behavior cited in the national debate around racially-motivated mistreatment, actual or alleged, of African Americans by the police.[25] Video released by the Princeton Police Department revealed that she might have exaggerated her claims of mistreatment by the officer, though portions of the encounter remain out of view and there is no publicly available video of treatment at the police station.[26] She appeared in municipal court the month after her arrest and paid $428 in traffic fines, the judge having reduced and amended the charges to a lesser offense, "from 22 miles over the speed limit, to nine miles over".[27]
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