She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and her Bachelor's degree in English from Princeton University. Her current work maps a network of enmeshed Afro-Asian intimacies in the metropolises of New York's Chinatown and Toronto as well as the plantations of the West Indies and the American South. Assembling spy thrillers, beauty pageant photography, recipes, reggae songs, and family photographs, as a rich archive of Afro-Asian intimacies in the Americas, Dr. Goffe reads cultural objects against the grain of colonial history.