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Leora Auslander

Associate Chair, RDI, and Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization in the Departments of Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity and History, and the College

Office: Kelly 111

lausland@uchicago.edu

Leora Auslander is the Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization in the College; Professor in the Departments of RDI and History, a...

Joyce Bell

Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, the Department of Sociology, and the College

Office: Kelly 104

Interests:

Racism in work & organizations and social movements, the role of diversity discourse in organizations, higher education policy, and in the law, Black futures, visions for liberatory organizations, Black internationalism and Black fashion.

Joyce M. Bell is Associate Professor in RDI, the Department of Sociology, and the College. In my research and teaching I ask questions about racism i...

Claudia Brittenham

Professor of Art History, the College, Ancient American Art, and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Office Hours: Tuesdays 5-6pm or by appointment

Office: CWAC 261

brittenham@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Indigenous histories, histories of colonization, Mesoamerica, art history

I study the art made by Indigenous people in Mesoamerica before and in the decades immediately after the Spanish invasion. My work involves reckoning ...

Adrienne Brown

Associate Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity and English and the Director of Arts + Public Life

adrienneb@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Critical race studies, architecture and urban studies, American studies, Modernism, postmodernism, the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, popular culture, visual culture, and sound studies

I specialize in American and African American cultural production in the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the history of racial perception. My t...

Jodi Byrd

Professor, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

jabyrd@uchicago.edu

Professor Byrd’s research focuses on indigenous studies, indigenous feminist and queer studies, and video game studies. Their 2011 book The Transi...

Cathy J. Cohen

D. Gale Johnson Distinguished Service Professor and the inaugural chair for the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Office: Kelly 111

cjcohen@uchicago.edu

Cathy J. Cohen is the D. Gale Johnson Distinguished Service Professor and the inaugural chair for the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at...

Michael Dawson

Professor Emeritus, John D. MacArthur Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity Studies, Political Science, and the College

mcdawson@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Black political behavior and public opinion, political economy, and black political ideology.

Michael C. Dawson is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity Studies; Political Science; and the College at the University ...

Eve L. Ewing

Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Interests:

Afrofuturism, Black feminism, Du Boisian sociology, Race, Education and Social Inequality

Eve L. Ewing, a lifelong Chicagoan, is a writer and scholar who uses multi-genre storytelling, tools of sociological inquiry, archives, and community-...

Adom Getachew

Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity

Office: Pick Hall 513

agetachew@uchicago.edu

Interests:

history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory

Adom Getachew is Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is a political theorist with resear...

Adam Green

Associate Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity, and History

Office: Kelly 107

Interests:

Post-emancipation African American history, cultural studies, urban studies and intersectional critical race studies

I am an Associate Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity, and History at the University of Chicago. I have taught at UChicago...

Ryan Jobson

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity, and the College

Office: Haskell Hall 216

rjobson@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Energy and extractivism, states and sovereignty, climate and crisis, race and capital.

Ryan Cecil Jobson is an anthropologist and social critic of the Caribbean and the Americas. His research and teaching engage issues of energy and extr...

Matthew Kruer

Assistant Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity and History

kruer@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Early American history; Indigenous histories; settler colonialism; sovereignty; conspiracy theory; histories of emotions

Matthew Kruer is a scholar of early modern North America exploring the relationship between Indigenous power and the development of the British empire...