Faculty

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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

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.

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

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

Jodi Byrd

Professor, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

jabyrd@uchicago.edu

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Matthew Kruer

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

kruer@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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