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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

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

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

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...

Samah Choudhury

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office: Kelly 109

samah@uchicago.edu

Dr. Samah Choudhury is a visiting faculty member and researcher with the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity for the 2023-2024 academic year...

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

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

Pranathi Diwakar

Postdoctoral Researcher

Pranathi Diwakar has just completed her term as a Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences at the University, where she earned her PhD in 2022, with a d...

Eve L. Ewing

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

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

Jacqueline Gaines

Senior Department & Student Affairs Administrator

Office: Kelly 101

jgaines@uchicago.edu

As the Student Affairs Administrator, Jacqueline is responsible for advising RDI majors and minors and coordinating undergraduate and graduate student...

Adom Getachew

Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity

Office: Pick Hall 513

agetachew@uchicago.edu

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