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Stuart Schrader

Stuart Schrader

Associate Professor, History

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Research Interests: Policing, racial inequality in criminal punishment, war and empire, historical-comparative methods, social theory

Education: PhD, New York University

Faculty Board

Alessandro Angelini

Alessandro Angelini

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

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Research Interests: Brazil, ethnography, material practices, commodification of urban poverty, surveillance

Education: PhD, City University of New York

P.J. Brendese

P.J. Brendese

Associate Professor, Political Science

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Research Interests: Political theory, comparative political thought, race and politics

Education: PhD, Duke University

Erin Aeran Chung

Erin Aeran Chung

Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics

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Research Interests: Comparative politics, East Asian politics (Japan and Korea), international migration, comparative racial politics

Education: PhD, Northwestern University

Nathan D. B. Connolly

Nathan D. B. Connolly

Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History

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Research Interests: The interplay between racism, capitalism, politics, and the built environment in the twentieth century

Education: PhD, University of Michigan

Johaina Katinka Crisostomo

Johaina Katinka Crisostomo

Assistant Professor, English

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Research Interests: Research Interests: Asian/Asian American Literatures, Latinx/Latinx American Literatures, Political Philosophy, Religion, Comparative Empire Studies

Education: PhD, University of California Berkeley

Zophia Edwards

Zophia Edwards

Assistant Professor, Sociology

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Research Interests: Research Interests: Development, Global & Transnational, Labor & Labor Movements, Postcolonial, Political, Race & Ethnicity, Comparative & Historical, Quantitative Methods

Education: PhD, Boston University

François Furstenberg

François Furstenberg

Professor, History

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Research Interests: The history of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Clara Han

Clara Han

Professor, Anthropology

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Research Interests: Violence, care, urban poverty and everyday life; affliction and illness experience; death and dying; anthropology and philosophy
; Chile, the Southern Cone, Latin America; the United States; and connections and intersections with Asia

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Jared Hickman

Jared Hickman

Associate Professor, English

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Research Interests: The nexus of Americanity, modernity, and globality and its attendant utopian and millenarian projects

Education: PhD, Harvard University

H. Yumi Kim

H. Yumi Kim

Assistant Professor, History

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Research Interests: gender, Japan, history of medicine and psychiatry, colonialism

Education: PhD, Columbia University

Julian Lim

Julian Lim

Associate Professor, History

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Research Interests: Research Interests: Immigration, North American Borders And Borderlands, Race; Law, U.S. West, Pacific World, 19th-20th Century U.S. History, And U.S. Expansion And Empire

Education: PhD, Cornell University

Nandini Pandey

Nandini Pandey

Associate Professor, Classics

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Research Interests: Latin literature; Roman history, politics, and visual culture; race, identity, and diversity; classical reception (especially across ages, media, and cultures); public humanities

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Vesla Weaver

Vesla Weaver

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology

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Research Interests: racial inequality, colorism in the United States, the causes and consequences of the dramatic rise in prisons, the consequences of rising economic polarization

Education: PhD, Harvard University

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Ronay Bakan

Ronay Bakan

Graduate Fellow

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Research Interests: war and violence, peacebuilding, urban politics, race and ethnicity, gender studies, and critical methodologies

Education: BA & MA, Bogazici University

April Ma

April Ma

Graduate Fellow

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Research Interests: critical security, threat construction, post-Cold War, racial political imaginaries, knowledge production

Education: BA, University of California, Berkeley

Postdoctoral Fellows

Tali Ziv

Tali Ziv

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Research Interests: urban inequality, addiction, incarceration, and community reentry from jail/prison, ethnography

Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania

RIC Lecturer

Jasmine Blanks Jones

Jasmine Blanks Jones

Executive Director, Center for Social Concern, and Assistant Research Scholar

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Research Interests: Youth cultural production, global citizenship education, social determinants of health, Black performance and embodied knowledges, youth in Africa

Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania