director
Nathan D. B. Connolly
Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History
Gilman 390410-516-7983
nconnol2@jhu.edu
Research Interests: The interplay between racism, capitalism, politics, and the built environment in the twentieth century
associate director
Stuart Schrader
Associate Research Professor, Africana Studies
Mergenthaler 231stuart.schrader@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Racial inequality in criminal justice, war and empire, historical-comparative methods, social theory
Faculty Board
Alessandro Angelini
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Mergenthaler 457angelini@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Brazil, ethnography, material practices, commodification of urban poverty, surveillance
P.J. Brendese
Associate Professor, Political Science
354 Mergenthalerpbrende1@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Political theory, comparative political thought, race and politics
Erin Aeran Chung
Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics
365 Mergenthaler410-516-4496
echung@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Comparative politics, East Asian politics (Japan and Korea), international migration, comparative racial politics
François Furstenberg
Professor, History
Gilman 306410-516-0158
f.furstenberg@jhu.edu
Research Interests: The history of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries
Clara Han
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Mergenthaler 463410-516-2864
clarahan@jhu.edu
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
Jared Hickman
Associate Professor, English
Gilman 30C410-516-3843
jhickman@jhu.edu
Research Interests: The nexus of Americanity, modernity, and globality and its attendant utopian and millenarian projects
H. Yumi Kim
Assistant Professor, History
Gilman 330Ah.yumikim@jhu.edu
Research Interests: gender, Japan, history of medicine and psychiatry, colonialism
Vesla Weaver
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology
Mergenthaler 272vesla@jhu.edu
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
Postdoctoral Fellows
Jasmine Blanks Jones
Postdoctoral Fellow
Gilman 90jblanks2@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Youth cultural production, global citizenship education, social determinants of health, Black performance and embodied knowledges, youth in Africa
Daniel Cumming
Postdoctoral Fellow
Gilman 90dcummi11@jhu.edu
Research Interests: racial capitalism, environmental injustice, housing policy, care labor, metropolitan studies, historical methods, social theory
staff
Sheharyar Imran
Graduate Student Assistant
Mergenthaler 224shimran@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Philosophies and politics of language, ordinary language philosophy, poststructuralism, queer theory, postcolonial theory, queerness in everyday life, South Asia