director
Nathan D. B. Connolly
Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History
Contact Information
- nconnol2@jhu.edu
- Gilman 390
- 410-516-7983
Research Interests: The interplay between racism, capitalism, politics, and the built environment in the twentieth century
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
associate director
Stuart Schrader
Associate Research Professor, Africana Studies
Contact Information
- stuart.schrader@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 231
Research Interests: Racial inequality in criminal justice, war and empire, historical-comparative methods, social theory
Education: PhD, New York University
Faculty Board
Alessandro Angelini
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Contact Information
- angelini@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 457
Research Interests: Brazil, ethnography, material practices, commodification of urban poverty, surveillance
P.J. Brendese
Associate Professor, Political Science
Contact Information
- pbrende1@jhu.edu
- 354 Mergenthaler
Research Interests: Political theory, comparative political thought, race and politics
Education: PhD, Duke University
Erin Aeran Chung
Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics
Contact Information
- echung@jhu.edu
- 365 Mergenthaler
- 410-516-4496
Research Interests: Comparative politics, East Asian politics (Japan and Korea), international migration, comparative racial politics
Education: PhD, Northwestern University
François Furstenberg
Professor, History
Contact Information
- f.furstenberg@jhu.edu
- Gilman 306
- 410-516-0158
Research Interests: The history of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Clara Han
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Contact Information
- clarahan@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 463
- 410-516-2864
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
Contact Information
- jhickman@jhu.edu
- Gilman 30C
- 410-516-3843
Research Interests: The nexus of Americanity, modernity, and globality and its attendant utopian and millenarian projects
H. Yumi Kim
Assistant Professor, History
Contact Information
- h.yumikim@jhu.edu
- Gilman 330A
Research Interests: gender, Japan, history of medicine and psychiatry, colonialism
Vesla Weaver
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology
Contact Information
- vesla@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 272
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
Postdoctoral Fellows
Daniel Cumming
Postdoctoral Fellow
Contact Information
- dcummi11@jhu.edu
- Gilman 90
Research Interests: racial capitalism, environmental injustice, housing policy, care labor, metropolitan studies, historical methods, social theory
Education: PhD, New York University
RIC Lecturer
Jasmine Blanks Jones
Executive Director, Center for Social Concern, and Assistant Research Scholar
Contact Information
- jblanks2@jhu.edu
- Gilman 90
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
staff
Sheharyar Imran
Graduate Fellow
Contact Information
- shimran@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 224
Research Interests: Political ecology, racial capitalism, decolonial thought
Education: BA, Vassar College