People

director

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

associate director

Stuart Schrader

Stuart Schrader

Associate Research Professor, Africana Studies

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Research Interests: Racial inequality in criminal justice, 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

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

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

Associate 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

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

H. Yumi Kim

H. Yumi Kim

Assistant Professor, History

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

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

Postdoctoral Fellows

Daniel Cumming

Daniel Cumming

Postdoctoral Fellow

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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

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

staff

Sheharyar Imran

Sheharyar Imran

Graduate Fellow

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Research Interests: Political ecology, racial capitalism, decolonial thought

Education: BA, Vassar College