director

Nathan D. B. Connolly
Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History
PhD, University of Michigan
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
PhD, New York University
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
PhD, Duke University
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
PhD, Northwestern University
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
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
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
PhD, Harvard University
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
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
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
PhD, New York University
Gilman 90dcummi11@jhu.edu
Research Interests: racial capitalism, environmental injustice, housing policy, care labor, metropolitan studies, historical methods, social theory
staff

Sheharyar Imran
Graduate Fellow
BA, Vassar College
Mergenthaler 224shimran@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Political ecology, racial capitalism, decolonial thought