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Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism

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Political Power and Social Theory

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Political Power and Social Theory Volume 38

Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism

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Alexandre I. R. White

Johns Hopkins University, USA

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Katrina Quisumbing King

Northwestern University, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Contributors

Marcelo A. Bohrt is Assistant Professor at the School of International Service at American University. Dr. Bohrt holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Texas and a PhD in Sociology from Brown University. Dr. Bohrt specializes in the sociology of race, political sociology, and organizational sociology.

Ricarda Hammer is an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan. She works on questions of citizenship and freedom struggles in the context of colonialism and global racial formations, and she is interested in Du Boisian and anticolonial thought more broadly.

Mishal Khan is a Historical Sociologist focusing on global labor after the abolition of slavery in South Asia and the British Empire. With a doctorate from the University of Chicago, Mishal is postdoctoral fellow at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights at the University of Texas School of Law Austin.

Aliza Luft is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA. Her work has been published in Sociological Theory, Qualitative Sociology, European Journal of Sociology, Socius, Journal of Perpetrator Research, and other venues. Her research examines why people with no preexisting history of violence support violent state projects, when and why they stop, and the consequences of violence for postconflict nation-making projects.

Michael Warren Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Sociology with a secondary appointment in African Studies, at the University of Pittsburgh.

Heidi Nicholls is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation research examines how settler colonists constructed whiteness in coordination with their claims to sovereignty in Virginia and Hawai‘i.

Tina M. Park received her PhD in Sociology from Brown University. She is currently a Research Fellow at Partnership on AI (PAI) where she is researching methodologies and practices to better enable AI practitioners on engaging diverse stakeholders and communities in the design and development of artificial intelligence.

Katrina Quisumbing King is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. She studies racial classification and exclusion from a historical perspective that foregrounds the state’s authority to manage populations. She is particularly interested in the ways state actors conceive of and make decisions around race and citizenship. Her research recenters empire as a key political formation.

Luisa Farah Schwartzman is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Her research is about how contextually dependent, informal and institutionalized ideas about race and other markers of difference affect social inequality, and attempts to measure and address it. Much of her previous and ongoing work focuses on Brazil.

Kazuko Suzuki is an Associate Professor of Texas A&M University and the author of the award-winning book, Divided Fates: The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States. She is the coeditor of Reconsidering Race: Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics.

Susan Thomson is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University. She is the author of Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace (Yale University Press, 2018) and Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda (Wisconsin University Press, 2013).

Alexandre I. R. White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and School of Medicine. His research sits at the intersections of the sociology of race and ethnicity, history of medicine, and medical sociology.

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