2022-23 Nicholson Distinguished Faculty Lecture

Adom Getachew

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago

Lecture title: TBA

Introduction by Jennifer Pitts

March 28, 2023, 5:00PM

Venue: TBA

Adom Getachew is Assistant Professor of Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity, Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is a political theorist with research interests in the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory. Her work focuses on the intellectual and political histories of Africa and the Caribbean. She is author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) and co-editor with Jennifer Pitts of W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought (2022). She is currently working on a second book on the intellectual origins and political practices of Garveyism—the black nationalist/pan-African movement, which had its height in the 1920s. Her public writing has appeared in Dissent, Foreign Affairs, the London Review of Books, the Nation, and New York Times.  She is on the faculty board of the Pozen Center for Human Rights, the Faculty Advisory Board of the Center for the International Social Science Research, a fellow at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.