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WISIR Talk: Adom Getachew, Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago

Adom Getchew (Chicago, Political Science)
Friday, May 27, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
The Olson Room (Gowen Hall 1A)

Adom Getachew is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of 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. Her first book, Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, reconstructs an account of self-determination offered in the political thought of Black Atlantic anticolonial nationalists during the height of decolonization in the twentieth century.

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