Local Faculty Affiliates

Currently located at the University of Chicago, the Race and Capitalism Project is directly involved with several scholars who have turned this campus into an exciting hub for the study of racial capitalism.

Joyce Bell

Joyce Bell is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Her research agenda deals with race, work and organizations, and social movements. She is the author of the book Black Power Professionals: The Black Power Movement and American Social Work, which describes the impact the Black Power movement had on social work as a profession. She is also interested in the notion of diversity as a racial project.

Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She received a joint PhD in Political Science and African-American Studies from Yale University. Her recent book is Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, which shows how African, African American, and Caribbean anti-colonial nationalists sought not only to remake nations but also the world.

Destin Jenkins

Destin Jenkins is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of US History at the University of Chicago. His research specialties are 20th century US, African-American history, urban studies, race and inequality, and the history of capitalism. Jenkins earned his BA in modern US history from Columbia University and his PhD in US History from Stanford University. Before joining UofC, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. His first book project is titled Bonded Metropolis: Debt, Redevelopment, and Racial Inequality, which is about municipal debt in San Francisco as a means of providing the city’s white middle and upper class with infrastructure and social services. Currently, with Justin Leroy, he is co-editing a volume tentatively titled The Old History of Capitalismfor Columbia University Press. Jenkins has written for Process: A Blog for American History and Public Books, where he also edits the capitalism series.

Ryan Jobson

Patricia Posey

Ryan Jobson is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His book manuscript is Deepwater Futures: Sovereignty at Risk in a Caribbean Petrostate, an ethnographic study of fossil fuel industries and postcolonial state building in Trinidad and Tobego. Jobson is also Associate Editor of the journal Transforming Anthropology.

Patricia Posey is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Previously, Posey was a predoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, where she specialized in American Politics. Her research interests include American political economy, inequality, race and ethnic politics, and research methods. Her work has broader implications in the areas of urban political economy, political behavior, institutions, and the social implications of technology. She has a book chapter with Daniel Gillion on the effects of minority protest on government responsiveness that is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Additionally, she has published with The Washington Post Monkey Cage and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, and Politics of Color. Her recent academic papers are available here and a dissertation description is available here.