Please join us for the next WISIR 2021-2022 Speaker Series event! Professor Adom Getachew (University of Chicago) will be giving her talk, “A History of Self-Determination before Decolonization,” on Friday May 27th from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm in Gowen 1A (Olson Room).
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.
