How can distinctive, original scholarship encourage the pursuit of justice in society or the academy? In this series, scholars who have made indelible statements in both areas discuss the conditions of their work and how their political and intellectual investments inform each other.
Pictured: Ruha Benjamin, 2023
2022-2023
Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr
We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production”
May 1, 2023
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University
"Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want"
October 18, 2022
2021-2022
Kelly Lytle Hernández, History, University of California, Los Angeles and Million Dollar Hoods
"Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands,"
April 20, 2022
2020-2021
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, History, The University of Texas at Austin
"Conversations on the History of 'Hispanics' in the U.S., from Marginality to More Marginality,"
September 25, 2020
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, History, The University of Texas at Austin
"Conquest? Collapse and Rise of Ancien Régime in 16th Century Spanish America and the Role of Paper Archives,"
September 23, 2020