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Sujatha Fernandes is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, which she joined in 2016. Previously she was a Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before this, she was a Wilson-Cotsen Fellow at Princeton University’s Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts (2003 – 2006). She has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Fernandes is the author of Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Duke University Press, 2006), Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2010), Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation (Verso, 2011), and Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her latest book is entitled, The Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke University Press, 2020). She has published articles in many edited volumes and journals, including Signs, Contexts, Latin American Politics & Society, Ethnography, and Anthropological Quarterly. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, and Chinese. She is a contributor to The New York Times, The Nation, and Dissent, among other publications. She has been featured in New York’s Daily News, and has appeared on ABC Australia, NPR, MSNBC, American Public Radio, BBC, and many other news outlets globally. She is an editorial board member of Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora. She is on the advisory board of a series on Race, Labor Migration, and the Law at the University of California Press.
Sociology and Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS)
Research interests
Fernandes' work explores social and labour movements, participatory media and art, global Black cultures, migrant workers, and climate storytelling. Her writings are concerned with the stories of those erased by history, multi-racial working class encounter and solidarities, anti-Blackness, neoliberalism and colonial presence.
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3240