Keith Feldman joins Ethnic Studies faculty
July 1, 2009
"Professor Feldman brings to our Department a sophisticated scholarly focus on race-making--in a comparative frame, and avowedly in the context of both national and global processes of political-economic power and identity-formation,” says Thomas Biolsi, department chair. “His research and teaching address how specific groups are racialized in deeply cultural terms that are at the same time saturated with relations of power and domination. Our Department is fortunate to have recruited Prof. Feldman, and we look forward to his contributions in our undergraduate and graduate programs."
This fall, Feldman will be working on his book manuscript, Racing the Question: Israel/Palestine and U.S. Imperial Culture, which is based on his dissertation. He will be teaching the following undergraduate courses during the 2009-10 year: Translation and the Dialect/ics of Diaspora; Comparative Racialization in an Age of Endless War; Humanities Methods in Ethnic Studies. His graduate seminar is entitled Critical Globalities, Critical Comparisons.
"I am deeply humbled to join a community whose commitment to the study of the worldliness of race and its relation to decolonial knowledge has indelibly shaped my own formation as a scholar,” Feldman says. “I want to thank the department for its warm welcome this summer and look forward to our many future collaborations."