Faculty

"The eyes of others our prisons; the thoughts of others our cages." -- V. Woolf 

PhD, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley; MA, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley; AB, History, Washington University

• Desire for Race (Cambridge University Press, November 2008)

•    “Race After the Cultural Turn” in Mark Jacobs and Nancy Hanrahan eds., The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture, 2004

•   Legal Weapons for the Weak? Democratizing the Force of Words in an Uncivil Society,” Law & Social Inquiry 26, 2001

•  “Classifying Acts: State Speech, Race, and Democracy,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory8, 2001
• “The Constitution of Meaning: On the Practical Conditions of Social Understanding,” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 20, 2000