Emmanuel Guerisoli
Postdoctoral Fellow, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
Email
emmaguerisoli@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 79 Fifth Avenue
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Emmanuel Guerisoli holds a PhD in Sociology and History from The New School for Social Research and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility.
Previously, he studied law in Argentina and France, specializing in international criminal law and human rights, and earned a Master's degree in politics and international studies in the United States, focusing on international security and terrorism. In his doctoral dissertation, he explores how the interaction of emergency regimes, racialized securitization, and settler colonial spatial frameworks cements the foundations of the war on terror’s legal architecture and informs the design of the different legal modalities that have been applied by the United States against terrorist subjects.
Emmanuel relies on race critical theory and (post)colonial studies, making use of a historical comparative methodology and critical legal analysis, in order to trace the complex genealogies of each different legal mechanisms, revealing their settler colonial legacies and showcasing how they have generated differential citizenship by extending jurisdiction beyond U.S. borders and by fragmenting constitutional protections to certain racialized subjects within the country. While at Zolberg, he will teach courses focusing on racialized (im)mobilities and settler colonialism, transform his dissertation into a book manuscript, and start exploring a research framework to study the current, and future, effects of climate change on human and no-human mobility and to develop impact scenarios on states capabilities.
He has taught courses on race critical theory, sociological theory, citizenship, legal, political & historical sociology, migration, and state & non-state violence. He has also been engaged with NGOs and other agencies in Buenos Aires and NYC in areas such as imprisonment, sexual violence, reproductive rights, immigration. Since March 2020, he has been involved with COVID mitigation and research efforts at various medical and vaccination centers in the New York City area, focusing on assisting Hispanic patients.