Sean Jacobs
Associate Professor of International Affairs
Email
jacobss@newschool.edu
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Sean Jacobs is associate professor of international affairs at the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School. He is the publisher of Africa is a Country, a site of criticism, analysis and new writing. The writer Teju Cole described Africa Is a Country as "basically the inside of my head." His book, Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization, was published on May Day 2019. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked for the Institute for Democracy in South Africa and as a journalist. He has been awarded Fulbright, Shorenstein, Commonwealth, Africa No Filter, and Shuttleworth fellowships.
Degrees Held
PhD, Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2004
MA, Political Science, Northwestern University, 1996
BA Honours, Political Studies, University of South Africa, 1994
BA, African Politics and Afrikaans-Nederlands, University of Cape Town, 1990.
Professional Affiliation
Board Member, Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, 2019 — Present
Advisory Board, Radical Books Collective, 2021 – Present.
Board Member, African Studies Association, 2018 – 2020.
Member, International Communication Assoociation, 2019 – Present.
Recent Publications
View a list of Sean's publications here.
Research Interests
African Politics
The Politics of Sports
Media and Popular Culture
Left Intellectual History
Portfolio
Academia.edu
Africa is a Country
The Guardian
Roads & Kingdoms
The Nation