Atiya Husain

Associate Professor (on leave)

• BA (University of Michigan), MA and PhD (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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On leave for the 2025-2026 academic year

Drawing on the fields of sociology, legal studies, cultural studies, and Black studies, my research program is guided by a fundamental interest in how “race” constitutes a material reality; is an organizing principle in European colonial structures of thought; and is a contested idiom that is claimed and deployed in multiple and often contradictory ways.