Juliet Hooker is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Democracy Project at Brown University. She is a political theorist specializing in racial justice, Black political thought, Latin American political thought, democratic theory, and contemporary political theory. She has also written on racism and Afro-descendant and indigenous politics in Latin America. Before coming to Brown, she was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss (Princeton University Press, 2023), Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (Oxford, 2017), Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford, 2009), and editor of Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas: From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash (Lexington Books, 2020). Theorizing Race in the Americas was awarded the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Ralph Bunche Book Award for the best work in ethnic and cultural pluralism and the 2018 Best Book Award of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Black Grief/White Grievance was awarded the 2024 Best Book Award of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and was a finalist for the PROSE Award in Government and Politics from the Association of American Publishers in 2023, a Library Journal Best Social Science Book of the Year, and a Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year. Prof. Hooker has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the DuBois Institute for African American Research at Harvard, and the Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Roundtable Panelist, “What The Media Is Getting Wrong About Kenosha" (2020)
