Jesse Benjamin, PhD

Dr. Jesse Benjamin is Research Scholar on Race at the Radow Institute for Social Equity (RISE), and professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding, and Development. A cultural anthropologist (MA 1996) and world-historical systems sociologist (PhD 2002, SUNY Binghamton) with interest in the sociology of race, Pan-Africanism, epistemology, coloniality, and political economy, his many publications include the recently co-edited Walter Rodney volumes The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World (2018) and The Groundings With My Brothers (2019), both @VersoBooks. He is a Board member at the Walter Rodney Foundation, where he founded the Walter Rodney Speakers Series, and has won numerous awards for his scholarship, teaching, diversity leadership and community engagement.