Adom Getachew | |
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![]() Adom Getachew at the 2023 Tanner Lectures on Human Values | |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Virginia, Yale University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
Main interests | history of political thought,theories of race and empire,and postcolonial political theory |
Website | political-science |
Adom Getachew is an Ethiopian-American political scientist. She is Professor of Political Science and Race,Diaspora &Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. [1] She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire:The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination . [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Adom was awarded a PhD in Political Science and African-American Studies from Yale University in 2015. [7] She was born in Ethiopia. She was raised in Ethiopia and Botswana until the age of 13,when her family moved to Arlington,Virginia,United States. [8] [9] [10]
Her first book,Worldmaking after Empire:The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019),centers the work of African,African American,and Caribbean anticolonial nationalists and their efforts to challenge the global hierarchy. [11] Ultimately,she argues that legally decolonized countries face unequal legal,economic,and social integration in the international plane. [12] These stratified relationships continue to perpetrate imperial structures.