Ricarda Hammer

Ricarda Hammer

Ricarda Hammer

Assistant Professor
Office
460
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Anticolonial Politics, Empire, Citizenship, Global and Transnational Sociology, Sociology of Race & Racism, Historical Sociology, Social Theory, Du Boisian Methodologies
Representative Publications

Hammer, Ricarda & José Itzigsohn (2024). "Rethinking Historical Sociology: Learning from W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Radical Tradition," Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X24000110

Hammer, Ricarda (2023). “Between Stuart Hall and Cedric Robinson: Capturing Imaginaries of Racial Capitalism,” Review Symposium for Jordanna Matlon “A Man among Other Men,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 9(2): 225-250

Hammer, Ricarda (2022). “Rethinking the Political Community: Violence and the Colonial Making of the Modern Nation State,” Review for Mahmood Mamdani “Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities,” European Journal of Sociology, 62(3): 536-544

Hammer, Ricarda, & Tina M. Park (2021). The Ghost in the Algorithm: Racial Colonial Capitalism and the Digital Age. In Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism (pp. 221-249).

Hammer, Ricarda (2020). Decolonizing the Civil Sphere: The Politics of Difference, Imperial Erasures, and Theorizing from HistorySociological Theory38(2), 101-121.

Hammer, Ricarda & Alexandre I. White (2019). Toward a Sociology of Colonial Subjectivity: Political Agency in Haiti and LiberiaSociology of Race and Ethnicity5(2), 215-228.

Hammer, Ricarda (2018). Bringing the Global Home: Students Research Local areas through Postcolonial PerspectivesTeaching Sociology46(2), 135-147.

Hammer, Ricarda (2017). Epistemic Ruptures: History, Practice, and the Anticolonial Imagination. In International Origins of Social and Political Theory (Vol. 32, pp. 153-180).