Dr. Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin, Ph.D., is a research scholar on race at the Radow Institute for Social Equity (RISE), and a professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and for 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 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 Public Speakers series, and has won numerous awards for his scholarship, teaching, diversity leadership and community engagement.