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Alexander Ghedi Weheliye is the Malcolm S. Forbes Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where he serves as Chair of the Department. His work encompasses critical theory, Black literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, social technologies, and popular culture. Weheliye is the author of three influential books: 'Phonographies: Grooves Sonic Afro-Modernity' (2005), which received the Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize; 'Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, Black Feminist Theories Human' (2014); and 'Feenin: R&B Music Materiality BlackFem Voices Technology' (2023). His ongoing projects include 'Modernity Hesitant: Civilizational Diagnostics W.E.B. Du Bois Walter Benjamin,' examining the ways in which thinkers envision the complexities of modern civilization, and 'Schwarz-Sein: Black Life Human,' which situates Blackness within a framework of ungendered ontology and unbelonging. His research has been published in various journals and anthologies concerned with Black Europe, the African Diaspora, and mobile music studies.
Department: Department of Economics