Rahsaan Mahadeo

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• B.A.: Sociology/Psychology, University of Rhode Island, 2004
• M.A.: Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 2009
• PhD: Sociology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2019

Specialties

• Black studies/study
• radical thought and praxis
• (ruling) episteme
• time, temporality
• (im)migration, citizenship and deportation
• Caribbeanity
• urban sociology/ethnography

Activities

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Activities

Outreach

• Urban 4-H: The Silence the Violence Crew. June 2012 - February 2014
• Urban 4-H: E^3 (Education, Empowerment, Enlightenment). June 2012 - February 2014

Research

• Research Assistant: Medical deportation project. June 2013 - June 2015

Awards

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Awards

• American Studies Association (ASA) Lora Romero First Book Award, 2025
• Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellow, September 2013 - September 2016
• Sociological Research Institute Outstanding Publicly Engaged Scholarship, 2014 - 2014
• Outstanding Community Service Award, University of Minnesota, 2014 - 2014
• Vincent L. Hawkinson Foundation for Peace and Justice, October 2012

Courses

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Courses

• AFRO 1011: Introduction to African American Studies
• AFRO 1201: (Racial Formation and Transformation in the United States)
• AFRO 3120: Social and Intellectual Movements of the African Diaspora
• AFRO 3745: (Black Cultural Studies)
• AFRO 8910: (Race and Temporality)
• AFRO 8910: Proseminar in Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality Studies