The Faculty

Ryan Jobson

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ryan Jobson

Area of Study

Department of Anthropology

Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization

Ryan Jobson

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Professor Jobson is a social scientist and Caribbean cultural critic trained in anthropology and African American Studies. His research and teaching engage issues of energy and extractive resource development, technology and infrastructure, states and sovereignty, and histories of racial capitalism in the colonial and postcolonial Americas. Broadly, his research examines the relationship between modern energy regimes (i.e. plantation slavery, carbon-based fuels) and the modern political ideal of sovereignty. 

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