Benjamin Slightom

Graduate Student

Division:

Sociocultural, African American Studies

Adviser(s):

Kate Dudley, Aimee Cox

My research focuses on post-industrial society in the U.S. rust belt, and takes a critical-spacial, Marxist lense to uncover transformative prefigurative politics being practiced at the edges of American society by historically marginalized peoples.

My research interests include the anthropology of space, urban history and urban anthropology, critical theory, ethnography and oral history, geopolitics, prefigurative politics, African American Studies, New Materialism, political philosophy, and the philosophy of history.