S. Ani Mukherji
S. Ani MukherjiAssociate Professor of American Studies
Joined faculty in 2016
Ph.D., Brown University, 2011 (American Studies)
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1999 (History)
B.A., Cornell University, 1998 (Literature and Social Theory)
Contact Information
Courses Taught
AMST 101: Introduction to American Studies
AMST 201: Methods in American Studies
AMST 221: Immigrant Arts: An Introduction to Asian American Cultures
AMST 222: American Empire
AMST 332: Racial Regimes and Anti-Racist Struggles
AMST 465: Senior Seminar
Publications
Essays
“’From Slavery to Slavery’: I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson’s Lost Moscow Manuscript, Black Radical Traditions, and Opposition to the Segregationist International” (In progress).
With Rachel Ida Buff, "Practices of Academic Freedom and Flowers of Liberation," Journal of Academic Freedom 12 (Fall 2021).
"Racism and the Wisconsin Idea," Boston Review (29 October 2018).
“Reds Among the Sewer Socialists and McCarthyites: The Communist Party in Milwaukee," American Communist History 16:3-4 (2017): 112-142. (doi:10.1080/14743892.2017.1331302)
“‘Like Another Planet to the Darker Americans’: Black Cultural Work in 1930s Moscow,” in Africa in Europe: Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth Century, eds. Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Editor
Co-edited with Rachel Ida Buff, Journal of Academic Freedom 12 (Fall 2021).
Encyclopedia Entries
“Katayama Sen” and “Milwaukee” in Encyclopedia of the American Left, 3rd. Edition, eds. Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas (forthcoming).
Select AAUP-HWS Journalism
"Tears, Anger, Hope, and Fear: Two Years as Chapter President," The Pink Slip (September 2020).