Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, Africana Studies, American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Metropolitan Studies. Ph.D. 2007 (Anthropology), University of Chicago; M.A. 2002 (Anthropology), University of Chicago; B.A. 2000 (Africana Studies) Morris Brown College.
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Areas of Research/Interest: Neoliberalism, globalization, postcolonialism, diaspora, youth, crime, citizenship, sovereignty, security, labor, politics, sports.
Select Publications: Manuscripts “National
Security”: Youth, Crime, Citizenship, and Sovereignty, in Senegal
(forthcoming)
Benjamin Eastman, Michael Ralph, and Sean Brown,
eds.2008.America’s Game(s): A
Critical
Anthropology of Sport.London: Routledge.
Articles
Michael Ralph. 2009. ‘Commodity.’ Social Text 100 27(3): 78-84.
Michael Ralph. 2009. ‘Diaspora.’ Social Text 100 27(3): 94-101.
Michael Ralph. 2009. ‘Hip hop.’ Social Text 100 27(3): 141-146.
Michael Ralph.2009.“Barack Obama is (not) who you think he is.”The
Sixties: A
Journal of History, Politics, and Culture.’2(2): 76-77.
Michael Ralph.2009.“Thief’s Theme.”South
Atlantic Quarterly 108(8): 541-562.
Michael
Ralph.2009.“‘It’s hard out here for a pimp…with…a whole
lot of bitches jumpin’ ship’: Navigating black politics in the wake of
Katrina.”Public Culture 21(2): 341-374.
Michael Ralph.2008.“Killing time.”Social Text 26(4): 1-29.
Michael Ralph.2007.‘“Crimes of History”:
Senegalese Soccer and the Forensics of
Slavery.’Souls
9(3): 193-222.
Michael Ralph.2007.‘Prototype: In Search of
the Perfect Senegalese Basketball
Physique.’The
International Journal of the History of Sport 24(2): 311-316.
Michael Ralph.2007.‘Epilogue: It was all a
dream.’ The International Journal of the
History
of Sport 24(2): 238-263.
Michael Ralph.2006.‘“Flirt[ing] with death but
“still alive”: The sexual dimensions of
surplus time in hip hop
fantasy.’Cultural Dynamics 18(1): 61-88.
Michael Ralph.2006.‘“Le Sénégal qui Gagne”:
Soccer and the Stakes of Neoliberalism
in a Postcolonial Port.’Soccer
and Society 7(2-3): 300-317.
Michael Ralph.2005.‘Oppressive Impressions,
Architectural Expressions: The poetics
of French colonial
(ad)vantage, regarding Africa.’In African
Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective.Steve Salm and Toyin Falola, eds.Univ. of Rochester Press, pp. 22-48.
Michael Ralph.2005.Review of Wilson J. Moses’ Afrotopia, Transforming
