Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew is Professor of Political Science and Interim Chair of Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination and a contributing editor at Boston Review.

A Political Education

How do we actually build the institutions Rana wants?

  • Adom Getachew

Reclaiming Populism

A political appeal to “the people” is a central element of democratic societies. Can we imagine a revitalized, multiracial populist politics today?

  • Adom Getachew
with responses from
  • Jason Frank
  • Laura Grattan
  • Ted Fertik & Maurice Mitchell
  • Thea Riofrancos
  • Erin R. Pineda
  • Nikhil Pal Singh

The Private History of Ethiopia’s Wars

Maaza Mengiste’s novels reject grand narratives, offering uncommonly intimate glimpses of dictatorship and displacement.

  • Adom Getachew

Holding Ourselves Responsible

The failures of the UN’s Responsibility to Protect framework.

  • Adom Getachew

When Jamaica Led the Postcolonial Fight Against Exploitation

How the New International Economic Order of the 1970s is inspiring a new generation of struggle against global inequality.

  • Adom Getachew
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