Rate My Professor Karida Brown

Karida L. Brown is a Professor of Sociology at Emory University. A historical and cultural sociologist, her research centers on ontologies of race, racialization, and racism, exploring how racial difference is invented, rationalized, and imposed under racial capitalism and how racialized peoples remake themselves amid systemic racism. Her work spans migration, education, collective memory, social theory, W.E.B. Du Bois, community archives, and public arts. Brown holds a PhD in Sociology from Brown University (2016; winner of the 2017 American Sociological Association Best Dissertation Award), an MA in Sociology from Brown University (2012), an MPA in Government from the University of Pennsylvania (2009), and a BBA in Risk Management from Temple University (2004). Her academic career includes prior roles as Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at UCLA (2021-present; tenured and promoted to full professor), Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at UCLA (2016-2021), Visiting Assistant Research Professor of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill (2017-2018), Visiting Diane Nash Descendants of Emancipation Chair and Director of the John Lewis Center for Social Justice at Fisk University (2021-2022). She also served as Director of Racial Equity & Action for the Los Angeles Lakers (2020-2022) and held underwriting positions at Zurich North America and AIG earlier in her career.