Chandra Russo

Associate Professor of Sociology; Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Department/Office Information

Sociology and Anthropology

416 Alumni Hall

crusso@colgate.edu (315) 228-6420

Education

BA, Vassar College
MA, University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

Research and Teaching Interests

Social Movements, Race and Racisms, Neoliberal Globalization, Environmental Justice, Embodiment and Health

Select Publications

2025. “Beyond the book club: white antiracist organizing before and after the 2024 election.” Ethnic and Racial Studies.
2024. “White Privilege . . . Is Not an Organizing Strategy”: Shifting Frameworks in White People’s Antiracist Efforts. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
2023. “White People’s Activism in US- based Social Movements for Racial Justice.” Sociology Compass.
2021. “Cities of Fruit: Arts Intervention and the Radical Imagination.” American Quarterly. 73(4): 793-815.
2021. “The Art of Care: Urban Oppositional Practices and the Case of the Guerrilla Grafters.” CITY: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action. 25(1-2): 7-26.
2016. “Witness Against Torture, Guantánamo, and Solidarity as Resistance.” Chandra Russo. Race & Class. October. **lead article
2014. “Allies Forging Collective Identity: Embodiment and Emotions on the Migrant Trail.” Chandra Russo. Mobilization: An International Journal. 19(1): 67-82.

2023. “Embodied Vulnerability and Sense-Making with Solidarity Activists” in Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Materiality. Edited by Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman. University of Bristol Press.
2019. "Solidarity protests of US security policy: Interrupting racial and imperial affects through ritual mourning." Chandra Russo. Global Raciality: Empire, Postcoloniality, Decoloniality. Edited by in Paola Bacchetta and Sunaina Maira. Routledge.
2017. "The pitfalls and promises of climate action plans: transformative adaptation as resilience strategy in US cities." Chandra Russo and Andrew Pattison. Resilience, Environmental Justice and the City. Edited by Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Manuel Vallee and Beatrice Frank. Routledge.
2016. “Climate Action Planning: An Intersectional Approach to The Urban Equity Dilemma.” Chandra Russo and Andrew Pattison. Systemic Crises: Race, Class, Gender and Global Climate Change. Edited by Phoebe Godfrey and Denise Torres. Routledge.

Courses Taught