Camilla Hawthorne
PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 2018
Sociology, African Diaspora, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Immigration, Activism, Discrimination and Inequality, Labor and Social Movements
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Dr. Hawthorne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). Her teaching focuses on race, immigration, and citizenship; political economy; Black geographies; subjectivity and identity; and social theory. She is a principal faculty member in UCSC’s Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program. Additionally, she co-directs the Black Geographies Lab at UCSC and is co-editor of the edited volumes The Black Mediterranean (2021) and The Black Geographic (2023). She is the Past Chair of the American Association of Geographer’s Black Geographies Specialty Group and serves on the editorial boards of Environmental Planning D: Society & Space and California Italian Studies. Dr. Hawthorne is project manager and faculty member of the Black Europe Summer School, a two-week intensive course on citizenship, race, and the Black diaspora in Europe that is held each summer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her monograph in 2022 titled "Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean" explores the politics of Blackness and citizenship in Italy.