Black Hawk Hancock

Black Hawk Hancock received his BA in English and Philosophy from the University of California Berkeley, and his MA (Sociology) and PhD (Sociology) from the University of Wisconsin Madison. His research and teaching interests, are just as influenced by Cultural Studies, Continental Philosophy, and Literary Theory, as they are by Sociology, and run the gamut from race, ethnicity, and culture, to biopolitics, climate change, and immigration/migration. He is the author of Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination (Chicago 2013), co-author, with Roberta Garner of Changing Theories: New Directions in Social Theory (Toronto 2009), and World Disrupted: Sociology of the Future (Routledge forthcoming). His work has appeared in a wide range of academic journals, including The American Sociologist, Ethnography, The History of Human Sciences, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, and Sociological Perspectives, amongst others. From 2019-2022, he served as Co-Editor of Sociological Perspectives.