Manu Karuka

Chair and Associate Professor of American Studies, also affiliated with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College.

Department

American Studies

Contact

mkaruka@barnard.edu

Manu Karuka

Associate Professor of American Studies and Department Chair

Manu Karuka is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Barnard College, where he has taught since 2014. He studies imperialism and national liberation, and he teaches courses on American studies, W.E.B. Du Bois, Indigenous critiques of political economy, liberation, and Third World studies. He is the author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019). With Juliana Hu Pegues and Alyosha Goldstein he co-edited a special issue of Theory & Event, “On Colonial Unknowing,” (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2016) and with Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, and Sujani Reddy, he co-edited The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (NYU Press, 2013).