About

AJ Rice is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a former President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Political Science (2021-2022). AJ completed his PhD in African American and African Studies with a specialization in Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University (MSU) and received his Masters Degree in Politics from the New School for Social Research. His research examines the intersections of capitalism and Black politics in US Cities.

Previously, AJ served as a Visiting Instructor at the James Madison College at MSU from 2016-2020. In 2019, he was selected as an inaugural fellow for the Transdisciplinary Graduate Fellows Program at the Center for Interdisciplinarity at MSU. His work has been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society; Text and Performance Quarterly; the Journal of Cultural Geography; and the Popular Culture Studies Journal.

AJ is originally from Metro Detroit.

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