Damani J. Partridge has published broadly on questions of citizenship, urban futures, decoloniality, sexuality, post-Cold War “freedom,” Holocaust memorialization, African-American military occupation, Global Blackness, anti-Blackness, the culture and politics of “fair trade,” and the Obama moment in Berlin. He currently directs the Filming Future Cities Project in Detroit and Berlin and has worked on documentaries for private and public broadcasters in the United States and Canada. His books include Hypersexuality and headscarves: Race, sex, and citizenship in the new Germany (Indiana University Press, 2012) and Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Politics, and Black Power in Berlin (University of California Press, 2023).
Partridge will be a Whitney J. Oates Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Anthropology in Fall 2024. He will teach the undergraduate seminar “Filming the Future of Liberation.”
