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Kristin Plys is Associate Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed with the Department of History, Culinaria (UTSC), and the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities (UTM). She is also the J. Clawson Mills Scholar in the Director's Office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 2023–24.
Education:
- PhD in Sociology, Yale University
- BA (with honors), Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Kristin Plys specializes in political economy, colonialism, racialization, and historical methodology. Her work critically examines dictatorship in the 1970s Global South, histories of café culture, labor history, and the intersections of poetry, visual art, and politics in postcolonial contexts. She is particularly interested in how cultural spaces like coffee houses and tea houses serve as sites of resistance and political theorizing.
Her recent publications reflect a deep engagement with anti-colonial Marxism, antifascist theory, and global leftist movements, especially in South Asia and the Mediterranean. Her monograph Brewing Resistance (2020) received the Global Sociology Book Award, and her co-authored book Capitalism and its Uncertain Future (2022) was honored with an honorable mention for the PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award.
Awards and Recognition:
- Global Sociology Book Award, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2020)
- PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award – Honorable Mention (2022)
Grants and Fellowships: Kristin Plys has held visiting positions at Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen (Germany), Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), Centre for Development Studies (India), and Lahore University of Management Sciences (Pakistan). She was a research specialist at Princeton University before her PhD.
Lab and Affiliations: She is affiliated with multiple interdisciplinary centers at the University of Toronto, including Culinaria Research Centre at UTSC and the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities at UTM, fostering collaborative research on food, culture, and postcolonial studies.
