Ricarda Hammer

Ricarda Hammer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work bridges colonialism, postcolonialism, empire, and race with a focus on the Caribbean as a site of global historical transformation.

• Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
• Co-leader of the Anticolonial Lab (with Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz and Tianna Paschel)
• Former Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research Interests:

• Anticolonial Politics
• Imperial Legacies
• Racial Capitalism
• Caribbean Studies
• Radical Democracy
• Black Atlantic Thought

Article Trends: Ricarda's recent publications emphasize the intersections of colonial history, racial capitalism, and radical anticolonial theory. Her work increasingly incorporates Du Boisian frameworks and examines the erasure of Caribbean revolutionary imaginaries from European political genealogies.

Labs & Teams: At Berkeley, Ricarda co-leads the Anticolonial Lab, which investigates global anticolonial solidarity movements with special attention to the Caribbean and Bay Area resistance networks.