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Samuel Shearer is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, with research focusing on urban space in African cities. His work examines how urban design and destruction processes shape popular politics and cultures.
Education includes a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University (2017).
Research interests center on urban design politics, displacement, and capitalist/ecological crises in rapidly urbanizing environments. Current book project The Kigali After examines these dynamics in Rwanda, while new research explores diasporic communities in African sanctuary cities.
Publications show consistent focus on Kigali's urban transformation, examining tensions between development models and local realities through frameworks of political ecology and spatial justice.
Fellowships and awards:
- Fulbright Fellowship
- Social Science Research Council Fellowship
- Divided City Initiative Fellowship
- Mark Steinberg Weil Postdoctoral Fellowship in Urban Humanities
