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Victoria Hattam is a Professor and Chair of Politics at The New School for Social Research, part of The New School university system. She holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT and has held prestigious fellowships including at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the Russell Sage Foundation. Her research focuses on US-Mexico border politics, global political economy, and visual/spatial politics, with affiliations to the Multiple Mobilities Research Cluster.
Education: PhD 1987, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research Interests: Race, migration, and mobility; global political economy; visual, spatial, and material politics. These areas are reflected in her work on border economies, capitalist imaginaries, and the intersection of material culture with political structures. Recent projects include co-directing a Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar on Imagined Mobilities and contributing to Perspecta's Material Imaginaries collaboration.
Awards: Recipient of the 2007 Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association for *In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States*. Recognized as a Fulbright Scholar and Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar.
Teaching & Leadership: Current and past courses include 'Visual/Spatial Politics' (Spring 2026), 'Globalization/Discontents,' and 'Political Imagination.' She leads dissertation guidance and graduate seminars in political economy.
Key Contributions: Authored influential books like *Labor Visions and State Power* (1993) and *Political Creativity* (2013), with articles in *Perspecta*, *Memory Studies*, and *Daedalus*. Her work bridges theoretical frameworks with empirical studies of material culture and institutional change.
