Assistant Professor
Dr. Justin Hosbey is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies and a humanistic social scientist. His ethnographic research explores Black social and cultural life in the U.S. Gulf Coast, the Mississippi Delta, coastal Georgia, and Nicodemus, Kansas. His work centers how Black communities articulate insurgent modes of being to confront capitalism’s recurrent ecological crises. He is also a contributor to the emerging field of Black Ecologies.
His current book project is titled Uneven Recovery: Schools, Prisons and Privatization in Black New Orleans. This book employs multimodal ethnography to trace how the post-Katrina privatization of neighborhood schools into charter schools has critically reconfigured – but not eradicated – working class Black placemaking in New Orleans. His broader research and teaching investigate the cultural and political economy of racism, intramural class relations in Black communities, Neo-Bourbonism, and the Black Radical Tradition.
Justin’s scholarship can be found in Southern Cultures, Antipode, Environment and Planning F, and eLife. He is an Associate Editor of Transforming Anthropology, the Journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists. A proud native of Southwest Atlanta (SWATS), he received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Florida.