Robyn Kimberley Autry
Associate Professor of Sociology
Public Affairs Center, 313860-685-3092
BS University of Colorado Boulder
MS Univ of Wisconsin Madison
PHD Univ of Wisconsin Madison
Robyn Kimberley Autry
Robyn Autry is a writer and critical sociologist with broad interests in racial identiy, blackness, and memory studies. Her work on the politics of museum development in the US and South Africa has been published in edited volumes and several journals, including Theory & Society and Museum & Society. Her book Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the US and South Africa compares post-apartheid and post-civil rights museum politics (Columbia University Press). She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an associate professor at Wesleyan University
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2020-21 (on leave)