Dr. Al-Bulushi is an Assistant Professor of Global & International Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
His work sits at the intersection of political theory, global political economy, African and African diaspora studies, critical theories of space, and social movements in Africa and the Americas. My current research program includes: a book manuscript examining the afterlife of apartheid geographies in Durban, South Africa; an intellectual history and geography of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and a comparative study of post-2011 uprisings in Africa and the Americas. I am a member of the editorial collective for the journal Antipode, and am a contributing editor for Transforming Anthropology.
He is currently serving as co-director of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar, “Black Reconstruction as a Portal” together with Damien Sojoyner, and as a co-organizer of the Urban Studies Foundation seminar series on “Global Black Geographies” with Priscilla Ferreira, Willie Wright, Adam Bledsoe, Renato Emerson, Gizele Martins, and Fransergio Golart. In 2018, I co-organized a two-day workshop in Baltimore with Willie Wright and Adam Bledsoe on “(anti)Blackness in the American Metropolis.”
Education
PhD, Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA, Program in Literature, Duke University