Seema Sohi is associate professor of ethnic studies and a faculty affiliate in the department of history at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America (Oxford University Press, 2014), which examines the anticolonial politics of South Asian intellectuals and migrant workers in North America during the early 20th century. She has published essays and articles in the Journal of American History, Sikh Formations, Amerasia, and the Journal of Modern European History, as well as in the anthologies The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (New York University Press, 2013) and Asian American Literature in Transition (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Her project, "We Are Each Other’s Magnitude and Bond: A History of Climate Justice from Warren County to the Sunrise Movement,” will investigate the intersection of the climate crisis, democracy, and political polarization. The first comprehensive history of the climate justice movement in the United States, it centers the work of Black, Indigenous, Latina, and Asian American women who have been unrecognized in environmental history, and yet who have played a leading role in the struggle to advance climate justice and, with it, the struggle to realize the promises of a multiracial and sustainable American democracy.
May 2024
