Jishnu Guha-Majumdar

Jishnu Guha-Majumdar was the 2020-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Studies at Queen’s University and was appointed Assistant Professor in Political Science at Butler University in 2021. His research examines the intertwined development of the concepts of race and species and the intersections between critical race and animal studies. Jishnu received his Ph.D. in Political Theory from Johns Hopkins University’s Political Science Department. Jishnu is working on a book manuscript, An Infinite Scream Passing Through Nature: Race, Animality, and Vulnerability, that contests the dominance of "voice" and "speech" as grammars for political inclusion and develops alternative figures of the cry and the scream to account for human and nonhuman vulnerability. He obtained a B.A. in History from the University of Texas-Austin in 2013. Jishnu’s publications have addressed topics like critical race theory and literature, animals in political theory, the relationship between black studies and animal studies, and the politics of veganism.