George Barganier

George Barganier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Studies and Affiliate Faculty in the Graduate College of Education where he specializes in decolonial theory and the Black Radical Tradition. He received his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley where he subsequently held a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Ethnic Studies. Dr. Barganier's work primarily centers around the intersecting themes of (de)colonization, knowledge production and the exigency to transcend these problems from the subaltern space(s) of Black radicalism. His current project, Fanon’s Children: The Military Defeat of the Black Panther Party and the Rise of the Crips and Bloods, examines the development of Black political consciousness amongst Los Angeles area street organizations. Dr. Barganier has served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is an Affiliate Faculty member of the Black Europe Summer School at the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam. He is the coauthor (with Elizabeth Brown) of Race and Crime: Geographies of Injustice (University of California Press, 2018) and serves as the Ambassador of International Affairs for the Prisoners of Conscience Committee.