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Chana Teeger

@cteeger.bsky.social
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Sociologist and Assoc Prof at LSE Dept of Methodology researching race, education, collective memory, inequality, and elites. ** NEW BOOK: Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools (Columbia University Press) **

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Huge congratulations to @cteeger.bsky.social‬ for winning the Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Human Rights Section with her book, Distancing the Past 🎉✨ @columbiaup.bsky.social‬ 👉
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Distancing the Past | Columbia University Press
Shortlisted, 2025 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, British Sociological AssociationShortlisted, 2025 MSA First Book Award, Memory Studies AssociationFinalist, 2... | CUP
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
👏Congratulations to @cteeger.bsky.social, whose‬ article "(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion" has won the Recent Contributions Award from the Sociology of Emotions Section of the @asanews.bsky.social‬ 🏆 Read the article here ➡️ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
excerpt from Chana Teeger's article, (Not) feeling the past: boredom as a racialised emotion.
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Chana Teeger @cteeger.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Thank you @hannahcastner.bsky.social for this generous review of DISTANCING THE PAST 📚
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Chana Teeger @cteeger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Thank you @bhbradlow.bsky.social for this incredibly generous review of my book!
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Chana Teeger @cteeger.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thank you to Kabelo Khumalo at Business Day for discussing research from my new book, DISTANCING THE PAST, which shows how history lessons are teaching young South Africans to ignore racial inequality in the present: www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...
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SA’s history education masks apartheid’s true impact, LSE scholar says
Professor says the way in which the past is taught distances it from young people’s everyday lives
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Dr Chana Teeger has written for @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the history of apartheid is taught in South African schools⤵️ #PartofLSE
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
On the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog, Chana Teeger @lsemethodology.bsky.social looks at how the history of #apartheid is taught in #SouthAfrican schools, arguing that framing it as firmly in the past ignores its persistent legacies of racism and unequal power relations.
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Why history lessons are so threatening to those with power
If students are taught that the racism of the past is done and dusted, then it follows that there is nothing left to do – no policies left to enact. But if the playing field today is not equal – if…
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you are writing your PhD within the expansive realm of memory studies, this might be a call for you: www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/call-fo...
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Call for Papers Mnemonics 2025: Memory and Responsibility | Mnemonics
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Chana Teeger @cteeger.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
📚 Why are history lessons so threatening to those with power? Read my blog post, out now in the #LSEInequalitiesBlog @lsemethodology.bsky.social
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