• Royce Fellowship
Jane Comaroff
Gordon

Concentration 

History and Judaic Studies

Award Year 

1997

Jane will study the 1968 teachers strike in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. Her work focuses on how the strike evolved into conflict between black and Jewish communities. She hopes that her honors thesis will provide insights into contemporary problems facing schools.

Jane is now an Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies. She is a specialist in political theory, with a focus on modern and contemporary political theory, Africana political thought, theories of enslavement, political theories of education, methodologies in the social sciences, and political theory in film and literature. Her first book, Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict over Community Control in Ocean Hill-Brownsville (RoutledgeFalmer 2001), was inspired by her Royce research and was listed by the Gotham Gazette as one of the four best recent books on civil rights.