Founded in 2020, the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences responds to the unique positionality of the city as a hub for international thought with global calls to bring to the center of academic scholarship perspectives and understandings of scholars across the Global South and North.
Our work is to consistently promote and remind ourselves and our communities of the rich, vivid, and ongoing knowledge that has been produced and is being produced by scholars in our communities, across the social sciences and humanities. Because from our perspectives, a critical step towards treating each other and each other’s communities with greater dignity and humanity in all aspects of life is to acknowledge our communities as pillars of knowledge about ourselves and the world around us.
Miami Institute Posts
An Interview with the Thomas Sankara Center in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
By: T.D. Harper Shipman, Inem Richardson, Fatou Balora, and Wendlassida Simporé
On Becoming Human: Post-Nationalism and Radical Feminism in Africa: Patricia McFadden in conversation with T.D. Harper-Shipman
By T.D. Harper-Shipman and Patricia McFadden
Learning Disobedience: a conversation with Patricia Daley & Amber Murrey-Ndewa
By T.D. Harper-Shipman, Patricia Daley, and Amber Murrey-Ndewa
From the Belly of the Beast: Introducing the ‘Reckoning with Empires’ Forum
By T.D. Harper-Shipman
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