Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew is an Ethiopian-American political scientist and professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is the author of the award-winning book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019), which centers anticolonial nationalist thought from Africa, the Caribbean, and the African American community. She earned her PhD in Political Science and African-American Studies from Yale University in 2015.