Jason Mueller

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I completed my M.A. and PhD in the Department of Sociology, at the University of California, Irvine. After that, I remained in California as an instructor of sociology for a year or two, before moving out to Georgia to begin working at KSU!

I maintain an interest in researching and teaching about diverse topics, especially war, human rights, and social protests for racial, Indigenous, economic, and environmental justice, in the US, and abroad.

My published research has covered a wide range of interdisciplinary issues, including political-economy, ideology and social movements in America, critical political theory, and the world-scale drivers of political violence and (under)development in Africa. As a transdisciplinary scholar, my ongoing research explores ways to place sociology in dialoge with other intellectual terrains, such as development studies, critical university studies, psychoanalysis, Africana studies, dialectical philosophy, and more.

For a sample of some of my work, see:

- "Youth Politics and Cognitive Mapping in the United States: From #OKBoomer to #BlackLivesMatter and #CeasefireNow" (2025) https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JU62JUWAUF52PTAB8GD4/full?target=10.1080/10402659.2025.2456169.  

- "Medelacide: The Systematic and Intentional Destruction of Healthcare Infrastructure" (2025) https://doi.org/10.1332/27523349Y2025D000000037. 

- "Theorising Universality in the Modern World-System: The Abstract, The Concrete, and the Case of Botswana" (2024) https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/97QVGUY9DRYVP2ZBAF8A/full?target=10.1080/01436597.2024.2403691.  

- "State Strategy, Diamond Mining, and Indigenous Dispossession in Botswana." (2024). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08969205241252619.    

- "Does the United States owe reparations to Somalia?" (2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968231155358.