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Sociology and Anthropology Department Africana Studies Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis     Fields: Racism, colonialism, enslaving

Melissa F. Weiner is a Professor of Sociology. She received her BA in Sociology and BS in Journalism from Boston University (2000) and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (2006). She has been affiliated with the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (Ercomer) at Utrecht University and the National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee) in Amsterdam. Her work, rooted in critical race and decolonial scholarship, identifies and theorizes white supremacist mechanisms of racism and colonialism in the US and internationally.

Recent books

 (Lexington Books, 2018)

 (Rutgers, 2010)

Selected publications

Melissa Weiner. 2022.  "Unfreedom: Enslaving in New Jersey through Gradual Abolition and Emancipation." Slavery & Abolition 43(3): 613-631.() 

Melissa F. Weiner. 2018. “: W.E.B. DuBois’s Foundational Theoretical and Methodological Contributions.”&�Բ�����;Sociology Compass 12(5): 1-15.

Melissa F. Weiner. 2016. “: Racializing Discourses of Africa and Africans in Dutch Primary School History Textbooks.”&�Բ�����;Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2(4): 450-465.

Melissa F. Weiner. 2016. “: The Silencing, Disparagement, and Discipline of Students of Color.”&�Բ�����;Race, Ethnicity, and Education 19(6): 1351-1367. 

Melissa F. Weiner. 2015. “ White Cultural Discourses in a Diverse Amsterdam Primary School.”&�Բ�����;Ethnic and Racial Studies 38(2): 359-376.

Melissa F. Weiner. 2014. “ Racial Neoliberalism, Social Forgetting and Scientific Colonialism  in Dutch Primary School History Textbooks.” DuBois Review 11(2): 329-351.

Melissa F. Weiner. 2012. "" Sociology Compass 6(4): 332-350

Melissa F. Weiner. 2010. “ Silence and Voice in Mainstream and Ethnic Press Accounts of African American Protest.”&�Բ�����;Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change 31: 297-324.

Ryan D. King and Melissa F. Weiner. 2007. “.”&�Բ�����;Social Problems 54(1): 45-72.