Ph.D. Candidate
Chas is a PhD candidate in BU’s Department of Political Science, a Graduate Affiliate of the Center for Innovation in Social Science, and a writer whose essays on politics, work, and culture have been published in Jacobin, The Boston Globe, Truthout, and more. He earned a BA in African-American Studies at Brown University in 2000 and then worked for many years as a community and union organizer in Rhode Island, primarily with SEIU District 1199NE. As a member of the union’s elected leadership, he helped to organize thousands of low-wage workers, developed and coached union members to successfully run for political office, and coordinated grassroots legislative campaigns to end mandatory overtime in hospitals and to extend collective bargaining rights to home-based child care and health care workers. Broadly, his research interests relate to the economic and racial inequalities that shape American politics, and the efforts and strategies of organized groups and social movements to alter this configuration of power. His dissertation is a work of American Political Development focusing on Black workers and the emergence of the public sector union upsurge of the 1960s. His CV and published writings can be found on his website.
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