Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of specialization: Critical War Studies, Historical International Relations, Global Political Theory, Racial Conflict
Dr. Jacob Kripp is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston University. He previously taught at Trinity College in Hartford, CT and at Johns Hopkins University where he received his PhD and was a Postdoctoral Fellow. At Boston University, he will teach classes on War, Peace, Racism, Memory, and International Relations.
Jacob’s research is at the intersection of Critical War Studies, Historical International Relations, Global Political Theory, and interdisciplinary studies of racism and empire. His research focuses on how ideas of war and peace are composed alongside the production of racial difference. His work has been published in American Political Science Review, Constellations, Philosophy and Global Affairs, and is forthcoming in Theory & Event.
He is currently working on two book length manuscripts. The first, entitled Race War, Racial Segregation, and Global Peace, unravels how and why racial segregation came to be imagined as the key to global racial peace in white world order from 1898 to 1935. Untangling how the idea of global peace was constructed through anxieties of global race war, this project demonstrates how racial “peace” entrenched global racial hierarchy through new forms of racial violence and spatial control across scales of international order. The second book project, entitled The Martial University, explores the reciprocal and mutually co-constitutive relations between imperial warfare and knowledge production in the early Cold War. This project tracks how the transformation of warfare into a mathematically calculable science dovetailed with new visions of higher education, weapons research, imaginaries of racialized combat in the Korean War, and structures of military Keynesianism within and beyond the university.