School of Social and Political Science

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Summing up the series, Professor Vitalis will deliver his keynote lecture on his exciting new project ‘Racism’s Raw Materials.’ 

Robert Vitalis is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on Egypt, oil and Saudi Arabia.  He was awarded the International Theory Prize from the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex for his third book, White World Order, Black Power Politics (Cornell University Press, 2016). In it, he moved away from the Middle East to explore the unwritten history of international relations scholarship in the United States, including those African-American thinkers that challenged the discipline’s racist and imperialist commitments.

Pulitizer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin calls his newest book, Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security that Haunt U.S. Energy Policy (Stanford University Press, 2020), “indispensable to understanding the current moment, showing that moving beyond fossil fuels is more akin to quitting a sect than breaking an addiction.”

In his lecture Professor Vitalis will bring together these concerns by speaking about ‘Racism’s Raw Materials.'

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