Chandra Russo

Chandra Russo

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colgate University
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About Chandra

Russo's research focuses on U.S.-based grassroots activism for peace; racial justice; and transnational solidarity. Overarching themes in Russo's writing include solidarity activism; the embodiment of protest; and long-term; high risk tactics in contesting U.S. torture; militarism and immigration policies. Russo spent several years working in immigrant rights organizations in New York; Mexico and Colorado before becoming a researcher.

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Contributions

How Communities Like Springfield, Ohio Can Push Back Against Fear and Racism

Commentary,

How Solidarity Activists Who Fight Injustices against Others Foster Sustained Involvement in Social Movements

Key Findings Brief,

Publications

"Allies Forging Collective Identity: Embodiment and Emotions on the Migrant Trail" Mobilization: An International Journal 19, no. 1 (2014): 67-82.

Contributes to an understanding of collective identity formation among allies. Offers an illustrative case for the important role embodiment plays in the emotions of collective action.

"Solidarity in Practice: Moral Protest and the US Security State" (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Examines how justice-seeking solidarity drives activist communities contesting US torture, militarism and immigration policies.

"Witness against Torture, Guantánamo, and Solidarity as Resistance" Race & Class 58, no. 2 (2016): 4-22.

Explores what it means to refuse the solidarity that detention camps require from the public through an ethnographic examination of Witness against Torture (WAT), a group of U.S. citizens enacting solidarity with the men detained at Guantánamo.