Speaker Series: Jack Jin Gary Lee

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Dr. Jack Jin Gary Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research.

Gary’s scholarship explores how race, gender, and law shape the social logics and processes of statecraft and governance in modern empires and (post)colonial states. He is working on a book, Unsettling Direct Rule, on the significance of law and difference in the making of “direct rule” in the modern British Empire. Focusing on the reconstitution of Jamaica and the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang and Malacca) as Crown Colonies in the nineteenth century, this project examines the structures, practices, and mythologies of “direct rule” in relation to colonies marked as “plural societies.”