Robyn Autry

Robyn Autry is a writer and critical sociologist with broad interests in racial identity, Blackness and memory studies. Her work on the politics of museum development in the U.S. and South Africa has been published in edited volumes and several journals, including Theory & Society and Museum & Society. Her book Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the U.S. and South Africa compares post-apartheid and post-civil rights museum politics (Columbia University Press). She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.