Chana Teeger
@cteeger.bsky.social
Sociologist and Assoc Prof at LSE Dept of Methodology
researching race, education, collective memory, inequality, and elites.
** NEW BOOK: Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools (Columbia University Press) **
researching race, education, collective memory, inequality, and elites.
** NEW BOOK: Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools (Columbia University Press) **
Reposted by Chana Teeger
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September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗
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Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
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Huge congratulations to @cteeger.bsky.social for winning the Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Human Rights Section with her book, Distancing the Past 🎉✨
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Distancing the Past | Columbia University Press
Shortlisted, 2025 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, British Sociological AssociationShortlisted, 2025 MSA First Book Award, Memory Studies AssociationFinalist, 2... | CUP
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June 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Huge congratulations to @cteeger.bsky.social for winning the Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Human Rights Section with her book, Distancing the Past 🎉✨
@columbiaup.bsky.social
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@columbiaup.bsky.social
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👏Congratulations to @cteeger.bsky.social, whose article "(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion" has won the Recent Contributions Award from the Sociology of Emotions Section of the @asanews.bsky.social 🏆
Read the article here ➡️ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Read the article here ➡️ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
June 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
👏Congratulations to @cteeger.bsky.social, whose article "(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion" has won the Recent Contributions Award from the Sociology of Emotions Section of the @asanews.bsky.social 🏆
Read the article here ➡️ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Read the article here ➡️ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Thank you @hannahcastner.bsky.social for this generous review of DISTANCING THE PAST 📚
"This compelling book helps us understand how the way we teach history, particularly hard history, has very real consequences for students who are 'future voters and decision-makers.'" —@hannahcastner.bsky.social on DISTANCING THE PAST by @cteeger.bsky.social https://bit.ly/42cb16x
June 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Thank you @hannahcastner.bsky.social for this generous review of DISTANCING THE PAST 📚
Thank you @bhbradlow.bsky.social for this incredibly generous review of my book!
My review of @cteeger.bsky.social's excellent Distancing The Past, just published in Social Forces.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
May 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Thank you @bhbradlow.bsky.social for this incredibly generous review of my book!
Thank you to Kabelo Khumalo at Business Day for discussing research from my new book, DISTANCING THE PAST, which shows how history lessons are teaching young South Africans to ignore racial inequality in the present:
www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...
www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...
SA’s history education masks apartheid’s true impact, LSE scholar says
Professor says the way in which the past is taught distances it from young people’s everyday lives
www.businesslive.co.za
January 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Thank you to Kabelo Khumalo at Business Day for discussing research from my new book, DISTANCING THE PAST, which shows how history lessons are teaching young South Africans to ignore racial inequality in the present:
www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...
www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...
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Dr Chana Teeger has written for @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the history of apartheid is taught in South African schools⤵️
#PartofLSE
#PartofLSE
On the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog, Chana Teeger
@lsemethodology.bsky.social looks at how the history of
#apartheid is taught in #SouthAfrican schools, arguing that framing it as firmly in the past ignores its persistent legacies of racism and unequal power relations.
@lsemethodology.bsky.social looks at how the history of
#apartheid is taught in #SouthAfrican schools, arguing that framing it as firmly in the past ignores its persistent legacies of racism and unequal power relations.
Why history lessons are so threatening to those with power
If students are taught that the racism of the past is done and dusted, then it follows that there is nothing left to do – no policies left to enact. But if the playing field today is not equal – if…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Dr Chana Teeger has written for @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the history of apartheid is taught in South African schools⤵️
#PartofLSE
#PartofLSE
Reposted by Chana Teeger
On the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog, Chana Teeger
@lsemethodology.bsky.social looks at how the history of
#apartheid is taught in #SouthAfrican schools, arguing that framing it as firmly in the past ignores its persistent legacies of racism and unequal power relations.
@lsemethodology.bsky.social looks at how the history of
#apartheid is taught in #SouthAfrican schools, arguing that framing it as firmly in the past ignores its persistent legacies of racism and unequal power relations.
Why history lessons are so threatening to those with power
If students are taught that the racism of the past is done and dusted, then it follows that there is nothing left to do – no policies left to enact. But if the playing field today is not equal – if…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
On the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog, Chana Teeger
@lsemethodology.bsky.social looks at how the history of
#apartheid is taught in #SouthAfrican schools, arguing that framing it as firmly in the past ignores its persistent legacies of racism and unequal power relations.
@lsemethodology.bsky.social looks at how the history of
#apartheid is taught in #SouthAfrican schools, arguing that framing it as firmly in the past ignores its persistent legacies of racism and unequal power relations.
Reposted by Chana Teeger
If you are writing your PhD within the expansive realm of memory studies, this might be a call for you: www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/call-fo...
Call for Papers Mnemonics 2025: Memory and Responsibility | Mnemonics
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January 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you are writing your PhD within the expansive realm of memory studies, this might be a call for you: www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/call-fo...
📚 Why are history lessons so threatening to those with power? Read my blog post, out now in the #LSEInequalitiesBlog @lsemethodology.bsky.social
“By teaching students that racism is in the past, these lessons also taught black students not to talk about the racism they experience in the present” – @cteeger.bsky.social on how history is taught in South African schools #LSEInequalitiesBlog
Why history lessons are so threatening to those with power
If students are taught that the racism of the past is done and dusted, then it follows that there is nothing left to do – no policies left to enact. But if the playing field today is not equal – if…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
📚 Why are history lessons so threatening to those with power? Read my blog post, out now in the #LSEInequalitiesBlog @lsemethodology.bsky.social