Michael is Director of the Center for Africana Studies' Marginalized Populations project.
He is a specialist in comparative politics with particular interest in contemporary political theory, encompassing themes of nationalism, racism, xenophobia and citizenship.
Michael has been a visiting scholar at the WEB DuBois Institute, Harvard University, Universitaria Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Universidade de Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, University of Cartagena, Instituto Gramsci, Milan, University of Ghana, Legon, University of Vienna, and Sciences Po in Paris.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
The Spectre of Race Princeton, 2018
Winner of APSA’s 2019 Ralph J Bunche Award for the best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism. Named one of the Ten Best Books in 2018 by London's Times Educational Supplement.
Party/Politics OUP, 2006
Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil
Duke, 1999 (editor)
Orpheus and Power
Princeton, 1994
