Fabio Rojas is Virginia L. Roberts Professor of Sociology at

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. He is the author of several sociological books, and starting with the first issue (Winter Issue) of 2018, he will be the co-editor of ''

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'' magazine with Rashawn Ray. Rojas has also made contributions to ''

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'', ''

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'', and has been interviewed and appeared on

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, and '' Vox'' magazine.

Career

Rojas graduated from the

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with a Ph.D. in Sociology in 2003 and began teaching as a professor of sociology at Indiana University – Bloomington. He is the author of ''From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline