Kato Memorial Lecture: Prof Nikhil Pal Singh

Prof Nikhil Pal Singh will be delivering the 2025 Kato Memorial Lecture. The annual lecture hosted by the Department of Politics and International relations, is in honour of our late colleague, Dr Daniel Kato (1974-2019), and of his work on US Politics, racismand the carceral state.

Nikhil Pal Singh is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU, who works at the intersection of contemporary US history and political theory. His first book, Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy, published by Harvard University Press in 2004 was recognized as the best book in US civil rights history by the Organization of American Historians. ace and America’s Long War, Professor Singh’s second book, an examination of the relationship between race, war and policing in US domestic life and overseas conflict, was published by University of California Press in 2017. His third book, Reconstructing Democracy, a collection of essays on US black intellectual history is forthcoming from the University of California Press.