Past Member
Lawrie Balfour
Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member
Affiliation
Social Science
Field of Study
Politics (Political Theory), African American Studies, American Studies
Website
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How should we understand freedom? How should we understand freedom in the shadow of racial slavery and colonialism? For Toni Morrison, these questions are concrete, urgent, conjoined. Lawrie Balfour’s project advances a fresh understanding of modern freedom by drawing from Morrison’s deep reservoir of words that are “unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.”
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Social Science
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Degrees
Princeton University
Ph.D.
1996
Honors
2020-21
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship