Heidi Nicholls
Johns Hopkins University Postdoctoral Fellow
Baltimore, MD
I am a sociologist of race, U.S. empire, and settler colonialism. I received my Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Virginia in 2022. I am currently a Mellon funded
Black Beyond Data postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University and a
Council on Library and Information Resources postdoctoral fellow. My research can be found in
Political Power and Social Theory, Sociology Compass, and Humanity and Society. I am also the managing editor for the journal
Humanity and Society. ARTICLES
Nicholls, Heidi. (2022). "Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States’ relationship to whiteness"
Sociology Compass, e13017.
http://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13017Nicholls, Heidi. (2021), "Colonial and Decolonial Resignification: US Empire-state Sovereignty in Hawai‘i", White, A.I.R. and King, K.Q. (Ed.)
Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism (
Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 38), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 191-220.
https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-871920210000038010
Nicholls, Heidi (2023), “Citizen, Subject, Human: For a Humanist Sociology at the End of the Eurocene”
Humanity & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231160520AUDIO DOCUMENTARY
Nicholls, Heidi and Matt Ito. 2020. “
Kū Kiaʻi Mauna: Mauna Kea, Protecting the Sacred, and the Thirty Meter Telescope.”
Religion, Race and Democracy Lab. University of Virginia.
https://heidinicholls.weebly.com/
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