Bio
Professor Kusow’s research interests include the contemporary African diaspora, social transformation and social change in Africa, black immigrants in North America, racial formation, and methodology. His work appeared in flagship journals like Symbolic Interaction, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Migration and Ethnic Studies, Critical Sociology, The Sociological Quarterly, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, and in The New Americans: A Handbook to Immigration Since 1965, edited by Mary Waters and Reed Ueda, Harvard University Press. Professor Kusow has given invited keynote speeches at many national and international universities, including Ohio State University, Aalborg University, Denmark, York University, Canada, and Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. He was an invited speaker at the 2017 Doha Forum. Professor Kusow is founding Co-editor of the Journal of Somali Studies, 2014-2021, https://journals.co.za/content/journal/aa_joss), and served as the Vice chair of the Somali Studies International Congress, 2007-2017. He is Appointed Member, International Scientific Committee of the Slave Route Project: Resistance, Liberty, and Heritage, appointed by the Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, UNESCO 2017-2021, 2022-2027. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/slave-route/the-international-scientific-committee/.