John Ackerman

John Ackerman is an associate professor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at University of Colorado, Boulder, and is jointly affiliated with the departments of communication and English. His research reveals the material history, representation, and performance of neighborhoods, cities, and regions in the US Northeast and Southwest. His current research explicates "doctrines of discovery" and other settler colonial technologies that code and contain white supremacy in urban life and set...See more

John Ackerman is an associate professor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at University of Colorado, Boulder, and is jointly affiliated with the departments of communication and English. His research reveals the material history, representation, and performance of neighborhoods, cities, and regions in the US Northeast and Southwest. His current research explicates "doctrines of discovery" and other settler colonial technologies that code and contain white supremacy in urban life and set the terms and conditions for antiracist and uneven economic recovery and renewal. See less