Rashad Arman Timmons, PhD (he/him) is a scholar and educator from Detroit, Michigan, the ancestral and present homelands of the Anishinaabe. He teaches and writes broadly about race and urban infrastructure in the United States, specifically Black people's longstanding use of the built environment to imagine a free and just world. Rashad earned his Ph.D. in African American and African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, where he researched the violent and racist history of infrastructural development (e.g., railways, roads, telecommunications) and policing in Ferguson, Missouri. Rashad is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara, where he is writing a book about Ferguson, infrastructural violence, and social justice.
