Biography
Jacob Kripp is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross. He previously taught at Boston University, Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and at Johns Hopkins University where he received his PhD and was a Postdoctoral Fellow. He was an undergraduate at Holy Cross, class of 2013. He teaches courses on Political Philosophy, War & Peace, and Race & Empire.
Jacob’s research is at the intersection of global political theory, international relations, critical war studies, and interdisciplinary studies of racism and empire. His research focuses on how ideas of war and peace are racialized in world politics in histories and practices of slavery, imperialism, and colonialism. His work has been published in American Political Science Review, European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology, Constellations, Philosophy and Global Af airs, and is forthcoming in Theory & Event.
He is currently working on a book length manuscript, entitled Race War, The Segregationist International, and the Geopolitics of Peace. The book unravels how and why racial segregation came to be imagined as the key to global racial peace from 1898 to 1935. The project untangles how global peace was constructed
as racial segregation through fantasies of global race war. The book demonstrates how racial “peace” entrenched global racial hierarchy through new forms of racial violence and spatial control across scales of international order and produced novel ideas of global race in the process. He is also currently thinking about how war films refract the relationship between race, war, and policing in political culture and society.
Selected Publications
2025. Frantz Fanon, Georges Canguilhem, and Colonial Fascism. Theory & Event, 28(4). 2025. Class War, Race War, and the General Strike. International Political Sociology, 19(2).
2025. The Yellow Peril and the Ontology of the Enemy. European Journal of International Relations, 31(1), pp.101-125.
2022. The creative advance must be defended: Miscegenation, metaphysics, and race war in Jan Smuts’s vision of the League of Nations. American Political Science Review, 116(3), pp.940-953.
2020. Arendt and Glissant on the Politics of Beginning. Constellations, 27(3), pp.509-523.