Publications

Book

Teeger, Chana. 2024. “Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools.” New York: Columbia University Press.

Gordon Hirabayashi Book Award, ASA Human Rights Section (Winner)
Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Winner)
Pierre Bourdieu Best Book Award, ASA Sociology of Education Section (Honorable Mention)
Barrington Moore Book Award, ASA Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology (Shortlisted)
C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems (Finalist)
Memory Studies Association First Book Award (Shortlisted)
British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize (Shortlisted)
Featured in LSE Research for the World, LSE Inequalities Blog, Business Day Newspaper
Reviewed in Social Forces, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Harvard Educational Review, British Journal of Sociology

Articles

Teeger, Chana, Livio Silva Muller, and Graziella Moraes Silva. Forthcoming. “How Race Matters for Elite Views on Redistribution” British Journal of Sociology.

Schieferdecker, David, Susanne Reinhardt, Jonathan Mijs, Graziella Moraes Silva, Chana Teeger, Flavio Carvalhaes, and Jeremy Seekings. 2024. “Everyday Conversations about Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda.” Sociology Compass 18(9): 1-12.

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Teeger, Chana. 2023. “(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion.” American Journal of Sociology 129(1): 1-40.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/725803

Outstanding Published Article Award, ASA Peace War and Social Conflict Section
Outstanding Recent Contributions Award, ASA Sociology of Emotions Section
Media coverage: Contexts and Behavioral Scientist Magazine

Knott Eleanor, Aliya Hamid Rao, Kate Summers, and Chana Teeger. 2022. “Interviews in the Social Sciences” Nature Reviews Methods Primers 2(73): 1-15.

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López, Matias, Graziella Moraes Silva, Chana Teeger, and Pedro Marques. 2022. “Economic and Cultural Determinants of Elite Attitudes Towards Redistribution” Socio-Economic Review 22(2): 489-514.

doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaa015

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Teeger, Chana. 2015. “‘Both Sides of the Story’: History Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” American Sociological Review 88(6): 1175-1200.

Outstanding Recent Contributions Award, ASA Sociology of Emotions Section
Best Scholarly Article Award, ASA Human Rights Section
Honorable Mention, Clifford Geertz Award for Best Article, ASA Culture Section
Media coverage: Mail & Guardian, Daily Maverick, The Society Pages

doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122415613078

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Teeger, Chana. 2015. “Ruptures in the Rainbow Nation: How Desegregated South African Schools Deal with Interpersonal and Structural Racism.” Sociology of Education 88(3): 226-243.

doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0038040715591285

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Teeger, Chana. 2014. “Collective Memory and Collective Fear: How South Africans Use the Past to Explain Crime.” Qualitative Sociology 37(1): 69-92.

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Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered and Chana Teeger. 2010. “Unpacking the Unspoken: Silence in Collective Memory and Forgetting.” Social Forces 88(3): 1103-1122.

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Teeger, Chana and Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi. 2007. “Controlling for Consensus: Commemorating Apartheid in South Africa.” Symbolic Interaction 30(1): 57-78.

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Chapters

Moraes Silva, Graziella, Matias López, Elisa Reis, and Chana Teeger. 2022. “Who are the Elite? What do they think about Inequality? And why does it Matter?” pp. 151-174 Katja Hugo and Maggie Carter (Eds.) Between Fault Lines and Front Lines: Shifting Power in an Unequal World. London: Bloomsbury.

Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered and Chana Teeger. 2019. “Silence and Collective Memory” pp. 663-674 in Wayne H. Brekhaus and Gabe Ignatow (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology. Oxford University Press.

Teeger, Chana. 2018. “Transformation as a Matter of State Rather than Degree: Thinking Beyond School Desegregation,” pp. 523-540 in Rob Pattman and Ronelle Carolissen (Eds.) Transforming Transformation in Research and Teaching at South African Universities. Stellenbosch: SUN Press.