Kristin Hass

Kristin Ann Hass is a Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of

Michigan. She teaches and writes about public memory, place, and race. Her most recent book -

- Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums and Patriotic

Practices -- helps readers to identify, classify, and name elements of our everyday landscapes

that are designed to seem benign but that, in fact, maintain powerful structures of inequity. Her

other books also take up our shared landscapes: Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall is a

study of militarism, race, and war memorials, and Carried to the Wall: American Memory and

the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is an exploration of public memorial practices and the legacies

of the Vietnam War. Hass is also the editor of the Humanities Collaboratory’s Being Human

During COVID, a member of the Detroit River Story Lab team, and a co-founder of Imagining

America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life.