Dr Chana Teeger

"At its core, my research [into how young people in South Africa learn about the country's apartheid past and think about race and inequality in the present] grapples with the question of how people understand the causes of—and potential remedies for—inequality."
- Dr Chana Teeger reflects on the key interest in her current research as part of our 30th Anniversary celebrations. Read the full close-up with Methodology faculty.

Chana Teeger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Methodology and a Faculty Associate of the . She completed her PhD in Sociology at Harvard University in 2013. Prior to joining the LSE in 2016, she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Sociology Department at the University of Johannesburg.

Research Interests

Chana’s work broadly examines how people understand the causes and consequences of inequality, as well as what policies they are willing to endorse to remedy it. She is currently working on three related projects:

(1) A study of how young South Africans, born into democracy, learn about their country’s apartheid past in school. Her book, Distancing the Past: How History Lessons Teach Young South Africans to Ignore Racial Inequality in the Present is forthcoming in July 2024 with Columbia University Press.

(2) A project on how elites in Brazil and South Africa think about inequality and redistribution (with Graziella Moraes Silva, Matias López, and Livio Silva Muller).

(3) A VW Foundation-funded cross-national project on how people talk about wealth inequality (with David Schieferdecker, Flavio Alex de Oliveira Carvalhaes, Jonathan Mijs, and Jeremy Seekings).

For more information, visit https://www.chanateeger.com/