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Aaron Foote is an urban sociologist and community activist from Flint, Michigan. His research examines the social, political, and economic factors that led to the Flint Water Crisis, specifically detailing how state and suburban actors sought to take over water rights in Southeast Michigan, ultimately leading to the poisoning of tens of thousands of Flint residents. Dr. Foote’s research centers the lived experiences of the thousands of families who fought back against the colonial revanchist project in Flint that forever altered their lives. More broadly, Professor Foote is interested in how colonial revanchism will reshape Black urban assets and communities in cities all over the world.

 

In the classroom, Aaron engages students through open, thoughtful discourse, experiential learning, and learning-by-doing to connect students’ individual understandings to larger social systems and processes that help create our social world. Professor Foote challenges students to interrogate what they believe to be true, through evidence-based inquiry, in the hopes this will help students generate new ideas and perspectives and prepare them to be stewards of a more equitable society.