Gregory Jerome Hampton

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Gregory Jerome Hampton is a scholar whose work sits at a provocative and timely intersection of African American studies, science fiction, and cultural theory. Best known for his interdisciplinary monograph *Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot* (2015), Hampton has established himself as a pioneering voice in examining the deep historical and philosophical connections between human slavery and the cultural imagination of artificial beings. His scholarship challenges readers to confront uncomfortable parallels between the dehumanization of enslaved people and contemporary representations of robots and technology in popular media, asking urgent questions about power, autonomy, and what it means to be human. With nearly 50 citations across versions of this foundational work, Hampton's research has resonated strongly within academic communities spanning literary studies, cultural criticism, and science and technology studies. His ability to bridge historical trauma with futuristic speculation makes his contributions particularly valuable for students and researchers grappling with race, representation, and emerging technologies. Hampton's work ultimately invites a critical rethinking of how society projects its social anxieties and power structures onto the technological futures it imagines.