FACULTY PROFILE
Dr. Jarrod Shanahan studies the social history of punishment and control in the United States and recent protest movements against capitalism. He is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage (Verso, 2022), which won the 2023 New York City Book Award, the co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America's Punishment System (Reaktion/Field Notes, 2022), an editor of Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: A Noel Ignatiev Reader (Verso, 2022), and an editor of the journal Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life.
Dr. Shanahan is also the co-author of City Time: The Social World of Sentenced Men at Rikers Island, forthcoming from NYU Press, and Skyscraper Jails, forthcoming from Haymarket Books.
His short writing has appeared in numerous publications including Social Justice, Race & Class, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, Jacobin, Vice, Urban Omnibus, New Inquiry, Truthout, Ill Will, End Notes, Inquest, Insurgent Notes, and Gothamist.
His research has been cited or reviewed in numerous publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, The Nation, and the New York Daily News.
Dr. Shanahan lives in Chicago and speaks regularly on the topics of policing, incarceration, and protest movements against them, often at his favorite bookstore, Pilsen Community Books.
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