Academic Publications
The Study of Racism and Policing in the United States | Annual Review of Political Science, 2025 | Co-authored with Spencer Piston, Kaneesha R. Johnson, and Selma Hedlund
Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails | Criminology, 2025 | Co-authored with Heather Schoenfeld and Marielis Rosa
Essays
Monsters and Mass Politics | Protean, August 4, 2022
Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Whale | Jacobin, February 6, 2022
The government is failing health care workers. Unions aren’t. | Strikewave, February 3, 2021
The Working Dead: Reviving the Crowd as a Protagonist | LA Review of Books Blog, June 24, 2020
“Soul Searching” Will Not Stop the Police Murders of Black People | Truthout, June 22, 2020
Poverty wages in nursing homes have accelerated the coronavirus outbreak. | The Boston Globe, April 25, 2020
Frederick Douglass and the Transformational Power of Courage in a Fearsome World | Black Issues in Philosophy Blog of the American Philosophical Association, February 18, 2020
They called us ‘flat-earthers.’ But we were right. | The Boston Globe, November 20, 2019
Chas Walker 