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Degrees:
Ph.D., Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara
M.A., Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara
M.A., Humboldt State Univ.
B.A., Univ. of Mississippi
Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College, and a Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut. His research focuses on the relationships between race and class, expressive culture, political economy, the state, social theory, and the history of labor and freedom struggles. He is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016); co-editor (with Christina Heatherton) of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016); and co-editor (with Laura Pulido) of the late Clyde Woods’ Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (University of Georgia Press, 2017). His work also appears in journals such as American Quarterly, Antipode, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Eurozine, Journal of Urban History, Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, Ord & Bild, Race & Class, Rethinking Marxism, and Social Justice; as well as edited volumes including, In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, edited by Clyde Woods (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010); Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime, edited by Paula Chakravartty and Denise da Silva (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013); Futures of Black Radicalism, edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin (Verso, 2017), Oxford Bibliographies in Geography, edited by Barney Warf (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), Racism, Violence, Crime, and Media, edited by Waqas Tufail, Scott Poynting, Monish Bhatia (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming), and Key Thinkers on Space and Place, third edition, edited by Mary Gilmartin, et al (Sage Publishing, forthcoming). He is the co-host and co-producer of the Conjuncture podcast and web series. He is currently working on a new book entitled, The Southern Question. |
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Carceral Studies
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Critical Geography
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Oral History
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Public Humanities
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Expressive Culture
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Social Theory
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U.S. Political Culture
AMST-223
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The Prison & Public Humanities
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AMST-327
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Racial Capitalism
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AMST-825
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Curating Conversations in the Public Humanities
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FYSM-154
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The Poetry of Social Movements
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Critical Geography
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Carceral Studies
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Expressive Culture
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Public Humanities
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Race and Class
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Labor and Social Movements
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Political and Social Theory
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U.S. Political Culture
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Selected Publications:
Books - Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016).
- Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (co-edited with Christina Heatherton, New York: Verso Books, 2016).
- Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans, by the late Clyde Woods. (co-edited with Laura Pulido, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017).
Select Essays and Reviews - "Stuart Hall." In Key Thinkers on Space and Place, third edition, ed. Mary Gilmartin, et al (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishing, forthcoming).
- “If I Had My Way I’d Tear this Building Down: Political Economy, Regional History, and Landscape Transformation in Greater New Orleans,” review essay of Richard Campanella, The West Bank of Greater New Orleans: A Historical Geography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2020) and Andy Horowitz, Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2020), in Journal of Urban History (2022).
- “Gramsci and Geography,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Geography, edited by Barney Warf (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- “Counterinsurgency Reexamined: Racism, Capitalism, and U.S. Military Doctrine,” (with Jennifer Greenburg) Antipode 52.2 (2020): 430-451.
- “Protest in the U.S.: 1968-2018,” (with Margit Mayer and Don Mitchell) Ord and Bild 2.3 (2018).*Republished in English in Eurozine (2018), eurozine.com.
- “The Bombs Explode at Home: Policing, Prisons, and Permanent War,” special issue of Social Justice: Neoliberal Confinements: Social Suffering in the Shadows of the Carceral State, edited by Ben Fleury-Steiner and Alessandro De Giorgi 44.2-3 (2017): 11-30.
Select Presentations: - “The Southern Question," invited, International Workshop on Racial Capitalism, University of Texas, Austin, April 21, 2023.
- “Interpreting the Conjuncture," (with Christina Heatherton), invited, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, February 16, 2023.
- “Conjunctural Analysis in an Era of Extremes," invited, plenary panel, conference on Dismantling Racial Capitalism hosted by Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, New York University School of Law, December 1, 2022.
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- Stuart Hall Fellowship, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University (forthcoming).
- Visiting Fellowship, Scholars-in-Residence Program, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library (forthcoming).
- Visiting Fellowship, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, 2023-2024.
- Research Grant, Racial Capitalism Working Group, Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, 2018-2021.
- Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant, “Cultures of War/Cultures of Opposition,” Office of the Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 2019.
- Transdisciplinary Book Award, Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State, Honorable Mention, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, 2018.
- Presidential Research Award, Racial Capitalism Working Group, Office of the President, Barnard College, 2018-2019.
- Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography, Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post- Katrina New Orleans by the late Clyde Woods (co-editor with Laura Pulido), Association of American Geographers, 2017.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, 2015-2017.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University, 2014-2015.
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