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Jordan T. Camp (On leave)
Associate Professor of American Studies
Phone: (860) 297-2388 Office Location: Seabury Hall T-405
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Trinity College faculty member since 2021
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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 Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College, a National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, and will be Stuart Hall fellow in the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University in Spring 2025. His research focuses on the relationships between race and class, expressive culture, political economy, space, 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 or is forthcoming 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, 2023), and Key Thinkers on Space and Place, third edition, edited by Mary Gilmartin, et al (Sage Publishing, 2024). He is the co-host and co-producer of the Conjuncture podcast and web series inspired by Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall. He is currently working on a new book entitled, The Southern Question (under contract, University of California Press).