Events & Talks
Book Tour: I'm launching a book tour for The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America! I hope to see you there.
Local Events
Moon Palace Bookstore, June 11th
Public Book Talks in Other Cities
Greenlight Books (Brooklyn, NY), in conversation with Jelani Cobb, May 16
A Room of One's Own (Madison, WI), May 20
Department Colloquia
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Feb. 7
University at Buffalo SUNY, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, April 26
Conference Talks
Law & Society Association, Punishment & Society CRN, New Books in the Field, June 2024 (Denver, CO)
American Society of Criminology, Policing Book Salon (in conversation with Alex Vitale), November 2024 (San Francisco, CA)
Recorded Lectures
"From Police Reform to Police Abolition? How Residents and Activists in Minneapolis Want to Make Black Lives Matter" (February 2022). The University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center (PRC) Speaker Series. (1 hour talk)
"Why Did Voters Reject Plans to Replace the Minneapolis Police Department?" (Dec. 2021) Harvard Kennedy School, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. (1 hour presentation + Q&A)
"Criminal (in)Justice, Race, and Policing: Derek Chauvin, Mohamed Noor, and Beyond" (April 2021). ICW Public Scholarship Teach-In, University of Minnesota. (1.5 hours discussion)
"Reimagining/Reinventing Police Conference" (July 2020). University of Chicago. (Start at 2 minutes [15 minutes])
"Policing, Public Policy, and Racial Justice: Stories and Analysis from Minneapolis, Atlanta, and D.C." (July 2020). ICW Public Scholarship. (Start at 1:28 minutes [10 minutes])
"Cry the Beloved Country: George Floyd and America's Continuing Racial Tragedy" (May 2020.) Law & Society Association plenary Panel. (Start at 42 minutes [10 minutes])
"The First Step Act: Conflict and Consensus in the Penal Field under Trump" (May 2019). Quattrone Center 2019 Spring Symposium. (Start at the 3:44:40 time stamp or click on slide title [20 minutes])
"Governing Marginality: Coercion and Care in Probation Supervision" (Oct. 2018). LSA CRN 27 Punishment & Society Digital Series [40 minutes presentation + Q&A]
"Mass Probation by the Numbers" (Oct. 2014). Minnesota Population Center [40 minute presentation]
Symposium Introduction, "Offenders in the Community" (Oct. 2014). University of Minnesota Law Review. (Starts at the 6 minute mark) [10 minutes]