Professor of American Studies

Education: PhD, University of Kentucky
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interest

Law, Violence, Policing, Environmental Justice

My work, whether in the archives, on the street, or in the classroom, focuses on the state's police powers, law and its relation to violence, and environmental politics. I am a co-founder of the research and mutual aid collective AbolishAPD (abolishapd.org).

Books

• Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Strike of 1902 and the Birth of the Police as We Know It (Haymarket Books), Forthcoming, July 2024

• Policía: Unha Guía de Campo (13editoraPress) Forthcoming Galician translation of Police: A Field Guide, 2024

• An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents Over Three Centuries (Haymarket Books, 2022)

• Police: A Field Guide, co-written with Tyler Wall, Second Edition (Verso Books, 2022)

• Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of Police, co-edited with Tyler Wall, (Haymarket Books, 2021)

• Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation, cowritten with Jennifer Denetdale, Melanie Yazzie, and Nick Estes (PM Press, 2021)

• Police: A Field Guide, co-written with Tyler Wall, First Edition (Verso Books, 2018)

• Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico (University of Georgia Press, 2013)

Teaching

• Introduction to Environmental and Social Justice

• Law, Violence & Empire

• Law’s Violence

• The Archives: Theory and Fiction