FACULTY聽 PROFILE
Dr. Jarrod Shanahan studies the social history of punishment and control in the United States and recent protest movements against capitalism. He is the author of聽Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage聽(Verso, 2022), which won the 2023 New York City Book Award, the co-author of聽States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America's Punishment System聽(Reaktion/Field Notes, 2022), an editor of聽Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: A Noel Ignatiev Reader聽(Verso, 2022), and an editor of the journal聽Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life.听
Dr. Shanahan is also the co-author of聽City Time: The Social World of Sentenced Men at Rikers Island, forthcoming from NYU Press, and聽Skyscraper Jails, forthcoming from Haymarket Books.听
His short writing has appeared in numerous publications including聽Social Justice, Race & Class, Los Angeles Review of Books,听The Brooklyn Rail,听Jacobin,听Vice,听Urban Omnibus,听New Inquiry,听Truthout,听Ill Will,听End Notes,听Inquest,听Insurgent Notes, and聽Gothamist.听
His research has been cited or reviewed in numerous publications including the聽New York Times,听Washington Post,听New York Review of Books,听London Review of Books,听The Nation, and the聽New York Daily News.听
Dr. Shanahan lives in Chicago and speaks regularly on the topics of policing, incarceration, and protest movements against them, often at his favorite bookstore, Pilsen Community Books.听