Research Leader
Joshua Kaiser, J.D. Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. As a sociologist, criminologist, and legal scholar, he studies the reciprocal relationship between state power and intersectional inequalities across time and place. He is currently at work on three projects: (1) a new book about the history of “hidden sentences” in the United States and the ways that they legitimize and continually reinforce race, class, and other social inequalities, (2) a novel dataset of penal policies in order to answer enduring questions about how punishment produces racial-economic inequalities among individuals, families, and communities in the United States, and (3) a project on the imperial and colonial implications of analyzing genocide as a process of social destruction.
To learn more about Josh and his research go to the following links: