aboutI am an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Center for Law, Justice & Culture at Ohio University.
I specialize in American political development, race and American politics, and Black political thought. My book, Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State, investigates the origins of the contemporary carceral state in the post- WWII American South. It traces the critical 20th century turn in southern carceral machinery when state governments dismantled central pillars of Jim Crow criminal justice—vagrancy laws, lynching, and chain gangs—and built new carceral institutions in their place. contactKirstine Taylor
Ohio University Department of Political Science Athens, OH 45701 Email: [email protected] |
updatesMARCH 2024: My book, Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State, is forthcoming with University of Chicago Press in early 2025.
JUNE 2022: promoted to Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University MAY 2022: The Politics of Protest: Readings on the Black Lives Matter Movement (where I have a small contribution) is out in paperback. JULY 2021: My article engaging James Baldwin's political thought, "Racial Capitalism and the Production of Racial Innocence" is out in Theory & Event. OCT 2018: My article on the origins of crime policy in the postwar South, "Sunbelt Capitalism, Civil Rights, and the Development of Carceral Policy in North Carolina, 1954-1970," is available online from Studies in American Political Development. FEB 2018: "American Political Development in the Age of Incarceration" is out in Politics, Groups, and Identities. AUG 2016: Joined faculty in Political Science and the Center for Law, Justice & Culture at Ohio University. JAN 2016: McCann, Lovell & Taylor, "Covering Legal Mobilization: A Bottom-Up Analysis of Wards Cove v. Atonio" is out in Law & Society Review. SEPT 2015: WISIR Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship at University of Washington MAR 2015: "Untimely Subjects: White Trash and the Making of Racial Innocence in the Postwar South" is out in American Quarterly. |