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Kevin G. Karpiak, PhD
DEPT. OF SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY & CRIMINOLOGY •EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
712 PRAY-HARROLD• YPSILANTI, MI 48197
PHONE: 734-484-0495 • EMAIL: [email protected]
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political and Legal Anthropology; Ethnography of Police, Policing and the State; Critical, Cultural &
Theoretical Criminology; French Studies; Liberalism; Science and Technology Studies; French
Feminist Theory; Urban Anthropology; Ethnographic Methods; Whiteness, Masculinity & other
forms of “unmarked” power; Approaches to Globalization; Anthropology of the U.S.
EDUCATION
2009
University of California, Berkeley
PhD in Anthropology
1998
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
BA in Anthropology and Psychology
Dissertation Title
The Police Against Itself: forming a “post-social” police
Dissertation Committee
Dr. Lawrence Cohen (advisor), Dr. Aihwa Ong, Dr. Paul Rabinow, Dr. Jonathan Simon
TEACHING POSITIONSS HELD
2015present
20102015
Associate Professor
Eastern Michigan University
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
Assistant Professor
Eastern Michigan University
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
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Anthropology 135: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
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Criminology 431: Policing in Society
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Criminology 447W: Senior Seminar in Criminology
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“Writing/Police/Power”
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“Police and Statistics”
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“The Idea of Police”
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“Liberalism, Punishment, Security”
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Criminology 479/592: Ethnographies of Police
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Criminology / Sociology 513: Social Deviance
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Criminology 666: Global Criminology
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Directed Undergraduate Honors work and advised Master’s Theses
PUBLICATIONS
Books, Edited Volumes & Special Issues
2016
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Thinking through police, producing theory: the new anthropology of police as mode
of critical thought . Guest Editor. Special Issue of the journal Theoretical
Criminology to appear May 2016.
The Police Against Itself: reassembling French liberalism “after the social” . Book
manuscript, in preparation to send to reviewers for Cornell University Press.
The Anthropology of Police . Co-Editor, with William Garriott. Under Contract
with Routledge Press, UK.
Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters
2016
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2015
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Introduction: Beyond “Police are good to think”. Special Issue of Theoretical
Criminology, “Thinking through police, producing theory”.
Max Weber, Police Studies, and the ethnography of violence. Special Issue of
Theoretical Criminology, “Thinking through police, producing theory”.
The Anthropology of Police as Public Anthropology. American Anthropologist
(with Paul Mutsaers and Jennie Simpson). Forthcoming
Adjusting the Police: state, society and the distance of just violence in contemporary
France. In Policing and Contemporary Governance: the anthropology of
police in practice, edited by William Garriott . New York: Palgrave.
Of Heroes and Polemics: the figure of ‘The Policeman’ in urban ethnography.
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review , Vol. 33, Number S1, pps.
7–31. Special Issue on “Disciplinary Edges.”
Ethnography, or the Direction of Eros: A reading of Plato‟s Symposium and
Malinowski‟s “The Subject, Method and Scope of This Inquiry”. Kroeber
Anthropological Society Papers , 97:63-74.
White Noise: the production of whiteness through representations of Native
Americans. Steward Journal of Anthropology 27(1-2):74-98.
The Problem of a Post-Social Police: making moral direction in police work “after
the social moment”. Preparing under a “revise and resubmit”
recommendation for the journal American Ethnologist
Electric Burns: attending the microphysics of police practice. Preparing under a
“revise and resubmit” recommendation for the journal Public Culture
Is an “Anthropology of Police” Possible? In preparation, with William Garriott for
Current Anthropology
Joint Research Projects
2002
2001
Informal Arts : finding Cohesion, Capacity, and Other Cultural Benefits in
Unexpected Places. Research Report to the Chicago Center for Arts Policy at
Columbia College. Alaka Wali, Ph.D., Principal Investigator.
Stress and resilience: the social context of reproduction in Central Harlem. New
York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Dr. Leith Mullings & Dr. Alaka Wali,
Principal Investigators.
Other Academic Writing (Reference Works, Reports, Reviews, Invited Blog Posts, Etc.)
2016
2015
2014
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“The Anthropology of Police” in The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing, Ian
Loader, Ben Bradford, Beatrice Jauregui, Jonny Steinberg (eds.) Sage:
Oxford.
“Re-reading ‘Of Heroes…’”. Political and Legal Anthropology Review Special Virtual
Issue on “The pathos of Law”
“Community Policing” in SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics , Bruce
Arrigo, editor. Sage: New York.
“Our Own Impersonal Daemons: working through the anthropology of the
contemporary.” Book Forum: “Demands of Day”. Anthropological Research
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on the Contemporary. http://anthropos-lab.net/bpc/2014/02/book-forumdemands-kevin-karpiak (accessed February 26, 2014).
Review of Jock Young’s The Criminological Imagination . In Critical Criminology
21(3):389-391.
“Fault Lines” in an Anthropology of Police, Both Local and Global. In
Anthropology News 54(11-12):3-4 (posted online July 30 , 2013).
http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/07/30/fault-lines-in-ananthropology-of-police-both-public-and-global/)
Using George Zimmerman as an Object Lesson in the Anthropology of Policing.
Savage Minds Blog (July 16 , 2013).
https://backupminds.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/using-george-zimmermanas-an-object-lesson-in-the-anthropology-of-policing/
Ethnography, or the Direction of Eros: A reading of Plato’s Symposium and
Malinowski’s “The Subject, Method and Scope of This Inquiry”. Kroeber
Anthropological Society Papers.
Implementing Police Reform in Sarkozy’s France. Center on Institutions and
Governance Working Paper No. 44. Institute of Governmental Studies
University of California, Berkeley. Available
at http://igov.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/series2/No44_Karpiak.pdf
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Selected Blog Posts, Op-Eds & Commentaries
March
2013
January
2013
December
2012
August
2012
April
2012
August
2011
June 2011
November
2010
February
2010
October
2009
September
2009
Fieldnotes: Thinking through Subjectivity & Materiality through TASERS. Kevin
Karpiak’s Blog. https://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/fieldnotesthinking-through-subjectivity-materiality-through-tasers/
Some Thoughts on the French Protests Against Gay Marriage. Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
https://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/some-thoughts-on-thefrench-protests-against-gay-marriage/
In The News: Anthropologists, Criminologists (and some others) on the Newtown
Shootings. Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing Blog .
https://anthropoliteia.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/in-the-newsanthropologists-criminologists-and-some-others-on-the-newtown-shootings/
Ian Hacking, Causality & the Telling of History Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/ian-hacking-causality-thetelling-of-history/
Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and the Anthropology of Police.
Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing Blog .
http://anthropoliteia.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/trayvon-martin-georgezimmerman-and-the-anthropology-of-police/
Some thoughts on the London “riots”: Foucault’s genealogy of neoliberalism and
“police as a public service”. Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing
Blog . http://anthropoliteia.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/some-thoughts-onthe-london-riots-foucaults-genealogy-of-neoliberalism-and-police-as-a-publicservice/
Universal Moral Grammar? Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/universal-moral-grammar/
The Progressive Roots of American Anthropology (versus the Tea Party last time)
Kevin Karpiak’s Blog http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/theprogressive-roots-of-american-anthropology-versus-the-tea-party-last-time/
Studying Military, Security & Intelligence Communities Ethics Casebook by the
American Anthropological Association. Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of
policing Blog . http://anthropoliteia.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/studyingmilitary-security-intelligence-communities-ethics-casebook-by-the-americananthropological-association/
Is the “culture of results” bad for life? Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/is-the-culture-of-results-badfor-life/
Liberalism, Transparency and the Interior Labyrinth. Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/liberalism-trasparency-and-the-
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interior-labyrinth/
What is neoliberalism and how can we tell? Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/what-is-neoliberalism-andhow-can-we-tell/
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS
20152016
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Eastern Michigan University Faculty Research Fellowship
“Of Heroes and Polemics” selected for inclusion in a special Virtual Issue of Political
and Legal Anthropology Review on “The pathos of Law.”
“Of Heroes and Polemics” recognized by the American Anthropological Association as
one of the 15 highest ranking articles according to Altmetrics.
Eastern Michigan University Faculty Research Fellowship
Eastern Michigan University College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Faculty Travel Fund
Award
SAC Department Faculty Research Award
Eastern Michigan University College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Faculty Travel Fund
Award
Appointed to Eastern Michigan University’s Faculty Seminar on Global Perspectives and
Learning
Nominated as one of 16 faculty mentors for Assumption College’s Living and Learning
Center
Eastern Michigan University College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Faculty Travel Fund
Award
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UC Berkeley
Dissertation Writing Grant, Institute for European Studies, University of California
UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship, Dept. of Anthropology
Nominee
Research Grant, Institute for International Studies, UC Berkeley
Research Grant, Institute for European Studies, UC Berkeley
University of California at Berkeley Normative Time Fellowship
Georges Lurcy Fellowship for dissertation research in France
Graduate Division Summer Research Grant for Intensive French Language Study
Patricia O’Brien Award for Outstanding Achievement in Anthropology, U Illinois
Sylvia H. Forman Prize of the Association for Feminist Anthropology, Honorable
Mention
University of Illinois Departmental Distinction in Anthropology, Highest Honors
SEOG Grant
Bloom Scholarship
General Assembly Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SESSIONS ORGANIZED
November
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“Collaborative Engagements in Policing: a roundtable discussion on anthropology,
police and oversight.” Roundtable organized with Jennie S. Simpson for the
Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Denver, Co. Participants
include: Rep. Joseph Salazar, Comm. Paul Pazan, and Denver Co. Internal
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April 2013
November
2011
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Monitor Nicolas Mitchell.
“The Anthropology of Police: Challenges and Opportunities” Roundtable organized
with William Garriott for the Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
Denver, Co.
“Thinking Through Police, Producing Anthropological Theory: ethnography as a tool
for critical thought.” Panel organized for the Anthropological Association
Annual Meetings, Washington, DC.
“Bureaucracy as Practical Ethics: attending to moments of ethical problematization
through ethnography.” Panel organized for the American Ethnological Society
& Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Spring Meeting Chicago,
Illinois
“‘The Social,’ This Time: Traces, Tidemarks & Legacies of Social Analysis.” American
Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Montreal, Quebec. Session CoOrganizer (with Stephanie Lloyd).
“Cops & Canons: What Is The Anthropology Of Policing And What Is It Good For?”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA.
Session Co-Organizer (with William Garriott).
“How Is Anthropology Going? An Inquiry into Movement, Mode and Method in the
Contemporary World” American Anthropological Association Annual
Meetings, San Francisco, CA. Session Co-Organizer (with Chris Vasantkumar
& Mattias Viktorin). Sponsored by the American Ethnological Society.
“Field/Work: Work as an Object of Anthropological Inquiry Beyond "Ethnos"
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, San Jose, CA.
Session Co-Organizer (with Zeynep Gursel & Daromir Rudnyckyj). Sponsored
by the Society for the Anthropology of Work.
“‘Law’: a faculty/graduate student workshop” American Anthropological Association
Annual Meetings, San Jose, CA. Co-Organizer. Sponsored by the Association
for Legal and Political Anthropology.
Studying Up, Down and Sideways: U.S. Ethnography as an Anthropological
Reimagining of “Insides.” American Anthropological Association Annual
Meetings, San Francisco, CA. Session Co-Organizer. Sponsored by the
Society for the Anthropology of North America.
LECTURE, CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP INVITATIONS
November
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April 2015
November
2014
January
2014
November
2013
September
2013
February
2013
“Points of Crossing, Moments of Inspection: Assembling the Impact of Alejandro
Lugo’s Anthropology” Paper given as part of the invited session “Alternative
Imaginings of Class, Gender and Capitalism: Works and Careers Inspired by
Alejandro Lugo” sponsored by the Association of Latina and Latino
Anthropologists and the Society for Latin American and Caribbean
Anthropology at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
Denver Co.
“The Anthropology of Police” presented at the conference “Global Policing” held at
Oxford University. Organized by Ian Loader, Ben Bradford, Beatrice
Jauregui, and Jonny Steinberg.
Discussant for the panel “Justifiable Homicide” organized by Jennifer Carlson (U
Toronto).
“Electric Burns: attending to the microphysics of police practice” University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor SocioCultural Workshop
Chair of the panel “Bodying Forth in Law” organized by Sameena Mulla (Marquette U)
and Sidharthan Maunaguru (University of Edinburgh and National University
of Singapore). Discussant: Veena Das (Johns Hopkins).
The Police Against Itself, “Suite I,” presented to the Faculty Research Proseminar of
the Department of Sociology. Anthropology & Criminology at Eastern
Michigan University.
“Community Policing,” presented to the Faculty Research Proseminar of the
Department of Sociology. Anthropology & Criminology at Eastern Michigan
University.
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2012
November
2010
July 2010
“Sense in Work: making moral direction in police work,” presented to the Faculty
Research Proseminar of the Department of Sociology. Anthropology &
Criminology at Eastern Michigan University.
"Taking the Field": thinking "police" through the social sciences, thinking "society"
through policing. Co-authored presentation with Brian Lande as part of the
invited session of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
“Business Encounters – Fieldwork Conversations” organized by Brian Moeran
(Copenhagen Business School) and Timothy de Waal Malefyt (BBDO, New
York).
“Police/State: what French police reform can tell us about contemporary state refigurations” as part of the XXI Colloquium for Police History: ‘Phenomena of
Erosion of the states’ monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force and of
the privatization of police competences’, University of Cologne, Germany.
“Electric Burns: the French Banlieue Riots and the Problem of a ‘Post-Social’ Police.”
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Swarthmore College.
“Electric Burns: the French Banlieue Riots and the Problem of a ‘Post-Social’ Police.”
Hurford Humanities Center, Haverford College.
“Transatlantic Perspectives on the Local Pursuit of Intelligence”, Conference
Organizers: Jacqueline Ross, University of Illinois College of Law, and Thierry
Delpeuch, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. Jointly sponsored by
the University of Illinois College of Law; the University of Illinois College of
Law’s Program in Criminal Law and Procedure; The University of Illinois
Police Training Institute; the University of Illinois European Union Center; the
United States Embassy in France; the Ministry of the Interior of France; the
Agence Nationale de Recherche; and France’s Centre National de Recherche
Scientifique
“Electric Burns: the banlieue riots and the problem of a post-social police in France.”
Paper presented to the University of Chicago Anthropology of Europe
Workshop.
“Electric Burns: governmentality and its discontents in the French banlieue riots.”
Paper given at workshop “Violence and Creativity” with Dr. Ashis Nandy.
Sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies, UC Berkeley.
“The Penal State” held at University of California Berkeley, Sociology Department and
Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Boalt Law School, UC-Berkeley;
Princeton University; and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Dissertation development workshop on “Democracy, Community, Citizenship” with
Dr. Wendy Brown. Sponsored by the SSRC and University of California
Berkeley, Institute of International Studies.
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PROFESSIONAL PAPERS GIVEN
December
2014
November
2014
May 2014
November
2013
April 2013
“Introduction: Beyond ‘police are good to think.’” Paper given at the American
Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington, DC as part of the
panel “Thinking Through Police, Producing Anthropological Theory:
ethnography as a tool for critical thought”.
“George Zimmerman and the paradox of ‘community policing’’. Paper given at the
American Society of Criminology Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA as part
of the panel “Justifiable Homicide” organized by Jennifer Carlson (U
Toronto).
“The imminence of police: rethinking the boundaries of "police" and "work" after the
social moment”. Paper given at the Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial
Meetings, Detroit, MI as part of the panel “Labor in Specie? Realizing
Multiple Lives of Work.” Organizers: Casey Golomski (University of
Massachusetts Boston) and Mrinalini Tankha (Brandeis University)
“Ad-justing the police: police work as practical moral philosophy”. Paper given at the
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL as part of
the panel “Doing Justice?” organized by Sarah Besky (Michigan).
Sense in Work: police administrative reform as ethical thought. American
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November
Ethnological Society & Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Spring
Meeting Chicago, Illinois
Discussant for the panel “‘The Social,’ This Time: Traces, Tidemarks & Legacies of
Social Analysis.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
Montreal, Quebec.
“Television coverage of the 2011 British ‘Riots’, Foucault's genealogy of neoliberalism
and ‘police as a public service’." Paper given at the International Crime, Media
and Popular Culture Conference (Indiana State University, Terre Haute)
“The Use and Abuse of La Police: Or, Uncanny Encounters with “French Theory”
among the Police Nationale” in the session “Foucault et al. from Paris to
California and Back Again: The Creolisation of "French Theory"” organized by
Stephanie Lloyd and Baptiste Moutaud.
“Figures of Urban Anomie.” Paper given at the International Crime, Media and
Popular Culture Conference (Indiana State University, Terre Haute)
“Police/State” Paper given at the American Anthropological Association Annual
Meetings, Philadelphia, PA as part of the panel “Police Power: Ethnographic
Perspectives” organized by William Garriott (James Madison). Discussant:
Mindie Lazarus Black (Temple).
“The problem of a “post-social” police in France.” Paper presented at the conference
“Transatlantic Perspectives on the Local Pursuit of Intelligence”, held at the
University of Illinois College of Law in Urbana-Champaign.
“Electric Burns: the banlieue riots and the problem of a post-social police in France.”
Paper presented to the University of Chicago Anthropology of Europe
Workshop.
“Introduction” Paper given at American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
San Francisco, CA as part of the panel “How Is Anthropology Going? An
Inquiry into Movement, Mode and Method in the Contemporary World”.
“Putting the Police into Motion: Rhetoric and Political Form in France” Paper given at
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA as
part of the panel “How Is Anthropology Going? An Inquiry into Movement,
Mode and Method in the Contemporary World”
“Moral Divides: The Problem of Policing ‘After the Social’” Paper given at the Soyuz
Postsocialist Cultural Studies conference “Contemporary Critical Inquiry
Through the Lens of Postsocialism,” Berkeley, CA.
“Right Is as Right Does: What's So "Right" about Nicolas Sarkozy's Reform of the
French Police Nationale?.” Paper given at the conference “Toward a
Comparative Discussion on "Rightist" Movements,” CUNY Graduate Center.
“Electric Burns.” Paper given at the Institute of European Studies, University of
California at Berkeley.
“Neo-liberal Policing and Its Malcontents: the reform of the French Police Nationale
and the banlieue riots of 2005.” Paper given at American Anthropological
Association Annual Meetings, San Jose, CA as part of the panel “The Force of
Standards: rules and regulations as imagined and inscribed commodity”.
“Introduction: Field and Work in Anthropology.” Paper given at American
Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, San Jose, CA as part of the
panel “Field/Work: Work as an Object of Anthropological Inquiry Beyond
‘Ethnos’”.
“Reforming the police de proximité in France.” Paper given at the conference: “The
Penal State” held at University of California Berkeley, Sociology Department
and Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Boalt Law School, UC-Berkeley;
Princeton University; and the Russell Sage Foundation.
“Tasers, Tantrums and the Tools of Liberty.” Paper given at the conference "Alles in
Ordnung?: Civil Order and its Breakdowns”, Department of Germanic
Languages & Literatures, Columbia University in the City of New York.
“Forming a friendlier ‘ flic ’: the emergence of community policing in France.” Paper
Given, “Democracy, Community, Citizenship” dissertation workshop.
University of California Berkeley, Institute of International Studies.
“Chicago & Paris.” Paper Given at the American Anthropological Association Annual
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GUEST LECTURES / CONSULTANCIES
Fall 2011
March
2010
April 2009
March 23,
2009
March
2007
December
2006
May 2006
April 2006
Spring
2006
May 2004
February
6, 2003
Consultant for Time.com regarding Oakland, CA protests and riots
Consultant for a 91.3 WCUW news segment on the cultural significance of Hip-Hop in
France
Discussant for the panel “Intelligence-Led Policing in the Police Curriculum” as part of
the conference “Transatlantic Perspectives on the Local Pursuit of
Intelligence” held at University of Illinois College of Law.
“Race and Ethnicity: Is The City a Melting Pot or a Crucible of Conflict?” Guest
lecture to Dr. Richard Gendron’s course, Sociology of Urban Life, Assumption
College (Worcester, MA).
“Governmentality, the State and the French Riots.” Guest lecture to Dr. Stanley
Brandes’ course, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology , UC Berkeley.
Discussant for “Power” panel, as part of a conference on undergraduate research,
University of California, Berkeley
Consultant for the Frontline documentary “France: The Precarious Generation”
“The King’s Two Bodies: Heirarchy and Distance at the École Nationale de Police à
Saint-Malo”, Guest Lecture, Anthropology 169B Anthropological Research
Methods , University of California, Berkeley.
Interview with The Berklyean Magazine regarding research on the 2005 French riots
“Le problème de la police en France” Visiting International Doctoral Researcher
Seminar. Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po). Institut
d’etudes politiques de Paris (IEP).
“Police, Profession, Urban Ethnography: the figure of ‘the policeman’ in urban
anthropology.” Dissertation research seminar. Dr. Allan Pred, supervising
professor. University of California, Berkeley.
WORKING GROUPS & ACADEMIC BLOGS
2009present
2009-2010
2008present
2008
2005-2008
1999-2001
Anthropoliteia: critical perspectives on crime, police security and law
(http://anthropoliteia.net), Editor
Anthropology Now! Online (http://anthronow.com/)
Kevin Karpiak’s Blog: a blog about post-social policing, anthropology, science studies
and more (http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com)
Diogenes’ Lab Blog, a blog of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research
Collaboratory (http://diogeneslab.wordpress.com/)
Police Studies, UC Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities Working Group
Ethnography in the U.S.: the “Insider” Imaginary, UC Berkeley Townsend Center for
the Humanities Working Group
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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American Anthropological Association
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Society for the Anthropology of Work
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Society for Cultural Anthropology
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American Ethnological Society
American Society of Criminology
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2014present
2014present
2014present
2013present
2013present
2011-14
2012present
2011present
2010present
2012present
2011present
2010present
2010-11
2000-1
1999-2001
1996-1998
1996-1998
Reviewer for NYU Press
Reviewer for the journal Public Culture
Anthropology Curriculum Committee, Eastern Michigan University
SAC Research & Ethics Committee, Eastern Michigan University
Reviewer for the journal City & Society
Representative to Eastern Michigan University’s Grading & Grievance Committee
SAC representative to Eastern Michigan University’s Graduate Council and the
Graduate Program Support Sub-Committee
Graduate Curriculum Committee, Eastern Michigan University Department of
Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology.
Representative to Eastern Michigan University’s University Human Subjects Review
Committee (UHSRC), vulnerable populations specialist (prisons & prisoners)
Reviewer for Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)
Reviewer for the journal Ethnography
Criminology Curriculum Committee, Eastern Michigan University
Global Learning Seminar, Eastern Michigan University
Co-President, Anthropology Graduate Organization for Research and Action
(AGORA), UC Berkeley
Journal of the Kroeber Anthropological Society, UC Berkeley
Steward Journal of Anthropology, U Illinois
President, Undergraduate Association of Student Anthropologists (UGASA), U Illinois
EXPERIENCE
FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE
Fall 2012present
Various Locales in Chicago, Michigan, France and interspace
Preliminary ethnographic fieldwork on police use of technology, especially social media
Fall 2009 –
Spring
2010
Winter
2005
Worcester, MA
Fieldwork among the Worcester City Council and at Worcester Crime Watch meetings
Summer
2003 – Fall
2005
Paris and various other location in France
Ethnographic dissertation project: “Neo-liberal forms of Governmentality through the
practice of ‘Community Policing’ in France”
Fall 2001 –
Summer
2002
Winter
2001
Chicago, IL
News Affairs Division, Chicago Police Dept.
Paris, France
Ethnographic project concerning the Fall 2005 banlieue riots
Paris, France
Initial planning for more extensive research to be conducted in 2003-2005
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009-2010
Visiting Assistant Professor
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2007-2009
Assumption College (Worcester, MA)
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Lecturer
University of California at Davis
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Anthropology 130A : Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
Instructor
University of California at Berkeley
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Anthropology 3AC : Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
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Anthropology R5B : Writing Police/Power
2005
Enseignant
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po, Paris)
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Cour d’ouverture: Social Scientific Research Methods, Ethnography
2002
Adjunct Professor
Richard M. Daley College, Chicago, IL
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Social Sciences 101: Introduction to the Social Sciences
19992009
Graduate Student
Instructor
University of California at
Berkeley
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19992009
Reader
University of California at
Berkeley
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Sociology 5: Evaluation of Research Methods
(Dr. Irene Bloemraad)
Anthropology 3: Introduction to Social &
Cultural Anthropology (Dr. Stanley Brandes,
Dr. Kathleen Erwin, Dr. Nelson Graburn, Dr.
Aihwa Ong, Dr. Liu Xin, Dr. Alexei Yurchak)
American Studies 10: Introduction to American
Studies (Dr. Jennifer Michael)
Anthropology 180: Celebrity and Power (Dr.
Laura Hubbard)
Anthropology 156: Anthropology of Religion
(Dr. Stefania Pandolfo)
SCHOLAR IN-RESIDENCE
20032005
Visiting International Doctoral Researcher
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) / Institut
d’études politiques de Paris (IEP)
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Project Tutor: Didier Bigo
20012002
Visiting Scholar
University of Chicago
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2001-2002
Research Assistant
Chicago, IL
Prof. Gary Herrigel, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago
2001
Researcher / Consultant
Chicago, IL
Columbia College Center for Arts Policy
2001,
1998-1999
Research Assistant
1998-1999
Membership Director
Chicago, IL
Field Museum of Natural History, Center for Cultural Understanding and Change
Chicago, IL
The Peace Museum
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DEPT. OF SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY & CRIMINOLOGY •EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
712 PRAY-HARROLD• YPSILANTI, MI 48197
PHONE: 734-484-0495 • EMAIL: [email protected]
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political and Legal Anthropology; Ethnography of Police, Policing and the State; Critical, Cultural &
Theoretical Criminology; French Studies; Liberalism; Science and Technology Studies; French
Feminist Theory; Urban Anthropology; Ethnographic Methods; Whiteness, Masculinity & other
forms of “unmarked” power; Approaches to Globalization; Anthropology of the U.S.
EDUCATION
2009
University of California, Berkeley
PhD in Anthropology
1998
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
BA in Anthropology and Psychology
Dissertation Title
The Police Against Itself: forming a “post-social” police
Dissertation Committee
Dr. Lawrence Cohen (advisor), Dr. Aihwa Ong, Dr. Paul Rabinow, Dr. Jonathan Simon
TEACHING POSITIONSS HELD
2015present
20102015
Associate Professor
Eastern Michigan University
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
Assistant Professor
Eastern Michigan University
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
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Anthropology 135: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
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Criminology 431: Policing in Society
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Criminology 447W: Senior Seminar in Criminology
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“Writing/Police/Power”
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“Police and Statistics”
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“The Idea of Police”
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“Liberalism, Punishment, Security”
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Criminology 479/592: Ethnographies of Police
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Criminology / Sociology 513: Social Deviance
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Criminology 666: Global Criminology
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Directed Undergraduate Honors work and advised Master’s Theses
PUBLICATIONS
Books, Edited Volumes & Special Issues
2016
m.s.
m.s.
Thinking through police, producing theory: the new anthropology of police as mode
of critical thought . Guest Editor. Special Issue of the journal Theoretical
Criminology to appear May 2016.
The Police Against Itself: reassembling French liberalism “after the social” . Book
manuscript, in preparation to send to reviewers for Cornell University Press.
The Anthropology of Police . Co-Editor, with William Garriott. Under Contract
with Routledge Press, UK.
Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters
2016
2016
2015
2013
2010
2008
1999
m.s.
m.s.
m.s.
Introduction: Beyond “Police are good to think”. Special Issue of Theoretical
Criminology, “Thinking through police, producing theory”.
Max Weber, Police Studies, and the ethnography of violence. Special Issue of
Theoretical Criminology, “Thinking through police, producing theory”.
The Anthropology of Police as Public Anthropology. American Anthropologist
(with Paul Mutsaers and Jennie Simpson). Forthcoming
Adjusting the Police: state, society and the distance of just violence in contemporary
France. In Policing and Contemporary Governance: the anthropology of
police in practice, edited by William Garriott . New York: Palgrave.
Of Heroes and Polemics: the figure of ‘The Policeman’ in urban ethnography.
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review , Vol. 33, Number S1, pps.
7–31. Special Issue on “Disciplinary Edges.”
Ethnography, or the Direction of Eros: A reading of Plato‟s Symposium and
Malinowski‟s “The Subject, Method and Scope of This Inquiry”. Kroeber
Anthropological Society Papers , 97:63-74.
White Noise: the production of whiteness through representations of Native
Americans. Steward Journal of Anthropology 27(1-2):74-98.
The Problem of a Post-Social Police: making moral direction in police work “after
the social moment”. Preparing under a “revise and resubmit”
recommendation for the journal American Ethnologist
Electric Burns: attending the microphysics of police practice. Preparing under a
“revise and resubmit” recommendation for the journal Public Culture
Is an “Anthropology of Police” Possible? In preparation, with William Garriott for
Current Anthropology
Joint Research Projects
2002
2001
Informal Arts : finding Cohesion, Capacity, and Other Cultural Benefits in
Unexpected Places. Research Report to the Chicago Center for Arts Policy at
Columbia College. Alaka Wali, Ph.D., Principal Investigator.
Stress and resilience: the social context of reproduction in Central Harlem. New
York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Dr. Leith Mullings & Dr. Alaka Wali,
Principal Investigators.
Other Academic Writing (Reference Works, Reports, Reviews, Invited Blog Posts, Etc.)
2016
2015
2014
2014
“The Anthropology of Police” in The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing, Ian
Loader, Ben Bradford, Beatrice Jauregui, Jonny Steinberg (eds.) Sage:
Oxford.
“Re-reading ‘Of Heroes…’”. Political and Legal Anthropology Review Special Virtual
Issue on “The pathos of Law”
“Community Policing” in SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics , Bruce
Arrigo, editor. Sage: New York.
“Our Own Impersonal Daemons: working through the anthropology of the
contemporary.” Book Forum: “Demands of Day”. Anthropological Research
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2013
2013
on the Contemporary. http://anthropos-lab.net/bpc/2014/02/book-forumdemands-kevin-karpiak (accessed February 26, 2014).
Review of Jock Young’s The Criminological Imagination . In Critical Criminology
21(3):389-391.
“Fault Lines” in an Anthropology of Police, Both Local and Global. In
Anthropology News 54(11-12):3-4 (posted online July 30 , 2013).
http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/07/30/fault-lines-in-ananthropology-of-police-both-public-and-global/)
Using George Zimmerman as an Object Lesson in the Anthropology of Policing.
Savage Minds Blog (July 16 , 2013).
https://backupminds.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/using-george-zimmermanas-an-object-lesson-in-the-anthropology-of-policing/
Ethnography, or the Direction of Eros: A reading of Plato’s Symposium and
Malinowski’s “The Subject, Method and Scope of This Inquiry”. Kroeber
Anthropological Society Papers.
Implementing Police Reform in Sarkozy’s France. Center on Institutions and
Governance Working Paper No. 44. Institute of Governmental Studies
University of California, Berkeley. Available
at http://igov.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/series2/No44_Karpiak.pdf
th
2013
th
2008
2006
Selected Blog Posts, Op-Eds & Commentaries
March
2013
January
2013
December
2012
August
2012
April
2012
August
2011
June 2011
November
2010
February
2010
October
2009
September
2009
Fieldnotes: Thinking through Subjectivity & Materiality through TASERS. Kevin
Karpiak’s Blog. https://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/fieldnotesthinking-through-subjectivity-materiality-through-tasers/
Some Thoughts on the French Protests Against Gay Marriage. Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
https://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/some-thoughts-on-thefrench-protests-against-gay-marriage/
In The News: Anthropologists, Criminologists (and some others) on the Newtown
Shootings. Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing Blog .
https://anthropoliteia.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/in-the-newsanthropologists-criminologists-and-some-others-on-the-newtown-shootings/
Ian Hacking, Causality & the Telling of History Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/ian-hacking-causality-thetelling-of-history/
Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and the Anthropology of Police.
Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing Blog .
http://anthropoliteia.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/trayvon-martin-georgezimmerman-and-the-anthropology-of-police/
Some thoughts on the London “riots”: Foucault’s genealogy of neoliberalism and
“police as a public service”. Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing
Blog . http://anthropoliteia.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/some-thoughts-onthe-london-riots-foucaults-genealogy-of-neoliberalism-and-police-as-a-publicservice/
Universal Moral Grammar? Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/universal-moral-grammar/
The Progressive Roots of American Anthropology (versus the Tea Party last time)
Kevin Karpiak’s Blog http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/theprogressive-roots-of-american-anthropology-versus-the-tea-party-last-time/
Studying Military, Security & Intelligence Communities Ethics Casebook by the
American Anthropological Association. Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of
policing Blog . http://anthropoliteia.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/studyingmilitary-security-intelligence-communities-ethics-casebook-by-the-americananthropological-association/
Is the “culture of results” bad for life? Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/is-the-culture-of-results-badfor-life/
Liberalism, Transparency and the Interior Labyrinth. Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/liberalism-trasparency-and-the-
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2009
interior-labyrinth/
What is neoliberalism and how can we tell? Kevin Karpiak’s Blog
http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/what-is-neoliberalism-andhow-can-we-tell/
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS
20152016
2015
2015
20132014
2012
2012
2011
2010
2010
2010
2008
2007
2006
2005
2005
2004
2003
2003
1997
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1998
1998
1997
199597
1994
Eastern Michigan University Faculty Research Fellowship
“Of Heroes and Polemics” selected for inclusion in a special Virtual Issue of Political
and Legal Anthropology Review on “The pathos of Law.”
“Of Heroes and Polemics” recognized by the American Anthropological Association as
one of the 15 highest ranking articles according to Altmetrics.
Eastern Michigan University Faculty Research Fellowship
Eastern Michigan University College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Faculty Travel Fund
Award
SAC Department Faculty Research Award
Eastern Michigan University College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Faculty Travel Fund
Award
Appointed to Eastern Michigan University’s Faculty Seminar on Global Perspectives and
Learning
Nominated as one of 16 faculty mentors for Assumption College’s Living and Learning
Center
Eastern Michigan University College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Faculty Travel Fund
Award
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UC Berkeley
Dissertation Writing Grant, Institute for European Studies, University of California
UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship, Dept. of Anthropology
Nominee
Research Grant, Institute for International Studies, UC Berkeley
Research Grant, Institute for European Studies, UC Berkeley
University of California at Berkeley Normative Time Fellowship
Georges Lurcy Fellowship for dissertation research in France
Graduate Division Summer Research Grant for Intensive French Language Study
Patricia O’Brien Award for Outstanding Achievement in Anthropology, U Illinois
Sylvia H. Forman Prize of the Association for Feminist Anthropology, Honorable
Mention
University of Illinois Departmental Distinction in Anthropology, Highest Honors
SEOG Grant
Bloom Scholarship
General Assembly Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SESSIONS ORGANIZED
November
20 , 2015
th
“Collaborative Engagements in Policing: a roundtable discussion on anthropology,
police and oversight.” Roundtable organized with Jennie S. Simpson for the
Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Denver, Co. Participants
include: Rep. Joseph Salazar, Comm. Paul Pazan, and Denver Co. Internal
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November
19 , 2015
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December
2014
April 2013
November
2011
November
2010
November
20 , 2008
th
November
18 , 2006
th
November
17 , 2006
th
November
19 , 2000
th
Monitor Nicolas Mitchell.
“The Anthropology of Police: Challenges and Opportunities” Roundtable organized
with William Garriott for the Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
Denver, Co.
“Thinking Through Police, Producing Anthropological Theory: ethnography as a tool
for critical thought.” Panel organized for the Anthropological Association
Annual Meetings, Washington, DC.
“Bureaucracy as Practical Ethics: attending to moments of ethical problematization
through ethnography.” Panel organized for the American Ethnological Society
& Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Spring Meeting Chicago,
Illinois
“‘The Social,’ This Time: Traces, Tidemarks & Legacies of Social Analysis.” American
Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Montreal, Quebec. Session CoOrganizer (with Stephanie Lloyd).
“Cops & Canons: What Is The Anthropology Of Policing And What Is It Good For?”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA.
Session Co-Organizer (with William Garriott).
“How Is Anthropology Going? An Inquiry into Movement, Mode and Method in the
Contemporary World” American Anthropological Association Annual
Meetings, San Francisco, CA. Session Co-Organizer (with Chris Vasantkumar
& Mattias Viktorin). Sponsored by the American Ethnological Society.
“Field/Work: Work as an Object of Anthropological Inquiry Beyond "Ethnos"
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, San Jose, CA.
Session Co-Organizer (with Zeynep Gursel & Daromir Rudnyckyj). Sponsored
by the Society for the Anthropology of Work.
“‘Law’: a faculty/graduate student workshop” American Anthropological Association
Annual Meetings, San Jose, CA. Co-Organizer. Sponsored by the Association
for Legal and Political Anthropology.
Studying Up, Down and Sideways: U.S. Ethnography as an Anthropological
Reimagining of “Insides.” American Anthropological Association Annual
Meetings, San Francisco, CA. Session Co-Organizer. Sponsored by the
Society for the Anthropology of North America.
LECTURE, CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP INVITATIONS
November
20 , 2015
th
April 2015
November
2014
January
2014
November
2013
September
2013
February
2013
“Points of Crossing, Moments of Inspection: Assembling the Impact of Alejandro
Lugo’s Anthropology” Paper given as part of the invited session “Alternative
Imaginings of Class, Gender and Capitalism: Works and Careers Inspired by
Alejandro Lugo” sponsored by the Association of Latina and Latino
Anthropologists and the Society for Latin American and Caribbean
Anthropology at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
Denver Co.
“The Anthropology of Police” presented at the conference “Global Policing” held at
Oxford University. Organized by Ian Loader, Ben Bradford, Beatrice
Jauregui, and Jonny Steinberg.
Discussant for the panel “Justifiable Homicide” organized by Jennifer Carlson (U
Toronto).
“Electric Burns: attending to the microphysics of police practice” University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor SocioCultural Workshop
Chair of the panel “Bodying Forth in Law” organized by Sameena Mulla (Marquette U)
and Sidharthan Maunaguru (University of Edinburgh and National University
of Singapore). Discussant: Veena Das (Johns Hopkins).
The Police Against Itself, “Suite I,” presented to the Faculty Research Proseminar of
the Department of Sociology. Anthropology & Criminology at Eastern
Michigan University.
“Community Policing,” presented to the Faculty Research Proseminar of the
Department of Sociology. Anthropology & Criminology at Eastern Michigan
University.
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September
2012
November
2010
July 2010
“Sense in Work: making moral direction in police work,” presented to the Faculty
Research Proseminar of the Department of Sociology. Anthropology &
Criminology at Eastern Michigan University.
"Taking the Field": thinking "police" through the social sciences, thinking "society"
through policing. Co-authored presentation with Brian Lande as part of the
invited session of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
“Business Encounters – Fieldwork Conversations” organized by Brian Moeran
(Copenhagen Business School) and Timothy de Waal Malefyt (BBDO, New
York).
“Police/State: what French police reform can tell us about contemporary state refigurations” as part of the XXI Colloquium for Police History: ‘Phenomena of
Erosion of the states’ monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force and of
the privatization of police competences’, University of Cologne, Germany.
“Electric Burns: the French Banlieue Riots and the Problem of a ‘Post-Social’ Police.”
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Swarthmore College.
“Electric Burns: the French Banlieue Riots and the Problem of a ‘Post-Social’ Police.”
Hurford Humanities Center, Haverford College.
“Transatlantic Perspectives on the Local Pursuit of Intelligence”, Conference
Organizers: Jacqueline Ross, University of Illinois College of Law, and Thierry
Delpeuch, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. Jointly sponsored by
the University of Illinois College of Law; the University of Illinois College of
Law’s Program in Criminal Law and Procedure; The University of Illinois
Police Training Institute; the University of Illinois European Union Center; the
United States Embassy in France; the Ministry of the Interior of France; the
Agence Nationale de Recherche; and France’s Centre National de Recherche
Scientifique
“Electric Burns: the banlieue riots and the problem of a post-social police in France.”
Paper presented to the University of Chicago Anthropology of Europe
Workshop.
“Electric Burns: governmentality and its discontents in the French banlieue riots.”
Paper given at workshop “Violence and Creativity” with Dr. Ashis Nandy.
Sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies, UC Berkeley.
“The Penal State” held at University of California Berkeley, Sociology Department and
Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Boalt Law School, UC-Berkeley;
Princeton University; and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Dissertation development workshop on “Democracy, Community, Citizenship” with
Dr. Wendy Brown. Sponsored by the SSRC and University of California
Berkeley, Institute of International Studies.
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nd
April 2 ,
2010
March 31 ,
2010
April 2-3,
2009
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March 31 ,
2009
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March 7 ,
2009
May 5-6,
2006
April 2427, 2003
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS GIVEN
December
2014
November
2014
May 2014
November
2013
April 2013
“Introduction: Beyond ‘police are good to think.’” Paper given at the American
Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington, DC as part of the
panel “Thinking Through Police, Producing Anthropological Theory:
ethnography as a tool for critical thought”.
“George Zimmerman and the paradox of ‘community policing’’. Paper given at the
American Society of Criminology Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA as part
of the panel “Justifiable Homicide” organized by Jennifer Carlson (U
Toronto).
“The imminence of police: rethinking the boundaries of "police" and "work" after the
social moment”. Paper given at the Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial
Meetings, Detroit, MI as part of the panel “Labor in Specie? Realizing
Multiple Lives of Work.” Organizers: Casey Golomski (University of
Massachusetts Boston) and Mrinalini Tankha (Brandeis University)
“Ad-justing the police: police work as practical moral philosophy”. Paper given at the
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL as part of
the panel “Doing Justice?” organized by Sarah Besky (Michigan).
Sense in Work: police administrative reform as ethical thought. American
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2011
September
2011
November
2010
September
2010
November
2009
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April 3 ,
2009
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March 31 ,
2009
November
20 , 2008
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November
20 , 2008
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April 2427, 2008
March 1314 , 2008
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March 1 ,
2007
November
19 , 2006
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November
18 , 2006
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May 6 ,
2006
April 1,
2006
April 2427, 2003
November
Ethnological Society & Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Spring
Meeting Chicago, Illinois
Discussant for the panel “‘The Social,’ This Time: Traces, Tidemarks & Legacies of
Social Analysis.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
Montreal, Quebec.
“Television coverage of the 2011 British ‘Riots’, Foucault's genealogy of neoliberalism
and ‘police as a public service’." Paper given at the International Crime, Media
and Popular Culture Conference (Indiana State University, Terre Haute)
“The Use and Abuse of La Police: Or, Uncanny Encounters with “French Theory”
among the Police Nationale” in the session “Foucault et al. from Paris to
California and Back Again: The Creolisation of "French Theory"” organized by
Stephanie Lloyd and Baptiste Moutaud.
“Figures of Urban Anomie.” Paper given at the International Crime, Media and
Popular Culture Conference (Indiana State University, Terre Haute)
“Police/State” Paper given at the American Anthropological Association Annual
Meetings, Philadelphia, PA as part of the panel “Police Power: Ethnographic
Perspectives” organized by William Garriott (James Madison). Discussant:
Mindie Lazarus Black (Temple).
“The problem of a “post-social” police in France.” Paper presented at the conference
“Transatlantic Perspectives on the Local Pursuit of Intelligence”, held at the
University of Illinois College of Law in Urbana-Champaign.
“Electric Burns: the banlieue riots and the problem of a post-social police in France.”
Paper presented to the University of Chicago Anthropology of Europe
Workshop.
“Introduction” Paper given at American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
San Francisco, CA as part of the panel “How Is Anthropology Going? An
Inquiry into Movement, Mode and Method in the Contemporary World”.
“Putting the Police into Motion: Rhetoric and Political Form in France” Paper given at
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA as
part of the panel “How Is Anthropology Going? An Inquiry into Movement,
Mode and Method in the Contemporary World”
“Moral Divides: The Problem of Policing ‘After the Social’” Paper given at the Soyuz
Postsocialist Cultural Studies conference “Contemporary Critical Inquiry
Through the Lens of Postsocialism,” Berkeley, CA.
“Right Is as Right Does: What's So "Right" about Nicolas Sarkozy's Reform of the
French Police Nationale?.” Paper given at the conference “Toward a
Comparative Discussion on "Rightist" Movements,” CUNY Graduate Center.
“Electric Burns.” Paper given at the Institute of European Studies, University of
California at Berkeley.
“Neo-liberal Policing and Its Malcontents: the reform of the French Police Nationale
and the banlieue riots of 2005.” Paper given at American Anthropological
Association Annual Meetings, San Jose, CA as part of the panel “The Force of
Standards: rules and regulations as imagined and inscribed commodity”.
“Introduction: Field and Work in Anthropology.” Paper given at American
Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, San Jose, CA as part of the
panel “Field/Work: Work as an Object of Anthropological Inquiry Beyond
‘Ethnos’”.
“Reforming the police de proximité in France.” Paper given at the conference: “The
Penal State” held at University of California Berkeley, Sociology Department
and Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Boalt Law School, UC-Berkeley;
Princeton University; and the Russell Sage Foundation.
“Tasers, Tantrums and the Tools of Liberty.” Paper given at the conference "Alles in
Ordnung?: Civil Order and its Breakdowns”, Department of Germanic
Languages & Literatures, Columbia University in the City of New York.
“Forming a friendlier ‘ flic ’: the emergence of community policing in France.” Paper
Given, “Democracy, Community, Citizenship” dissertation workshop.
University of California Berkeley, Institute of International Studies.
“Chicago & Paris.” Paper Given at the American Anthropological Association Annual
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Meetings, San Francisco, CA.
GUEST LECTURES / CONSULTANCIES
Fall 2011
March
2010
April 2009
March 23,
2009
March
2007
December
2006
May 2006
April 2006
Spring
2006
May 2004
February
6, 2003
Consultant for Time.com regarding Oakland, CA protests and riots
Consultant for a 91.3 WCUW news segment on the cultural significance of Hip-Hop in
France
Discussant for the panel “Intelligence-Led Policing in the Police Curriculum” as part of
the conference “Transatlantic Perspectives on the Local Pursuit of
Intelligence” held at University of Illinois College of Law.
“Race and Ethnicity: Is The City a Melting Pot or a Crucible of Conflict?” Guest
lecture to Dr. Richard Gendron’s course, Sociology of Urban Life, Assumption
College (Worcester, MA).
“Governmentality, the State and the French Riots.” Guest lecture to Dr. Stanley
Brandes’ course, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology , UC Berkeley.
Discussant for “Power” panel, as part of a conference on undergraduate research,
University of California, Berkeley
Consultant for the Frontline documentary “France: The Precarious Generation”
“The King’s Two Bodies: Heirarchy and Distance at the École Nationale de Police à
Saint-Malo”, Guest Lecture, Anthropology 169B Anthropological Research
Methods , University of California, Berkeley.
Interview with The Berklyean Magazine regarding research on the 2005 French riots
“Le problème de la police en France” Visiting International Doctoral Researcher
Seminar. Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po). Institut
d’etudes politiques de Paris (IEP).
“Police, Profession, Urban Ethnography: the figure of ‘the policeman’ in urban
anthropology.” Dissertation research seminar. Dr. Allan Pred, supervising
professor. University of California, Berkeley.
WORKING GROUPS & ACADEMIC BLOGS
2009present
2009-2010
2008present
2008
2005-2008
1999-2001
Anthropoliteia: critical perspectives on crime, police security and law
(http://anthropoliteia.net), Editor
Anthropology Now! Online (http://anthronow.com/)
Kevin Karpiak’s Blog: a blog about post-social policing, anthropology, science studies
and more (http://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com)
Diogenes’ Lab Blog, a blog of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research
Collaboratory (http://diogeneslab.wordpress.com/)
Police Studies, UC Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities Working Group
Ethnography in the U.S.: the “Insider” Imaginary, UC Berkeley Townsend Center for
the Humanities Working Group
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
•
American Anthropological Association
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Society for the Anthropology of Work
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Society for Cultural Anthropology
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American Ethnological Society
American Society of Criminology
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2014present
2014present
2014present
2013present
2013present
2011-14
2012present
2011present
2010present
2012present
2011present
2010present
2010-11
2000-1
1999-2001
1996-1998
1996-1998
Reviewer for NYU Press
Reviewer for the journal Public Culture
Anthropology Curriculum Committee, Eastern Michigan University
SAC Research & Ethics Committee, Eastern Michigan University
Reviewer for the journal City & Society
Representative to Eastern Michigan University’s Grading & Grievance Committee
SAC representative to Eastern Michigan University’s Graduate Council and the
Graduate Program Support Sub-Committee
Graduate Curriculum Committee, Eastern Michigan University Department of
Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology.
Representative to Eastern Michigan University’s University Human Subjects Review
Committee (UHSRC), vulnerable populations specialist (prisons & prisoners)
Reviewer for Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)
Reviewer for the journal Ethnography
Criminology Curriculum Committee, Eastern Michigan University
Global Learning Seminar, Eastern Michigan University
Co-President, Anthropology Graduate Organization for Research and Action
(AGORA), UC Berkeley
Journal of the Kroeber Anthropological Society, UC Berkeley
Steward Journal of Anthropology, U Illinois
President, Undergraduate Association of Student Anthropologists (UGASA), U Illinois
EXPERIENCE
FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE
Fall 2012present
Various Locales in Chicago, Michigan, France and interspace
Preliminary ethnographic fieldwork on police use of technology, especially social media
Fall 2009 –
Spring
2010
Winter
2005
Worcester, MA
Fieldwork among the Worcester City Council and at Worcester Crime Watch meetings
Summer
2003 – Fall
2005
Paris and various other location in France
Ethnographic dissertation project: “Neo-liberal forms of Governmentality through the
practice of ‘Community Policing’ in France”
Fall 2001 –
Summer
2002
Winter
2001
Chicago, IL
News Affairs Division, Chicago Police Dept.
Paris, France
Ethnographic project concerning the Fall 2005 banlieue riots
Paris, France
Initial planning for more extensive research to be conducted in 2003-2005
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009-2010
Visiting Assistant Professor
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2008
2007-2009
Assumption College (Worcester, MA)
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Lecturer
University of California at Davis
•
Anthropology 130A : Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
Instructor
University of California at Berkeley
•
Anthropology 3AC : Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
•
Anthropology R5B : Writing Police/Power
2005
Enseignant
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po, Paris)
•
Cour d’ouverture: Social Scientific Research Methods, Ethnography
2002
Adjunct Professor
Richard M. Daley College, Chicago, IL
•
Social Sciences 101: Introduction to the Social Sciences
19992009
Graduate Student
Instructor
University of California at
Berkeley
•
•
•
19992009
Reader
University of California at
Berkeley
•
•
Sociology 5: Evaluation of Research Methods
(Dr. Irene Bloemraad)
Anthropology 3: Introduction to Social &
Cultural Anthropology (Dr. Stanley Brandes,
Dr. Kathleen Erwin, Dr. Nelson Graburn, Dr.
Aihwa Ong, Dr. Liu Xin, Dr. Alexei Yurchak)
American Studies 10: Introduction to American
Studies (Dr. Jennifer Michael)
Anthropology 180: Celebrity and Power (Dr.
Laura Hubbard)
Anthropology 156: Anthropology of Religion
(Dr. Stefania Pandolfo)
SCHOLAR IN-RESIDENCE
20032005
Visiting International Doctoral Researcher
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) / Institut
d’études politiques de Paris (IEP)
•
Project Tutor: Didier Bigo
20012002
Visiting Scholar
University of Chicago
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2001-2002
Research Assistant
Chicago, IL
Prof. Gary Herrigel, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago
2001
Researcher / Consultant
Chicago, IL
Columbia College Center for Arts Policy
2001,
1998-1999
Research Assistant
1998-1999
Membership Director
Chicago, IL
Field Museum of Natural History, Center for Cultural Understanding and Change
Chicago, IL
The Peace Museum
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