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The Antiracist Research & Policy Center is excited to announce the launch of its 2024 faculty research collaboratory, “Abolition Everywhere.” This interdisciplinary research cluster brings AU scholars of policing and the carceral state together with AU scholars deploying abolitionist frameworks to stage critical interventions on a range of racial justice issues, including education, climate justice, urban gentrification, and reproductive justice. Their collaboration will be guided by two related questions:
Toolkit: Six Election Takeaways through an Antiracist Lens
Race and The Elections: On October 23, ARPC held a panel discussing the intersections of race and the elections. Faculty panelists discussed key issues for racial justice, how they are reflected in the current election, how they play out in local elections and communities, and how to mobilize beyond the elections. Watch the recording here. Read our toolkit: Six Ways Racial Justice is on the Ballot.. and what you can do about it to learn more.
Photo: Vlad Tchompalov via Unsplash
Reproductive Justice: ARPC is part of an ongoing initiative to explore reproductive freedom in a post-Dobbs world. Check out the resource guide from our Spring 2024 event, or watch this conversation exploring the intersections of reproductive and abolitionist thinking to learn ways to dig deeper and take action.
Sara Clarke Kaplan
2021–2025 ARPC Executive Director
As a social anthropologist working in the United States, my research examines the imbrication of grassroots resistance and state repression. Within this broad area of inquiry, my present work explores…
Dr. TaLisa J. Carter has dedicated her life to understanding the interactions of deviance, social organizations, colorism, and race/ethnicity. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Justic…
Dr. Kirstie Dorr is an associate professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies and Literature. An interdisciplinary scholar, her research and teaching are anchored in Black, Indigenous, and …
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace researches and teaches agricultural policy and agrarian geography. Her work focuses on domestic and international contexts and impacts of US food and farm policy--from critical…
I am a cultural anthropologist and critical geographer whose work focuses on eviction, race, displacement and the spatial and temporal dynamics of contemporary urban social movements I am broadly inte…
Dr. Jane Palmer is an Associate Professor who teaches research methods, statistics, and social policy-oriented classes (child & family policy; legal & policy responses to gender-based violence). Sh…
Malini Ranganathan is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University, and a political ecologist and geographer by training. She is a faculty affiliate of the Depa…
Brenda V. Smith is professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law and Director of the Community Economic Development Law Clinic. From 2018-2020, Smith served as Senior Associ…
Lily Wong is an Associate Professor in the departments of Literature (LIT) and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies (CRGC) at American University. She also serves as an Associate Director of Faculty…