About Me

Kaden Paulson-Smith

Assistant Teaching Professor of Crime & Justice Studies

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

I am an Assistant Teaching Professor of Crime & Justice Studies and an affiliate in Black Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. My research and teaching crosscut critical carceral studies, law and society, African politics, and feminist and postcolonial studies. I was previously an Assistant Professor of Democracy & Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. I received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a B.A. in Government from Smith College. You can find my work published in African Affairs, Feminist Pedagogy, Legal Pluralism & Critical Social Analysis, Small Wars & Insurgencies, and The Social Science Journal.