Peer-Reviewed Articles & Chapters
2025. “Strategies for Seeding Police Abolition in a Minefield.” Feminist Pedagogy 6(4). Special issue on “Abolitionist Principles and Pedagogy: Teaching to Build the World Anew.”
2024. “Creating Power from Failure: Policing Stock Theft in Colonial East Africa.” Legal Pluralism & Critical Social Analysis. 56(3): 349-369. Special issue on “Remembering Keebet von Benda-Beckmann.”
2024. “The Colonial Legacy of Policing as Statebuilding.” In The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young, edited by Scott Straus and Aili Tripp. University of Wisconsin Press.
2023. “The Politics of Words: A Survey Experiment on ‘Defund the Police,'” with David Nehlsen, Jacob Lau, Jared Knutson, Jake Wesner, Mackenzie Klug, Gage Beck, Brady Reinhard, and Aaron Weinschenk. The Social Science Journal. Online first.
2022. “‘Police Fire on Rioters’: Everyday Counterinsurgency in a Colonial Capital.” Small Wars & Insurgencies 33(4-5): 633-53. Special issue on “Global Counterinsurgency and the Police-Military Continuum.”
2021. “Women’s Rights and Critical Junctures in Constitutional Reform in Africa (1951-2019),” with Aili Tripp. African Affairs 120(480): 365-89.
“Replication Data for: Women’s Rights and Critical Junctures in Constitutional Reform in Africa (1951-2019),” with Aili Tripp. Harvard Dataverse, V1. 2021.
Other Publications & Reviews
2023. Review of Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World, edited by George B. Radics and Pablo Ciocchini. Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis 55(3): 469-74.
2022. “Political Violence Targeting LGBT+ Communities in Africa.” In Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions, edited by Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee, 8th ed. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
2022. “Criminal Justice Reform?” Live-Blogging the State of the Union, CAHSS and Effect, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.
2021. “Political Violence Targeting LGBT+ Communities in Africa.” The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) with Timothy Lay.
2021. “Degrowth: Less Resource Use for More Wellbeing and Resilience.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs with Susan Paulson.
2016. “How to Count What Counts: TIS the Season for Syllabi Metrics?” International Studies Quarterly with Michael Tierney.
2014. “How Does Aid Impact Democratic Change in Africa?” AidData Blog: The First Tranche.
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