Kevin Karpiak

Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology

Expertise: Police Administration, Civilian Oversight Boards, Community Policing, Police Reform, Disparities in policing, Comparative policing

About

Dr. Karpiak is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. He is the founder and Director of Southeastern Michigan Criminal Justice Policy Research Project (SMART), co-editor of the Cornell University Press monograph series Police/Worlds: studies in security, crime and governance and General Editor of the blog Anthropoliteia: critical perspectives on police, security, crime, law and punishment around the world.  He received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (2009), for which he conducted a multi-sited ethnography of French community policing reform. Since 2016 he has been conducting research on police oversight commissions in Washtenaw County, MI., and currently serves on the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office "21st Century Policing Compliance Commission." He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles & chapters as well as edited a special issue of the journal Theoretical Criminology and the volume The Anthropology of Police with Routledge press.

Previous Titles

  • Director, Southeast Michigan Criminal Justice Policy Research Project (SMART)

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