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FORREST STUART Stanford University Department of Sociology 450 Jane Stanford Way – Building 120 Stanford, CA 94305
Email: [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
2019— Associate Professor of Sociology, Stanford University.
Director, Stanford Ethnography Lab. Advisory Board Member, African and African American Studies. Affiliate, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Affiliate, Center for Global Ethnography. Affiliate, Program in American Studies. Affiliate, Program in Urban Studies.
2018—2019 Associate Professor of Sociology and the College, University of Chicago.
2012—2018 Assistant Professor of Sociology and the College, University of Chicago.
EDUCATION
2012 Ph.D., Sociology, University of California—Los Angeles.
2008 M.A., Sociology, University of California—Los Angeles.
2006 M.S., Justice, Law & Society, American University.
2004 B.A., Politics, University of California—Santa Cruz.
PUBLICATIONS
Books 2020 Stuart, Forrest. Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Awards: Association of American Publishers PROSE Award Finalist.
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Reviews: Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal; The Economist; Ethnic and Racial Studies; The Sociological Review; Times Higher Education.
Features: BBC; Chicago Magazine; Chicago Tribune; GQ; The Intelligence; National Public Radio; Vice.
2016 Stuart, Forrest. Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Awards: American Sociological Association Robert E. Park Book Award (2017); CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award (2017); Gordon J. Laing Book Prize (2018); American Sociological Association Law Section Book Award Honorable Mention (2018); American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award (2019).
Reviews: American Journal of Sociology; Canadian Journal of Sociology; Chicago Reader; Choice; Contemporary Sociology; Criminal Justice Review; Los Angeles Review of Books; Los Angeles Times Book Review; Policing and Society; Public Administration Review; Shelf Awareness; Social Forces; Social Service Review; Society; Theoretical Criminology; Theory in Action; Times Higher Education.
Features: Mother Jones; National Public Radio; Publisher’s Weekly (named as a “Big Indie Book of 2016”); South Side Weekly.
Articles and Book Chapters Forthcoming Moore, Caylin, and Forrest Stuart. “Gang Research in the Twenty-First Century.” Annual Review of Criminology.
2021 Collins, Charles, Forrest Stuart, and Patrick Janulis. “Policing Gentrification or Policing Displacement?: Testing the Relationship between Order Maintenance Policing and Neighborhood Change in Los Angeles.” Urban Studies. doi:10.1177/0042098021993354
2020 White, Kailey, Forrest Stuart, and Shannon L. Morrissey. “Whose Lives Matter?: Race, Space, and the Devaluation of Homicide Victims in Minority Communities.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity doi:10.1177/2332649220948184.
2020 Stuart, Forrest, Alicia Riley, and Hossein Pourreza. “A Human-Machine Partnered Approach for Identifying Social Media Signals of Elevated Traumatic Grief in Chicago Gang Territories.” PLOS ONE 15(7): e0236625.
2020 Stuart, Forrest. “Code of the Tweet: Urban Gang Violence in the Social Media Age.” Social Problems 67 (2): 191-207.
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American Sociological Association Communication, Information Technology, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) Section Article Award, 2020.
2018 Herbert, Steve, Katherine Beckett, and Forrest Stuart. “Policing Social Marginality: Contrasting Approaches.” Law and Social Inquiry 43 (4): 1491- 1513.
2018 Stuart, Forrest, and Ava Benezra. “Criminalized Masculinities: How Policing Shapes the Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Poor Black Communities.” Social Problems 65 (2): 174-190.
2017 Miller, Reuben Jonathan, and Forrest Stuart. “Carceral Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Responsibility in the Age of Mass Supervision.” Theoretical Criminology 21 (4): 532-548.
2017 Stuart, Forrest. “Reflexivity: Introspection, Positionality, and the Self as Research Instrument—Toward a Model of Abductive Reflexivity.” Approaches to Ethnography, edited by Colin Jerolmack and Shamus Khan. New York: Oxford University Press.
2017 Stuart, Forrest, and Reuben Jonathan Miller. “The Prisonized Old Head: Intergenerational Socialization and the Fusion of Ghetto and Prison Culture.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 46 (6): 673-698.
2016 Stuart, Forrest, and Steve Herbert. “The Police and Inequality: Tale of Two Cities.” The Sage Handbook of Global Policing, edited by Ben Bradford, Beatrice Jauregui, Ian Loader, and Jonny Steinberg. London: Sage. (equal authorship)
2016 Stuart, Forrest. “Becoming ‘Copwise’: Policing, Culture, and the Collateral Consequences of Street-Level Criminalization.” Law and Society Review 50 (2): 279-313. [Lead Article]
Law and Society Association Article Award, 2017.
2015 Stuart, Forrest, Amada Armenta, and Melissa Osborne. “Legal Control of Marginal Groups.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 11: 235-254.
2015 Stuart, Forrest. “On the Streets, Under Arrest: Policing Homelessness in the Twenty-First Century.” Sociology Compass 9 (11): 940-950.
2014 Stuart, Forrest. “From ‘Rabble Management’ to ‘Recovery Management’: Policing Homelessness in Marginal Urban Space.” Urban Studies 51 (9): 1909- 1925.
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2013 Deener, Andrew, Steve Erie, Vlad Kogan, and Forrest Stuart. “Planning LA: The New Politics of Neighborhood Development and Downtown Revitalization.” In New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future, edited by David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge. New York: Oxford University Press. (equal authorship)
2011 Stuart, Forrest. “Constructing Police Abuse after Rodney King: How Skid Row Residents and the LAPD Contest Video Evidence.” Law and Social Inquiry 36 (2): 327-353. [Lead Article]
Law and Society Association Graduate Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention), 2016.
2011 Stuart, Forrest. “Race, Space, and the Regulation of Surplus Labor: Policing African-Americans in Los Angeles’ Skid Row.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 13 (2): 197-212.
2010 Stuart, Forrest. “From the Shop to the Streets: UNITE HERE Organizing in Los Angeles Hotels.” In Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy, edited by Ruth Milkman, Victor Narro, and Joshua Bloom. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
2008 Saguy, Abigail, and Forrest Stuart. “Culture and Law: Beyond a Paradigm of Cause and Effect.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 619: 149-164.
Book Reviews 2015 Stuart, Forrest. Review of Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship, by Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, and Donald Haider- Markel. Theoretical Criminology 19 (1): 133-135.
2014 Stuart, Forrest. Review of God’s Gangs: Barrio Ministry, Masculinity, and Gang Recovery, by Edward Orozco Flores. American Journal of Sociology 120 (2): 613-615.
2014 Stuart, Forrest. Review of Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People, by Jürgen von Mahs. American Journal of Sociology 119 (5): 1489-1491.
2012 Stuart, Forrest. Review of Hobos, Hustlers and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco, by Teresa Gowan. Sociological Forum 27 (3): 793-797.
Reports, Essays, and Other Writing 2021 Stuart, Forrest. “Urban Ethnography.” Oxford Bibliographies.
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2017 Stuart, Forrest. “Public Criminology for Whom?: Bringing ‘Organic’ Public Scholarship Out of the Shadows.” The Criminologist 42 (2): 1-6.
2016 Stuart, Forrest. “How Zero Tolerance Policing Pits the Poor against the Poor: Lessons from Los Angeles’ Skid Row.” Mother Jones. August.
2016 Stuart, Forrest, and Elly Fishman. “Dispatches from the Rap Wars: My 18 Months Inside One of Chicago’s Most Notorious Gangs.” Chicago Magazine. October.
Nominated for the Lisagor Award for Best Feature Story, 2016.
2016 Stuart, Forrest. “Watching the Police: Let’s All Start Filming, Early and Often.” Wired Magazine. October.
2008 Blasi, Gary, and Forrest Stuart. “Has the Safer Cities Initiative in Skid Row Reduced Serious Crime?” Los Angeles: UCLA School of Law.
Work in Progress Under Review Bell, Monica, Katherine Beckett, and Forrest Stuart “Investing in Alternatives: Three Logics of Criminal Legal System Replacement.” UC Irvine Law Review.
Under Review Stuart, Forrest, and Katherine Beckett. “Un-Policing Behavioral Health: A Framework for Reducing Police Harms and Improving Outcomes for Vulnerable Populations.” (article manuscript)
Under Review Beckett, Katherine, and Forrest Stuart. “Dignity in the Management of Drug Addiction: The Case of Seattle’s LEAD Program.” (article manuscript)
Under Review Stuart, Forrest. “The Unintended Effects of Community Policing.” (article manuscript)
In Progress Stuart, Forrest, Andrew Miller, and Charles Collins. “Network Epistemics: How Youth in Violent Neighborhoods Discover and Disclose Network Characteristics.” (article manuscript)
In Progress Stuart, Forrest, Hesu Yoon, and Francine Stephens. “Cultural Diffusion and the Appropriation of Urban Slang on Twitter.” (article manuscript)
HONORS AND AWARDS
2020 MacArthur Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. 2020 Gordon and Dailey Pattee Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University. 2020 American Sociological Association Communications, Information Technology, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) Section Article Award (“Code of the Tweet”).
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2019 Faculty Research Fellowship, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University. 2019 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award (Down, Out, and Under Arrest). 2018 American Sociological Association Law Section Book Award (Honorable Mention) (Down, Out, and Under Arrest). 2018 Gordon J. Laing Book Prize (Down, Out, and Under Arrest). 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award (Down, Out, and Under Arrest). 2017 American Sociological Association Robert E. Park Award for Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology (Down, Out, and Under Arrest). 2017 University of Chicago Women’s Board Research Grant. 2017 Law and Society Association Article Award. 2015 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. 2015 Social Sciences Divisional Grant, University of Chicago. 2014 Ethnography Project Junior Fellowship, Yale University. 2014 Urban Health Initiative Faculty Fellowship. 2014 Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society Seed Grant, University of Chicago. 2014 Social Sciences Divisional Grant, University of Chicago. 2013 Social Sciences Divisional Grant, University of Chicago. 2011 John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. 2011 Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA. 2011 Law and Society Association Best Graduate Student Paper Prize (Honorable Mention). 2010 American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship. 2010 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (Alternate). 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA. 2010 Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Award. 2010 Department of Sociology Graduate Teaching Award, UCLA. 2009 Peter Kollock Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award, UCLA. 2008 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award, UCLA. 2007 UC Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences Summer Research Award.
INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS
2020 “Ballad of the Bullet.” • Yale University – Urban Ethnography Workshop, October. • Yale University – Center for Empirical Research on Social Inequality, October. • University of California, Santa Barbara – Gender Workshop, October. • Northwestern University – Crime, Law, and Society Workshop, November. • University of Pennsylvania – Urban Studies Annual Lecture, November. • Chicago Humanities Festival, November.
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“Fields, Fabrications, and Felonies.” • Stanford University – Platformed Creation Virtual Symposium, October.
“Un-Policing Behavioral Health.” • University of Chicago – Reimagining/Reinventing Policing Symposium, July.
“Toward a Digital Urban Ethnography?” • Stanford University – Center for Global Ethnography, January.
2019 “Down, Out, and Under Arrest.” • Boston University – Department of Sociology, February.
“The Promise and Peril of Citizen Police Videos.” • UCLA – Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture, February.
2018 “Violence in the Digital Age.” • UC—Berkley, Center for the Study of Law and Society, September.
“Down, Out, and Under Arrest.” • Pomona College – Department of Sociology, March. • UC—Irvine – Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, April. • Miami University – Penny Lecture Series, April. • Colorado College – O’Connor Lecture, September.
2017 “Violence in the Digital Age.” • Harvard University – Poverty, Violence, and the Policy Response Symposium, January. • American Bar Foundation, October. • University of Chicago Paris Center – “Black Metropolis” Symposium, November.
“Down, Out, and Under Arrest.” • Ohio State University – Department of Sociology, February. • Northwestern University – Department of Sociology, May. • Stanford University – Department of Sociology, October. • University of Washington—Bothell – SIAS, October. • University of Texas—Austin – Department of Sociology, October.
“Performing Innocence: How Homeless Individuals Respond to Policing.” • University of California—Riverside – Homelessness, Crime, and Public Policy Symposium, February.
2016 “Policing, Culture, and the Collateral Consequences of Street-Level Criminalization.”
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• UCLA – Department of Sociology, January. • Duke University – Department of Sociology, January. • University of Kansas – Hall Center for the Humanities, September. • Cornell University – Department of Policy Analysis and Management, September.
2015 “Problematizing Community Policing.” • University of Chicago – City/Cité: A Transatlantic Exchange, November.
“Confidentiality, Journalists, and Boxes of Donuts: How Do We Evaluate Ethnography?” • Northwestern University – Politics of Ethnography Symposium, November.
“Who is Mr. Ticket?” • Yale University – Policing Post Ferguson Conference, April.
2014 “Cop Wisdom and the Emerging Cultural Context in Criminalized Urban Neighborhoods.” • University of Pennsylvania – Department of Sociology, December. • Yale University – Department of Sociology, October. • New York University – Department of Sociology, October. • University of California Berkeley – Department of Sociology, September.
“Becoming ‘Copwise’”: How the Urban Poor Negotiate Hyperpolicing in Everyday Street Life.” • Yale University – Yale Ethnography Conference, April. • CSU Fullerton – Department of Sociology, March 2014. • Northwestern University – Urban Sociology Workshop, February.
2013 “Becoming ‘Copwise’”: How the Urban Poor Negotiate Hyperpolicing in Everyday Street Life.” • University of Chicago – Urban Network Emerging Scholars Lecture, November.
“‘Cooling off the Block’: Informal Social Control in a Hyper-Policed Neighborhood” • Ohio State University – Racial Democracy, Crime, and Justice Network, July.
“Policing Urban Poverty in the 21st Century.” • American Bar Foundation, January. • Northern Illinois University – Department of Sociology, January.
2012 “Policing Urban Poverty in the 21st Century.”
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• University of Illinois, Chicago – Department of Sociology, November.
2011 “Policing Rock Bottom: Regulation, Rehabilitation, and Resistance on Skid Row.” • Brown University – Department of Sociology and Urban Studies, November. • University of Chicago – Department of Sociology, November. • University of Wisconsin, Madison – Department of Sociology, November. • University of California, Irvine – Criminology, Law and Society, October. • University of Denver – Department of Sociology and Criminology, October.
2010 “Local Solutions to Global Economic and Ecological Crises: Gardening and Urban Farming in the Black Community of Los Angeles.” • CSU Long Beach (with Edna Bonacich).
TEACHING
Stanford University The Social Life of Neighborhoods The Sociology of Music Ethnographic and Fieldwork Methods Qualitative and Fieldwork Methods Workshop
University of Chicago Power, Identity, Resistance Urban Ethnography Crime and the City Urban Structure and Process Doctoral Writing Seminar
University of California—Los Angeles Introduction to Sociology Ethnography in Los Angeles Sociology of Deviant Behavior Sociology of Race and Labor
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Book Review Editor American Journal of Sociology (2016—2018)
Editorial Board
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Qualitative Sociology (2019—) Theoretical Criminology (2018—) Sociological Theory (2016—2020) American Journal of Sociology (2012—2018) Law and Social Inquiry (2012—2016)
Reviewer American Journal of Sociology City and Community Journal of Poverty Law and Social Inquiry Law and Society Review Punishment and Society Social Forces Social Problems Sociological Forum Theoretical Criminology
Member American Society of Criminology American Sociological Association Law and Society Association Society for the Study of Social Problems
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