Speakers & Resources

Below are the organizers and featured speakers (subject to change) at Resisting Arrest: A Conference on Policing and Insurgency, along with some of their relevant writing.

Spencer Ackerman
National Security Editor, The Guardian

• “The Disappeared: Chicago Police Detain Americans at Abuse-laden ‘Black Site’,” The Guardian (February 2015)

Cherrell Brown
National Organizer, Equal Justice USA

• “Solidarity From Ferguson to Palestine and Back,” Huffington Post (February 2015)

David Correia
Associate Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico

• “Albuquerque Spring: A Season of Police Violence and Civil Disobedience,” Weekly Alibi (June 2014)

Sally E. Hadden
Associate Professor of History, Western Michigan University

• Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, Harvard University Press (2003)

Christina B. Hanhardt
Associate Professor of American Studies and LGBT Studies, University of Maryland

• Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Duke University Press (2013)

Samuel Markwell
PhD Student in American Studies, NYU

• “APD in Context: Part of an American Tradition of Publicly Sanctioned Killing,” La Jicarita
  (May 2014)

Naomi Murakawa
Associate Professor, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University

• The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America, Oxford University Press (2014)

Stuart Schrader
PhD Candidate in American Studies, NYU

• “Policing Empire,” Jacobin (September 2014)

Nikhil Pal Singh
Associate Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis and History, NYU

• “The Whiteness of Police,” American Quarterly (December 2014)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Assistant Professor, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University

• “No More Eric Garners,” Jacobin (December 2014)

Akinyele Umoja
Associate Professor of African-American Studies, Georgia State University

• We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement (NYU Press, 2013)

Tyler Wall
Assistant Professor, School of Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University

• “Legal Terror and the Police Dog,” Radical Philosophy (November-December 2014)

Maya Wind
PhD Student in American Studies, NYU