Dr. Jan Haldipur
Main Courses:
- SOC 342 – Critical Criminology (also offered as a Study Abroad course in the Netherlands)
- SOC 333 - The Sociology of Sport
- SOC 436 – Racism, Power, & Inequality
- SOC 100 – Principles of Sociology
Research & Teaching Interests:
- Urban Sociology; Crime, Law, and Deviance; Race and Ethnic Relations; Qualitative Methods; Sociology of Sport
Education:
- The George Washington University (GWU), BA, Sociology
- The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), MSW
- The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), Ph.D., Sociology
Overview of Dr. Haldipur’s Research:
Dr. Haldipur’s research explores inequality in the criminal justice system. His first book, No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing (NYU Press), draws from approximately three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in the South Bronx and examines the impact of aggressive policing tactics like “Stop, Question, and Frisk” on neighborhood residents. This book went on to receive the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice.
His most recent book, Prison Hashtags: Incarceration, Reentry and Digital Identity (NYU Press), co-authored with Dr. Calvin John Smiley, tells the story of incarceration and reentry in America as seen through the images, videos, audio, and words of a group of people trying to make sense of it all on social media. For over six years, Haldipur and Smiley conducted a digital ethnography of the social media carceral landscape.
Additional research has appeared in academic journals such as Society, Race and Justice, Education Policy Analysis Archives, and Sociological Forum. Dr. Haldipur is also a founding editor of the Justice, Inequality, and the Digital World book series with NYU Press.
Prior to CSULB, Dr. Haldipur also worked at a prisoner reentry organization, where he studied barriers to employment among formerly incarcerated men and women. His scholarship has been featured in outlets such as the New York Times, GQ, and VOX.
