Andrea Boyles is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Tulane University. She is also a criminologist and author of the books You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America (UC Press 2019) and Race, Place, and Suburban Policing: Too Close for Comfort (UC Press 2015).
As a feminist, race scholar and ethnographer, Boyles' work accounts for social inequality and (in)justice regarding, but not limited to the following: race; the intersection of race, gender, and class; Black citizen-police conflict; crime; racial-spatial politics, segregation, and containment; poverty; social ties; and resistance.
Most Fridays, Newcomb Institute hosts a lunch and talk at noon in the Diboll Gallery on the 3rd floor of The Commons. All are welcome.
