Projects
The Social Anatomy of a Deportation Regime (SADR) is a research working group based out of The Center on Social Change and Transgressive Studies at the John Jay College for Criminal Justice in New York. It is comprised of academics and PhD students whose teaching and research focuses on crimmigration, border control, migrant detention, migrant resistance, as well as the class, gender and racial dynamics which interweave these social issues. Members of the group came together in the Summer of 2018 due to both the lack of in-depth analysis on the deportation regime in New York City, and coordinated content production on its various issues in pursuit of social change.
The Critical Social History Project builds on the discussion introduced by E.H. Carr in What is History? (1961) and developed by Bosworth (2001) and Mooney (2014) about the importance of learning from the past and the need to keep an “eye” on what lessons social science disciplines can learn from history, as well as, the input into history that can be gleaned from social science. History can help shed light on the origins and functions of inequality and exclusion, especially in the shoring up of the neo-liberal state, and the level that this persists in the present period.
With an unprecedented archive of cataloged and digitized critical criminology materials dating back over fifty years, this project will aim to breathe life back into this sidelined field through public facing materials and resources.
The Historical Memory Project is an affiliated research project which documents and advocates for truth, historical memory, justice, and public access to state violence, war, and genocide archives in Latin America. We collect and disseminate evidence, artifacts, and materials from the Cold War years, with special attention given to their aftermath and the legacies that they have created. The organization invites its audience to join it in bearing witness not only to state violence, war, and genocide, but also to heroic struggles and the triumph of the tireless spirit.
The Social Change and Transgressive Studies Project is the beneficiary of a grants awarded by the OAR Funding program, at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Professional Staff Congress was (PSC) at CUNY. The OAR aims to fund various projects through John Jay’s internal funding programs. PSC-CUNY seeks to enhance the University's role as a research institution, further the professional growth and development of its faculty, and provide support for the established and junior scholar.You can learn more about these opportunities by emailing the OAR Funding Program at oar@jjay.cuny.edu or the Professional Staff Congress CUNY at psc@pscmail.org