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faculty
Eric Larson, PhD he/him
Associate Professor / Chairperson
Crime & Justice Studies
Contact
508-910-6887
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Liberal Arts 399J
Education
| 2011 | Brown University | PhD in American Studies |
| 2004 | Brown University | MA in American Studies |
| 2002 | University of Colorado | MA in History |
Teaching
- Crime & Justice Studies
- Women & Gender Studies
- Black Studies
Teaching
Programs
Programs
- Black Studies
- Crime & Justice Studies BA
- Crime & Justice Studies Pre-Law
- Urban Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies BA
Teaching
Courses
An in-depth examination of the theoretical formulations, social movement contexts, and political praxes for the study of crime and justice. This will be pursued through a study of abolitionism across a variety of historical contexts and institutional and community settings in order to facilitate incisive critical thought on the most pressing social problems of our time.
Directed readings and analysis in selected topics.
An in-depth examination of the theoretical formulations, social movement contexts, and political praxes for the study of crime and justice. This will be pursued through a study of abolitionism across a variety of historical contexts and institutional and community settings in order to facilitate incisive critical thought on the most pressing social problems of our time.
Selected topics of contemporary relevance in the field of Crime and Justice studies. Active discussions, mini-lectures, filed simulations, student presentations, role-playing, guest speakers, and field observations may be utilized. A significant research project will be required.
Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area not otherwise part of the discipline's course offerings. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
Topics will be determined by the faculty member and will therefore vary.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
Selected topics of contemporary relevance in the field of Crime and Justice studies. Active discussions, mini-lectures, filed simulations, student presentations, role-playing, guest speakers, and field observations may be utilized. A significant research project will be required.
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Research
Research interests
- Hemispheric American Studies
- Comparative Race & Ethnicity
- Neoliberalism
- Labor
- Transnational Social Movements
Select publications
See curriculum vitae for more publications
- Eric Larson (2023).
Grounding Global Justice: Race, Class, and Grassroots Globalism in the U.S. and Mexico. Publisher: University of California Press - Larson, Eric D. (2018).
Anti-Colonial Anti-Intervention: Puerto Rican Independentismo and the U.S. "Anti-Intervention" Left in Reagan-Era Boston
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 93-118. - Eric D. Larson (2018).
Tradition and Transition: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Containment of Indigenous Insurgency in Southern Mexico in the 1990s
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 22-46. - Eric D. Larson (2015).
Black Lives Matter and Bridge-Building: Labor Education for a "New Jim Crow" Era
Labor Studies Journal, 36-66. - Eric Larson (editor) (2013).
Jobs with Justice: 25 Years, 25 Voices. Publisher: PM Press
Eric Larson is a comparative scholar of race, labor, and social movements in the neoliberal Americas. He is author of Grounding Global Justice: Race, Class, and Grassroots Globalism in the U.S. and Mexico (University of California Press, 2023). The book reconsiders the explosive emergence of “anti-globalization” movements at the turn of the twenty-first century in the U.S. and Mexico. What does that moment mean for today, when Trumpism has once again made globalization a key topic in public life? By situating social movements amidst the twin forces of racialized criminalization and state-sponsored multiculturalism, the book details the way poor people helped challenge official understandings of globalization and national belonging.
Larson’s research has appeared in journals including Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, and he published an article on labor and #BlackLivesMatter in the Labor Studies Journal. He also compiled and edited Jobs with Justice: 25 Years, 25 Voices (PM Press, 2013), to which he contributed a prologue. His work is informed by local justice struggles and popular education, and he works directly with Break the Cycle Cooperative Hub. The organization published an important report on worker-owned cooperatives for community members returning from prison in 2022. At the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Larson teaches courses on borders, criminalization, racism, social movements, and social theory. He also teaches in prison and leads a Study Abroad course in Oaxaca, Mexico, where students work with local partners to compare forms of racialization and systems of restorative and transformative justice. He received his PhD in American Studies from Brown University in 2011. You can find more of his writing at Academia.edu.