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Tryon Woods, PhD
Professor
Crime & Justice Studies
Contact
508-999-8406
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Liberal Arts 392C
Education
| 2007 | University of California, Irvine | PhD |
| 2000 | Arizona State University | MS |
| 1995 | Wesleyan University | BA |
Teaching
- Crime & Justice Studies
- Black Studies
- Women & Gender Studies
- Law
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
An investigation of how the political, social, and economic interests that converge on the site of the prison determine criminal justice policy. This course is a study in the cultural and political economic dimensions of structural violence, with the prison system as the illustrative case study.
Selected topics in Black Studies. May be repeated with change of content/topic.
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An examination of cinema as a feature of the historical, structural, and performative dimensions of policing.
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A study of sociological theorists. Designed to teach the theoretical foundations necessary for the critical study of crime and justice, the course will cover a range of theories focusing on those that assist in a critique of problems of power in matters of crime and justice.
Research
Research interests
- Black Studies
Select publications
- Tryon P. Woods (2022).
Pandemic Police Power, Public Health, and the Abolition Question - Tryon P. Woods (2019).
Blackhood Against the Police Power: Punishment and Disavowal in the "Post-Racial" Era
Michigan State University Press - Tryon P. Woods (2019).
Marronage, Here and There: Liberia, Enslavement's Conversion, and the Settlers-Not
International Labor and Working Class History, no. 96, 1-22. - Tryon P. Woods (2018).
The Implicit Bias of Implicit Bias Theory
Drexel Law Review, 10, 631-672.
Dr. Woods teaches Black Studies and critical approaches to de-disciplining knowledge. He has taught at Providence College, Brown University, Rhode Island College, Sonoma State University, and Long Beach State University. He has also taught at San Quentin State Prison in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked with community organizations in Oakland, Seattle, and New York City on police accountability, supportive housing for drug users, youth peer education, and HIV/AIDS prevention.
In addition to publishing articles across the humanities, social sciences, and law, Dr. Woods' books include On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness (Africa World Press 2015), Conceptual Aphasia in Black: Displacing Racial Formation Theory (Lexington 2016), Blackhood Against the Police Power: Punishment and Disavowal in the “Post-Racial” Era (Michigan State University Press 2019), Ex Aqua in the Mediterranean: Excavating Black Power in the Migrant Question (Manchester University Press forthcoming), and Blackhood At-Large: The Cinema of Social Death (forthcoming).