Education
| 2003 PhD 1994 MA 1990 BA |
University of California, Los Angeles (Sociology) University of California, Los Angeles (Sociology) University of California, Los Angeles (Sociology) |
Bio
Robert Garot received his Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA in 2003. He is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His book, Who You Claim: Performing Gang Identity in School and on the Streets, published by NYU Press in 2010, has been reviewed in Teacher’s College Record and Contemporary Sociology, and it received Honorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. In 2007 and 2008, he conducted fieldwork in Tuscany on racialization practices and the experiences of immigrants with the law. He is a facilitator for the Alternatives to Violence Project in the Garden State Penitentiary, and has served as an advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Urban Institute.
JJC Affiliations
Professional Memberships
American Sociological Association
American Society of Criminology
Law and Society Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interation
Course Taught
Crimmigration (Graduate Course)
Deviance
Drugs and Society
Environmental Sociology
Ethnographic Methods
Food Justice
Gangs and Transnationalism
Introduction to Criminology
Introduction to Sociology
Juvenile Delinquency
Law and Society
Migration and Crime
Research Methods
Senior Seminar
Sociology of Everyday Life
Sociology of Law
Sociology of Mental Illness
Urban Sociology
Youth and Crime
Languages spoken/fluent in
Scholarly Work
Book
2010 Who You Claim: Performing Gang Identity in School and on the Streets. New York: New York University Press.
Reviews
2012 The Global Sociology Blog. http://globalsociology.tumblr.com/post/32098936549/book-review-who-you-claim. Accessed 8/30/15.
2011 Andrew V. Papachristos. Contemporary Sociology. September, 2011, pp. 589-591.
2010 Annette Hemmings. Teachers College Record. July 20, 2010 http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 16077.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2018 “‘The Long Line They Must Make in the Night’: Performative Realism in the Italian State’s Relations with Outsiders.” Administory. Journal for the History of Public Administration 3 (2018), 233–244 (DOI : 10.2478 / ADHI - 2018 - 0011).
2018 With Peter Collin and Timon de Groot. “Bureaucracy and Emotions. Perspectives across Disciplines.” Administory. Journal for the History of Public Administration 3 (2018), 5–19 (DOI : 10.2478 / ADHI - 2018 - 0002).
2015 “Gang Banging as Edgework.” Dialectical Anthropology March, 2015. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10624-015-9374-5?sa_campaign=email/event/articleAuthor/onlineFirst
2014 “The Psycho-Affective Echoes of Colonialism in Fieldwork Relations.” Forum Qualitative Social Research 15(1). http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1401125
2012 “Gang Banging as Edgework.” Kriminologisches Journal 44(3):167-181.
2010 “The Gang’s School: Challenges of Reintegrative Social Control.” Pp. 149-176 in Stacy Burns and Mark Peyrot (Eds.), Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 17. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.
Honors and Awards
Mellon Mid-Career Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center
Robert E. Park Book Award, Honorable Mention, Community and Urban Section, American Sociology Association.
Calandra Institute of Italian American Studies Semester Fellowship
Dwight Conquergood Award, Performance Studies International, Honorable Mention
LeRoy Neimann Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles.
