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Korey Tillman

Assistant Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice; Assistant Professor, Africana Studies

Korey Tillman’s research sits at the nexus of race, policing, and empire. His work examines how the imbricated histories of racial slavery and colonialism shape contemporary policing and push Blackness outside the category of Human. As an abolitionist, the goal of his work is to build upon the legacies of the Black feminist and radical traditions to move towards a world where African diasporic communities receive care, not criminalization. Korey’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the U.S. Fulbright Program, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship. His scholarship has been published in Social Problems, Sociology Compass, and Oxford University Handbook on Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice. Korey is co-editor of the recently published book, Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins with Lexington Books.

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2024 Kimberlé Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award, SSSP Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Division (for Carceral Liberalism article)
2022-2023 U.S. Fulbright Scholar to South Africa
2022-2023 American Sociological Association, Minority Fellowship Program
2022-2023 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship
2022 Honorable Mention, NASEM Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
2022 Honorable Mention, SSSP Michael Harrington Award (for Carceral Liberalism Article)
2021 Summer Doctoral Fellowship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2019-2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2017 Young People For Social Justice Fellowship

Tillman, Korey. 2022. “Carceral Liberalism: The Coloniality and Antiblackness of Coercive Benevolence.” Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac003

Ray, Ranita and Korey Tillman. 2018. “Envisioning a Feminist Urban Ethnography: Structure, Culture, and New Directions in Poverty Studies.” Sociology Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12652

Tillman, Korey, David R. Dickens, and Chico Herbison. eds. 2022. Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793643209/Neglected-Social-Theorists-of-Color-Deconstructing-the-Margins#:~:text=%22This%20book%20introduces%20ten%20notable,and%20many%20forms%20of%20activism.

Tillman, Korey. 2022. “Masks.” The Sociological Review Magazine. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.zfpo5483

Tillman, Korey. 2020. “Involuntary Servitude.” The Sociological Review Magazine. https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/fiction-involuntary-servitude/

Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated – Lifetime member
American Society of Criminologists
American Sociological Association
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
Association of Black Sociologists
The Society for the Study of Social Problems

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