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Theresa Rocha Beardall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. She completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at Cornell University in 2019, and has a diverse educational background including a J.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.A. degrees in Sociology and American Indian Studies from Cornell and UCLA, respectively, and a B.A. in Latinx Studies and American Indian Studies from San Francisco State University. Dr. Beardall’s research intersects race, law, inequality, and family policing, focusing on how legal institutions and actors marginalize certain racial groups while examining systemic inequalities. Her work has been published in notable academic venues such as Criminology, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and the Columbia Journal of Race and Law. Currently, she is working on a book that examines the political economy of policing in race-class marginalized communities and is conducting a three-year study funded by the William T. Grant Foundation that explores the use of tribal sovereignty to protect Native youth and families within the child welfare system.
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