Research 

My project-related research on histories of racial violence, their legacies, and reckoning.

"Juvenile convicts at work in the fields" (1903). Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.

• Pérez, R. and G. Ward (2019). "From Insult to Estrangement and Injury: The Violence of Racist Police Jokes." American Behavioral Scientist, DOI: 0002764219842617.  
  
  
• Ward, Geoff. 2018. "Living Histories of White Supremacist Policing: Towards Transformative Justice." Du Bois Review
  
  
• Ward, Geoff. 2016. "Microclimates of Racial Meaning: Historical Racial Violence and Environmental Impacts," Wisconsin Law Review.
  
  
• Owens, P., D. Cunningham, and G. Ward. 2015. “Motivational and Organizational Contingencies of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan”
  ​Social Problems.
  
  
• Ward, G. and D. Cunningham, eds. 2015. “Legacies of Racial Conflict & Violence.” Race & Justice (Special Issue).
  
  
• Petersen, N. and G. Ward, 2015. “The Transmission of Historical Racial Violence: Lynching, Civil Rights-Era Terror, & Contemporary Interracial Homicide.” Race & Justice.
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• Ward, G., 2015. “The Slow Violence of State Organized Race Crime.” Theoretical Criminology.
  
  
• Ward, G., 2012. The Black Child Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice. University of Chicago Press.

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