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.

• Geoff Ward, Nick Petersen, Aaron Kupchik, and James Pratt (2019). “Historic Lynching and Corporal Punishment in Contemporary Southern Schools.” Social Problems. Online first
  
  
• David Cunningham, Geoff Ward, and Peter Owens(2019). “Configuring Political Repression: Anti-Civil Rights Enforcement in Mississippi.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 24(3).
  
  
• Pérez, Raul and Geoff 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 Geoff Ward. 2015. “Motivational and Organizational Contingencies of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan”
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• Ward, Geoff and David Cunningham, eds. 2015. “Legacies of Racial Conflict & Violence.” Race & Justice (Special Issue).
  
  
• Petersen, Nick and Geoff Ward, 2015. “The Transmission of Historical Racial Violence: Lynching, Civil Rights-Era Terror, & Contemporary Interracial Homicide.” Race & Justice.
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• Ward, Geoff, 2015. “The Slow Violence of State Organized Race Crime.” Theoretical Criminology.
  
  
• Ward, Geoff, 2012. The Black Child Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice. University of Chicago Press.

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