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Kevin G. Karpiak, PhD

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Dr. Kevin Karpiak is a cultural anthropologist and criminologist whose work focuses on policing. He teaches at Eastern Michigan University.


Biography

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Kevin Karpiak is a Professor at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan[1]. He is Director of the Southeastern Michigan Criminal Justice Policy Research Project (SMART)[2], co-editor of the series Police/Worlds: Studies in security, crime and governance for Cornell University Press[3] and Editor of group academic blog Anthropoliteia.net[4]. He received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (2009), for which he conducted a multi-sited ethnography of French community policing reform. Since 2016 he has been conducting research on police oversight commissions, including work funded by the National Science Foundation[5] and police de-escalation techniques, funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance[6]. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles & chapters[7][8] as well as edited a special issue of the journal Theoretical Criminology[9] and the volume The Anthropology of Police with Routledge press[10].  

Notable Accomplishments

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  • On Sunday, October 5, 2014 his chapter "Adjusting La Police[11]" was used as a foundational citation for the Dictionary.com Word of the Day, which was "tutoyer"[12].

Wiki-Inclusive Courses Taught

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Publications

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Karpiak, Kevin G., and William Garriott. "Introduction: disciplines, fields, and problems." In The Anthropology of Police, pp. 13-32. Routledge, 2018.[13]

Karpiak, Kevin. "No longer merely “good to think”: The new anthropology of police as a mode of critical thought." Theoretical Criminology 20, no. 4 (2016): 419-429.[14]

Karpiak, Kevin G. "The Anthropology of Police." InThe SAGE Handbook of Global Policing, pp. 103-121. SAGE, 2016.[15]

Karpiak, Kevin G. "Terreur, Terroir, Terrace: Vectors of Police and Public in France after Charlie Hebdo and La Bataclan." Anthropology Now 8, no. 2 (2016): 69-80.[16]

Mutsaers, Paul, Jennie Simpson, and Kevin Karpiak. "The anthropology of police as public anthropology." American Anthropologist 117, no. 4 (2015): 786-789.[17]

Karpiak, Kevin G. "Adjusting la police: The use of distance in the calibration of legitimate violence among the Police Nationale." In Policing and Contemporary Governance, pp. 79-95. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2013.[11]

Karpiak, Kevin G. "Of heroes and polemics:“The policeman” in urban ethnography." PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 33, no. s1 (2010): 7-31.[18]

References

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  1. ↑ "Eastern Michigan University: Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology". www.emich.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  2. ↑ "Southeast Michigan Criminal Justice Policy Research Project". www.emich.edu. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  3. ↑ "Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance". Sage House News: The Cornell University Press Blog. 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  4. ↑ "Editorial Board". Anthropoliteia. 2014-03-11. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  5. ↑ "Award Details - NSF Award Search". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  6. ↑ "Log in | Bureau of Justice Assistance". bja.ojp.gov. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  7. ↑ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  8. ↑ "Kevin Karpiak". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  9. ↑ Karpiak, Kevin (2016-11). "No longer merely "good to think": The new anthropology of police as a mode of critical thought". Theoretical Criminology. 20 (4): 419–429. doi:10.1177/1362480616659807. ISSN 1362-4806. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ↑ Karpiak, Kevin; Garriott, William Campbell (2021). Anthropology of Police. Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-0-367-48240-4.
  11. 1 2 Policing and contemporary governance : the anthropology of police in practice. Garriott, William Campbell, 1977- (First edition ed.). New York. ISBN 1137309679. OCLC 895722572. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ↑ "tutoyer - Word of the Day | Dictionary.com". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  13. ↑ The anthropology of police. Karpiak, Kevin,, Garriott, William Campbell, 1977-. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 2018. ISBN 9781138919655. OCLC 1019838821.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ↑ Karpiak, Kevin (2016-11). "No longer merely "good to think": The new anthropology of police as a mode of critical thought". Theoretical Criminology. 20 (4): 419–429. doi:10.1177/1362480616659807. ISSN 1362-4806. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ↑ SAGE Handbook of Global Policing. Bradford, Ben. SAGE Publications. 2016. ISBN 147395911X. OCLC 954195337.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  16. ↑ Karpiak, Kevin G. (2016-05-03). "Terreur, Terroir, Terrace: Vectors of Police and Public in France after Charlie Hebdo and La Bataclan". Anthropology Now. 8 (2): 69–80. doi:10.1080/19428200.2016.1202610. ISSN 1942-8200.
  17. ↑ Mutsaers, Paul; Simpson, Jennie; Karpiak, Kevin (2015-11-19). "The Anthropology of Police as Public Anthropology". American Anthropologist. 117 (4): 786–789. doi:10.1111/aman.12372. ISSN 0002-7294.
  18. ↑ Karpiak, Kevin G. (2010-05). "Of Heroes and Polemics: "The Policeman" in Urban Ethnography". PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 33: 7–31. doi:10.1111/j.1555-2934.2010.01063.x. ISSN 1081-6976. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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