Stuart Schrader

Stuart is Associate Research Professor in the Center for Africana Studies and the Associate Director of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship. He teaches courses on police and prisons, Black social movements, and social theory. He received his PhD in American Studies from New York University in 2015.

Stuart is the author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (University of California Press, 2019). His book examines the relationship between US projections of power overseas and the rise of the carceral state at home. Badges Without Borders shows that during the Cold War the United States used policing experts to modernize police in the developing world, for the purpose of preventing revolution. These experts, in turn, shaped the domestic response to Black insurgency during the 1960s, creating expansive new bureaucracies of criminal justice and aggressive policing techniques and technologies. This book demonstrates that overseas state-building in the domain of security has profound and negative effects on democracy at home.