Profile
Jackie Wang is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (2018), a book on the racial, economic, political, legal, and technological dimensions of the U.S. carceral state. Her forthcoming book manuscript, tentatively titled Vectors of Control, examines how, during the postwar period, calls to reform the U.S. criminal legal system catalyzed experimentation in the realm of criminal procedure and led to the development of new techniques of control. Rather than focusing exclusively on the role of the state in pursuing the policy path now known as ‘mass incarceration,’ her recent research looks at the role of reformers, nonprofits, the Cold War university, and financiers in shaping the development of the carceral state.
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Degrees Held
B.A., Liberal Arts, New College of Florida
M.A., African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Ph.D., African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Recent Publications
Technoprecarious; co-authored with Anna Watkins Fisher, Silvia Lindtner, Ivan Chaar-Lopez, Cengiz Salman, McKenzie Wark, Kalindi Vora, Cass Adair, Lisa Nakamura, Cindy Lin, and Meryem Kamil; Goldsmiths Press, 2020.
Carceral Capitalism, Semiotext(e), 2018.
Poetry:
The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void, Nightboat Books, 2021.
The Twitter Hive Mind is Dreaming, Robocup Press, 2018.
Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb, Capricious, 2016.
Research Interests
Political Economy of the Carceral State
Critical Prison Studies
Racial Capitalism
Carceral Technologies
Surveillance Studies
Histories of the Black Radical Tradition
Capitalism Studies
Marxism
Sound Studies
Critical Race Theory
Poetry and Poetics
Psychoanalysis and Dream Studies
Awards And Honors
2020-2021. Fellow, Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, New School for Social Research.
2019-2020. Arleen Carlson and Edna Nelson Graduate Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
2019. Warren Center Dissertation Fellowship, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University.
2018-2019. Weatherhead Dissertation Fellowship, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
2018. Film Study Center Fellow, Harvard University.
2017. Pforzheimer Fellow, Black Feminism Project, Angela Davis Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
2012. First Place, The Keith Wilson/Joe Somoza Poetry Prize, judged by poet John Chavez.
2012. Ellis Wright Award.
2012. Kundiman Poetry Fellow, Kundiman Organization and Writing Retreat.
2011. Poet-in-Residence, Hermitage Artist Retreat.
2010. John Ringling Towers Fund, Literary Arts Award.
2008. Margaret L. Bates Award for Research in Gender Studies.
2006-2010. Bright Futures Florida Academic Scholars Award.