User:DoctorKarpiak

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

Biography
Kevin Karpiak is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. His ethnographic work explores the practical nature of ethics in French police administration from an anthropological perspective, a topic on which he has published widely. He has also served as Editor for several projects, including the group academic blog Anthropoliteia.net and, most recently, as co-editor of the series Police/Worlds: Studies in security, crime and governance for Cornell University Press.

Notable Accomplishments

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

Wiki-Inclusive Courses Taught

 * Wiki Ed/Eastern Michigan University/CRM447W Senior Seminar in Criminology (Fall 2018)
 * Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Eastern Michigan University/CRM620 Controversies in Policing (Fall 2018)
 * Wiki Ed/Eastern Michigan University/CRM447W Senior Seminar in Criminology (Winter 2019)
 * Wiki Ed/Eastern Michigan University/CRM447W Senior Seminar in Criminology (Summer)

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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