Carla Shedd
Dr. Carla Shedd is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University whose research and teaching focus on: race and ethnicity; criminalization and criminal justice; education; law; social inequality; and urban policy.
Dr. Carla Shedd is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University whose research and teaching focus on: race and ethnicity; criminalization and criminal justice; education; law; social inequality; and urban policy. Shedd received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University, and has previously served on the faculty at Columbia University and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research agenda assesses the extent to which both formative and reformative social institutions (e.g., schools and juvenile justice courts) shape the perceptions, experiences, and outcomes of urban adolescents. Shedd’s multiple award-winning first book, Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice, examines how racial identity, neighborhood, and school environments simultaneously shape young people’s understanding of themselves and their place in society—particularly in the domains of opportunity, inequality, safety, and justice. Shedd’s current book project is a multi-method exploration of the “carceral continuum” theory that draws on one-of-a-kind empirical data and policy analysis to interrogate the deftly intertwined contexts of schools, neighborhoods, and courts in this contemporary moment of youth-focused policy shifts within and beyond New York City.