Author.
Professor.
Sociologist.
Carla Shedd, Ph.D. is a sociologist and award-winning author whose research assesses how social institutions impact the perceptions, experiences, and outcomes of urban adolescents.
Dr. Shedd is currently accepting bookings for events, lectures, and speaking engagements.
“Unequal City is a revelatory study that shows and tells how inner city young people struggle to acquire a decent education.”
—Elijah Anderson, William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Dr. Shedd is able to speak to the following topics in her lectures: racial/ethnic inclusion and diversity; educational justice; the “carceral continuum” (e.g., criminalization, policing, school disciplinary practices, restorative justice and/or police-free schools); youth perceptions of opportunity and inequality, criminal and juvenile punishment/justice, juvenile court processes, urban policy intersections, and much more.
About
As of July 2022, Dr. Carla Shedd is Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University whose research and teaching focus on: education; criminalization and criminal justice; race and ethnicity; law; social inequality; and urban policy. Shedd’s award-winning first book, Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice, examines the symbiosis between public school systems and the criminal justice system, specifically highlighting the racially stratified social and physical terrain youth traverse between home and school in Chicago. Shedd’s second book project, When Protection and Punishment Collide: America’s Juvenile Court System and the Carceral Continuum, draws on her one-of-a-kind empirical data to interrogate the deftly intertwined contexts of NYC schools, neighborhoods, and juvenile justice courts, in this dynamic moment of NYC public policy shifts (e.g., school segregation, “Raise the Age,” and “Close Rikers.”). Read more >>