Zhandarka Kurti, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Zhandarka Kurti is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at 黑料网. Dr. Kurti received her PhD degree in Sociology from the . Her research explores race, class, gender and criminalization, probation and mass supervision and contemporary politics of criminal justice reforms.
Her research and teaching are informed by an interdisciplinary approach that brings together critical scholarship on policing, prisons and social control to place criminal justice system transformations within the wider socio-historical, economic and political forces that shape American life.
Before coming to 黑料网, Dr. Kurti was an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Criminology and Criminal Justice at the (2019-2021). She was also a postdoctoral fellow at where she taught sociology courses to incarcerated students at Wallkill Correctional Facility.
Education
2018 Ph.D., Sociology, Binghamton University (SUNY)
2008 M.A., World-Historical Sociology, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Research Interests
Carceral Studies; Law and Society; Race, Class, Gender, Crime and Justice; Mass Supervision, Qualitative Research Methods, Youth Justice
Professional/Community Affiliations
2016-Present American Sociological Association
2014-Present American Society of Criminology
2015-Present Eastern Sociological Society
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
CJC 312 – Popular Culture and the Criminal Justice System
CJC 345 – Social Justice and Crime
CJC 370 – Women in the Criminal Justice System
CJC 372 – Race, Ethnicity, and Criminal Justice
CJC 375 – Punishment and Society
Graduate
CJC 410 – Race, Ethnicity, and Crime
CJC 410 – Punishment and Society
Publications/Research Listings
Shanahan, Jarrod, and Zhandarka Kurti. 2025. . Haymarket Books.
Kurti, Zhandarka. 2024. ‘Do no harm’: Mass Supervision and the Ruse of Carceral Humanism. Community Development Journal (Special issue: Community Development, the Carceral State and the Necessary Challenge of Penal Abolitionism) 59(4), October 2024, 643–662.
Kurti, Zhandarka and Zeynep Gönen. 2024. Carceral Power in World Historical Context: Bridging the Methodological and Theoretical Contributions of World Systems Analysis and Radical Criminology. Journal of World Systems Research 30(1) 421-450.
Kurti, Zhandarka and Michelle Brown. 2023. Carceral Reckoning and Twenty-First Century Abolition Movements: Generational Struggles in the Fight Against Prisons. Punishment and Society 25(5) 1353-1378.
Kurti, Zhandarka and Jarrod Shanahan. 2021. Carceral Non-Profits and the Limits of Prison Reform. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies (Special Issue: Carceral Geographies and Policing) 20(6) pp. 597-617
Kurti, Zhandarka. 2021. “Police Power After Black Lives Matter” Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order Special Issue: Police Power and the Fabrication of Social Order: The Critique of Police in the Twenty-First Century.
Kurti, Zhandarka. 2021. “Starting a Dialogue: From Radical Criminology to Critical Resistance: An Interview with Tony Platt," (Capitalist World Economy in Crisis: Policing, Pacification and Legitimacy) August 2021.
Kurti, Zhandarka and Jarrod Shanahan. 2018. “Rebranding Mass Incarceration: The Lippman Commission and ‘Carceral Devolution’ in New York City” Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order 45(2/3) pp. 23-50.
Kurti, Zhandarka and Odilka Santiago. 2019. “Central Park Five Syllabus: A Supplementary Reading List.” with Odilka Santiago Abolition Journal
Kurti, Zhandarka. 2018. “Probation and Second Chances in the Era of the Jobless Future” Brooklyn Rail.