#  Vesla M. Weaver 

PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2007.

Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.

 

 

 



   ![Vesla M. Weaver](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/inequality/files/weaver18b.jpg?itok=adU4Hwen) 

 



 

 laptop\_windows [Homepage](https://veslaweaver.wordpress.com/) 

 

 



 

   
*Named a Johns Hopkins University Gilman Scholar, distinction that honors and celebrates select Johns Hopkins faculty who embody the highest standards of scholarship and research across the university, 2018.*

 *Winner of the Andrew Carnegie fellowship, awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for the advancement of research in the humanities and social sciences, 2016.*

 Weaver is at work on a new project that will map patterns of citizenship and governance across cities and neighborhoods called the *Faces of American Democracy* using an innovative technology that creates digital ‘wormholes’ called Portals.

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   ![Arresting Citizenship](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/weaverbk14.jpg?itok=yXOGL3vQ) 

 

esla Weaver's book with Amy Lerman, [Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo18008991.html), documents the effects of increasing punishment and surveillance in America on democratic inclusion, particularly for the black urban poor. University of Chicago Press (2014). *Winner of the American Political Science Association's Best Book in Urban Politics, 2015.*

 *Founding director, ISPS Center for the Study of Inequality, Yale University, 2015-2017.*

   ![Creating a New Racial Order](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/inequality/files/hochschildweaverburchbk.jpg?itok=NJd62wNy) 

 

Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver, and Traci R. Burch's (PhD '07) book, [Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America](http://www.amazon.com/Creating-New-Racial-Order-Multiracialism/dp/0691152993), has been published by Princeton University Press (2012). *Winner of the American Political Science Association’s Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Best Dissertation Award, 2008.*



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Government and Social Policy](/alumni-department/government-and-social-policy)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2007](/alumni-year/2007)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)