Stuart Schrader

Stuart Schrader is lecturer and assistant research scientist in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of a forthcoming book, currently titled Policing Revolution: Cold War Counterinsurgency at Home and Abroad, to be published by the University of California Press. This book demonstrates the deep links between Cold War counterinsurgency efforts by US security officials to upgrade police in the third world and domestic police reforms that manifested as the "war on crime." Stuart's writing has recently appeared in the Baffler, the Journal of Urban History, NACLA Report on the Americas, and elsewhere. Stuart was a 2011 Dissertation Proposal Development fellow.