David J. Knight
David J. Knight is an Assistant Professor of Sociology (beginning July 2024) and a Faculty Fellow in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. He is also a faculty affiliate at Incite.
Broadly speaking, David is interested in how social and political change unfolds in contexts of historical exclusion and marginalization. His current scholarly and publicly engaged research focuses on how impacted communities – notably Black communities and communities that have experienced incarceration – negotiate, resist, and imagine a world beyond mass criminalization and imprisonment. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Originally from the New Orleans area, David received his bachelor’s degree in history from Dartmouth College and a doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago.