Ziming Xuan, Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health

• Slides from the symposium
• Recommended resources:
  • Xuan Z, Hemenway D. State Gun Law Environment and Youth Gun Carrying in the United States. JAMA Pediatr. 2015 Nov; 169(11):1024-31. PMID: 26390045; DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.2116

  • Siegel M, Xuan Z, Ross CS, Galea S, Kalesan B, Fleegler E, Goss KA. Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States. Am J Public Health. 2017 Dec; 107(12):1923-1929.View Related Profiles. PMID: 29048964; DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304057

Jeffrey Swanson, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine

• Swanson, J. (2017). 19.4 Should juvenile crime records disqualify mentally ill adults from buying firearms, and for how long? Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 56(10), S332-S332. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2017.07.690
• Felthous, A., & Swanson, J. (2017). Prohibition of persons with mental illness from gun ownership under Tyler. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 45(4), 478-484.

Jacqueline Campbell, Professor, John Hopkins School of Nursing

• Kwako, L. E., Glass, N. Campbell, J. C., Melvin, K., Barr, & Gill, J. M. 2011. Traumatic Brain Injury in Intimate Partner Violence: A critical review of outcomes and mechanisms. Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 12(3):115-26.

• Campbell, J.C., Webster, D. W., & Glass, N. E. 2009. The Danger Assessment: Validation of a lethality risk assessment instrument for intimate partner femicide. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 24, 653-674.

John Klofas, Professor and Director Emeritus of The Center for Public Safety Initiatives, Rochester Institute of Technology

• Slides, "The extent and nature of gun violence in Rochester"
• Altheimer, I., Schaible, L. M., Klofas, J., & Comeau, M. (2016). Victim characteristics, situational factors, and the lethality of urban gun violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi:10.1177/0886260516652264
• Klofas, J., Hipple, N. K., & McGarrell, E. F. (2010). The new criminal justice: American communities and the changing world of crime control. New York: Routledge

Jed Metzger, Associate Professor in Social Work, Nazareth College

• Slides, "Using community capacity development approaches to change gun use mindsets"
• Publications
  • Metzger, J. (2012). Teaching civic engagement: Evaluating an integrative service-learning program. Gateways : International Journal of Community Research & Engagement, 5(1) link

Catherine Cerulli,  Professor of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center

• Brown J, Burnette ML, Cerulli C. Correlations Between Sexual Abuse Histories, Perceived Danger, and PTSD Among Intimate Partner Violence Victims. Journal of interpersonal violence. 2015 Sep 0; 30(15):2709-25. Epub 2014 Oct 16.

• Gardella JH, Nichols-Hadeed CA, Mastrocinque JM, Stone JT, Coates CA, Sly CJ, Cerulli C. Beyond Clery Act statistics: a closer look at college victimization based on self-report data. Journal of interpersonal violence. 2015 Feb 0; 30(4):640-58. Epub 2014 Jun 12.

Akinyele Umoja, Professor of African-American Studies, Georgia State University

• Umoja, A. (2018). The people must decide: Chokwe lumumba, new black power, and the potential for participatory democracy in mississippi. The Black Scholar, 48(2), 7-19. doi:10.1080/00064246.2018.1435126
• Umoja, A. (2013). From one generation to the next: Armed self-defense, revolutionary nationalism, and the southern black freedom struggle. Souls - A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 15(3), 218-240. doi:10.1080/10999949.2013.838857
• Umoja, A. O. (2013). We will shoot back: Armed resistance in the mississippi freedom movement. New York: New York University Press.

Alexandra Filindra, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago

• Filindra, A., & Kaplan, N. (2017). Testing theories of gun policy preferences among blacks, latinos, and whites in america. Social Science Quarterly, 98(2), 413-428. doi:10.1111/ssqu.12418
• Filindra, A. and N. Kaplan (2016) Racial resentment and white gun policy preferences in contemporary America. Political Behavior, 38(2), 255-275.

Caroline Light, Director of Undergraduate Studies & Senior Lecturer of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University

• Light, C. E. (2017). Stand your ground: A history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Recommended Resources
  • http://www.publicbooks.org/gun-studies-syllabus/  

Chad Kautzer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Lehigh University

• Kautzer, C. (2015). Good guys with guns: From popular sovereignty to self-defensive subjectivity. Law and Critique, 26(2), 173-187. doi:10.1007/s10978-015-9156-x
• Kautzer, C., & Mendieta, E. (2009). Pragmatism, nation, and race: Community in the age of empire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Angela Stroud, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Justice, Northland College

• Slides, "Rules of Engagement: Race and the Social Construction of Innocence"
• Stroud, A. (2015). Good guys with guns: The appeal and consequences of concealed carry. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
• Lowe, M. R., Stroud, A., & Nguyen, A. (2017). Who looks suspicious? Racialized surveillance in a predominantly white neighborhood. Social Currents, 4(1), 34-50. doi:10.1177/2329496516651638

Peter Benson, Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis

• Benson, P. (2016). The crime of innocence and the depths of sorriness: Notes on apologies and reparations in the united states. Cultural Dynamics, 28(2), 121-141. doi:10.1177/0921374016653231
• Benson, P. (2014). Corporate paternalism and the problem of harmful products. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 37(2), 218-230. doi:10.1111/plar.12071

Jennifer Carlson, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Government & Public Policy at the University of Arizona

• Ray, R., Carlson, J., & Andrews, A. (2018). The social life of gender. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc.
• Carlson, J. (2017). The hidden arm of the law: Examining administrative justice in gun carry licensing. Law & Society Review, 51(2), 346-378. doi:10.1111/lasr.12263
• Carlson, J. (2015). Citizen-protectors: The everyday politics of guns in an age of decline. New York;Oxford;: Oxford University Press.

Niklas Hultin, Assistant Professor Program, George Mason University

• Slides from the symposium
• Recommended resources:
  • Hultin, N.(2017). Bulletproofing: Small Arms, International Law, and Spiritual Security in The Gambia. In Højbjerg, C. K., Knörr, J., & Murphy, B. (Eds.), Politics and policies in upper guinea coast societies: Change and continuity. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hultin, N. (2015). Leaky humanitarianism: The anthropology of small arms control in the gambia. American Ethnologist, 42(1), 68-80. doi: 10.1111/amet.1211

Charles E. Cobb Jr., journalist, professor, and former activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Transcript from the symposium, "Gun possession and gun control: A muddled debate"
• Cobb, C. E., Jr. (2014). This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed: How guns made the civil rights movement possible. New York, NY: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
• Cobb, C. E., Jr. (2008). On the road to freedom: A guided tour of the civil rights trail (1st ed.). Chapel Hill, N.C: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
• Minter, W., Hovey, G., & Cobb, C. E., Jr. (2008). No easy victories: African liberation and American activists over a half century, 1950-2000. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.