Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum vitae of Shea Streeter, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan.

Academic appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan — 2021–present
President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan — 2019–2021

Education

Stanford University — Ph.D. in Political Science, 2019; M.A. in Political Science, 2018
University of Notre Dame — B.A. in Anthropology, with honors, 2011

Other appointments

  • Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan
  • Faculty Associate, Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD), University of Michigan
  • Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School — 2022

Publications & working papers

  • Police Abuse or Just Deserts? Deservingness Perceptions and State Violence (with Mackenzie Israel-Trummel). Public Opinion Quarterly 86, no. S1 (June 2022): 499–522. doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfac017
  • Bringing Abolition In: Addressing Carceral Logics in Social Science Research (with Jordie Davies and Jenn Jackson). Social Science Quarterly (August 2021). doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13022
  • Lethal Force in Black and White: Assessing Racial Disparities in the Circumstances of Police Killings. The Journal of Politics 81, no. 3 (July 2019): 1124–1132. doi.org/10.1086/703541
  • Mobilization Readiness and the Geography of Protest in the 2020 Uprising (with Arica Schuett). Presented at the 2026 American Political Science Association Conference.

Teaching

Instructor

  • African Americans and the Politics of Race — WN 2026
  • Abolition in Theory and Practice — FA 2024, WN 2026
  • Politics of Police and Prisons in the U.S. — FA 2023, WN 2024, WN 2025, FA 2025
  • Race and Crime Practicum (faculty sponsor Jennifer Eberhardt), Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University — 2018
  • Stanford Prison Education Project, San Francisco County Jail #5 — 2017

Presentations & invited talks

  • American Political Science Association Annual Conference — 2026
  • University of San Diego Center for American Politics — 2025
  • Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference — 2025
  • Duke University Racial and Ethnic Politics Speaker Series — 2020
  • American Political Science Association Annual Conference — 2018, 2019
  • Conflict Consortium Virtual Workshop — 2018
  • Stanford SIEPR Forum on Crime, Policing, and Incarceration — 2017
  • Stanford Law School Colloquium on Incarceration and Crime — 2017
  • Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference — 2017

Service & mentoring

  • Founder and Director, Violence and Policing Lab, University of Michigan
  • UROP Faculty Mentor, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan — 2019–2022
  • EDGE Mentor to PhD Students, Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford University — 2015–2019