Boyles, Andrea S.

Andrea S. Boyles is author of the books You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America (UC Press, 2019) and Race, Place, and Suburban Policing: Too Close for Comfort (UC Press, 2015). She is a sociologist and critical criminologist and joins Tulane University as a visiting associate professor of sociology and Africana studies. As a feminist, race scholar and ethnographer, Boyles’ work accounts for social inequality and (in)justice regarding, but not limited to the following: race; the intersection of race, gender and class; Black citizen-police conflict; crime; racial-spatial politics, segregation and containment; poverty; social ties; and resistance. Boyles has served in various capacities in academia and worked with corporations and organizations such as American Airlines, Amnesty International and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement on matters pertaining to race and discrimination. Boyles has also served as a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) and presently, as secretary and member of Council for Sociologists for Women in Society. She has also taught within the Missouri prison system and presented research on the effects of incarcerated parents on children. Boyles holds a BA in English and MA in sociology from Lincoln University of Missouri, and a PhD in Sociology from Kansas State University with concentrations in gender and criminology.