Jennifer Carlson

Jennifer Carlson is an American sociologist. In 2022, she won a MacArthur Fellowship.

Life Carlson graduated from Dartmouth College, and University of California at Berkeley. From 2013 to 2016, she taught at the University of Toronto; she also taught at the University of Arizona from 2026 - 2023. In 2023, she moved to Arizona State University as a professor of sociology, where she founded the BRIDGS Initiative: Bringing Research & Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society.

In 2024, she launched the Guns Unpacked podcast.

She was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Works

Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline (Oxford University Press 2015)

Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Public Law Enforcement and the Politics of Race (Princeton University Press, 2020)

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2023)