Bio

Dr. Tyler Wall is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice. He received his Ph.D. in Justice Studies, an interdisciplinary degree from Arizona State University. He has published his work in academic journals such as Theoretical Criminology, Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, & World Order, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, and Surveillance & Society, among others.

His main research and theoretical interests focus on the cultural, political, and spatial dynamics of the relations between the state, violence, social control, power, and everyday life, especially in the context of the “war on terror.” His writing and research on these issues is a critical engagement with the cultural logics and representations of state crime and violence, the social construction of hierarchies of human value and worth, the intensification of surveillance, militarization, and securitization in everyday life, and the politics of space, place, and territory. He approaches these diverse yet integrated issues through qualitative research methods, theoretical engagement, and cultural critique attuned to race, class, and gender.

His most recent projects are about the cultural sensibilities surrounding state crimes and war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the transfer of military surveillance drones to domestic police departments in the U.S., and the role of visual politics and the “crime image” in shaping forms of life in late modern society. Dr. Wall welcomes the opportunity to work with graduate students on their own research endeavors.