Matt Lassiter

Professor of History, Carceral State Project co-director, DCCR co-PI, director Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab. Matt Lassiter, the co-PI of Documenting Criminalization, Confinement, and Resistance is a scholar of the twentieth-century United States with a research and teaching focus on political history, urban/suburban studies, racial and social inequality, and the history of policing and the carceral state. His most recent book, The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs, was published in 2023 from Princeton University Press. He has led undergraduate teams in the creation of seven book-length digital exhibits, including the CSP-affiliated projects Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era (1957-1973) and Crackdown: Policing Detroit through the War on Crime, Drugs, and Youth (1974-1993).