{"id":3097,"date":"2024-09-06T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T21:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/?post_type=people&p=3097"},"modified":"2025-04-23T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:55:12","slug":"quinn-lester","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/directory\/quinn-lester\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinn Lester"},"featured_media":3456,"template":"","role":[73],"filter":[],"class_list":["post-3097","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","role-teaching-fellows"],"acf":[],"post_meta_fields":{"_edit_lock":["1745437974:759"],"_edit_last":["759"],"_thumbnail_id":["3456"],"ecpt_cv":[""],"_ecpt_cv":["field_61e0871dac8e2"],"cv_file":[""],"_cv_file":["field_61e088d12999e"],"ecpt_job_abstract":[""],"_ecpt_job_abstract":["field_61e0873bac8e3"],"abstract_file":[""],"_abstract_file":["field_61e088f52999f"],"ecpt_people_alpha":["Lester"],"ecpt_pronoun":["he\/him"],"ecpt_position":["Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow"],"ecpt_email":["qlester1@jh.edu"],"ecpt_website":["https:\/\/www.quinnlester.com\/"],"ecpt_bio":["

My name is Quinn Lester, and I am currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. I received a Ph.D. in Political Science in August 2022 from Johns Hopkins University, where I studied Political Theory and American Politics. Since <\/span>then<\/span> I have also taught courses in Political Theory, Racial and Ethnic Politics, and Criminal Justice at Washington & Lee University and George Washington University as Visiting Assistant Professor. My research specializes in <\/span>democratic theory and political violence. I am particularly interested in how historical and contemporary African American social movement critiques of policing reveal the constitutive role of political violence in defining what forms of American democracy matter and for whom, particularly under the framework of abolition democracy. My solo-authored, peer-reviewed writing has been published <\/span>at<\/span> <\/span>Constellations<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>Politics, Groups, and Identities, New Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, <\/span><\/span>and <\/span><\/span>Catalyst.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>"],"ecpt_teaching":["

My syllabi can be found at quinnlester.com<\/p>"],"ecpt_publications":["

2024 \u201cDemocratic Rioting: Tocqueville\u2019s Tyranny of the Majority to the Baltimore Uprising\u201d, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory

2022 \u201cDetecting the Asian Cop: Policing and the Incorporation of Asian Americans into American Empire\u201d, Politics, Groups, and Identities

\u201cBound to Preserve the White Self: Speculative Frenzy and the Patriarchal Right to Self- Defense in John Locke and Ida B. Wells\u201d, New Political Science

2021 \u201cWhose Democracy in Which State: Abolition Democracy from Angela Davis to W. E. B. Du Bois\u201d, Social Science Quarterly

\u201cBio-Orientalism and The Yellow Peril of Yellow Life\u201d, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience<\/p>"],"ecpt_extra_tab_title":["Expertise\/Research Interests"],"ecpt_extra_tab":["

Political Theory, American Politics, Democratic Theory, Police Studies, Carceral Studies<\/p>"],"ecpt_extra_tab_title2":["Professional Memberships "],"ecpt_extra_tab2":["