Monica Bell
Associate Professor, Law and Sociology, Yale University
Yale University
Monica Bell is associate professor of law and sociology at Yale Law School. Her research at the intersection of law and sociology focuses on processes of criminalization, spatial inequality, and state-sanctioned racial violence in America. As a legal scholar, she also writes about strategies for undoing and healing the effects of those processes. Her scholarship has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Yale Law Journal, NYU Law Review, and other academic outlets. She has also written for public audiences in outlets such as the Washington Post, Politico, The Appeal, Just Security, Sojourners, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Areas of Expertise
- Crime and Punishment
- Law
- Race and Ethnicity
- Social Inequality or Stratification
- Social Policy
- Social Theory
- Sociology
- Urban Studies
Methodology
- Archival Methods
- Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
- Ethnographic Methods
- Focus Groups
- Interviews
- Qualitative Methods
- Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)
- Legal Research/Analysis
- Affiliates
- Inaugural - Faculty