Shannon Malone Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Faculty Researcher at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research draws from black feminism and critical criminology to examine the relationship between marginality and policing—in particular how black women and girls experience, understand, and resist police surveillance and violence. She is especially interested in institutional and communal knowledge production processes used to conceptualize, track, and address police violence and other types of violence on the margins.

Shannon is from Jackson, MS where she earned her B.A. from Tougaloo College. She received her M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin where she also completed doctoral portfolios in Applied Statistical Modeling and Women’s and Gender Studies.

In addition to research, Shannon engages in photography, creative writing, southern food and music, and beloved black, queer, and feminist communities.