John Major Eason is an Assistant Professor in the School Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. Before serving as the 2008-2010 Provost’s Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago in 2008. Professor Eason's interests include crime, race, rural sociology, sociology of punishment, and urban sociology. From2007-2008 he was the Dissertation Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago.
Professor Eason, a native of Evanston, Illinois received a B.A. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and a M.P.P. from the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago in 2002. Before entering graduate school, he worked as a church-based community organizer focusing on housing and criminal justice issues. He also served as a political organizer most notably for then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama.
Contact:
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Arizona State University
411 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85004-0685
jmeason@asu.edu