John Major Eason is a 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. His 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. In 2006, he received the Robert E. Park Lectureship in the University of Chicago's Department of Sociology teaching on the intersection of race, punishment, and inequality.
John, 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, John worked as a church-based community organizer focusing on housing and criminal justice issues. He also served as a political organizer most notably for former Illinois State Senator Barack Obama.
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