Samantha Simon

Samantha Simon, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Sociology and School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona

Samantha Simon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy and the School of Sociology at The University of Arizona, where she uses ethnographic methods to study gender, race, and violence. In her recent book, Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence, Simon examines how police academy training socializes cadets into a system of state violence.