Travis Linnemann
Professor
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
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- ProfessorDepartment of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
- Kansas State University, Sociology, 919 Mid-Campus Drive, Manhattan, KS, 66506, United States
ABOUt
Travis is a criminologist whose research focuses on the ways that crime, violence and disorder are imagined and represented.
He is author, co-author and editor of several books including Meth Wars (NYUP,2016) and Ghost Criminology (NYUP, 2022). His second monograph The Horror of Police (UMNP, 2022) was honored with the Jock Young, Criminological Imagination award by the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice. His most recent book, Under the Gun co-authored with Michelle Brown (University of Tennessee) will be published by New York University Press, April 2026.
Travis serves on the editorial boards of Crime, Media, Culture, Theoretical Criminology, Critical Criminology, Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Australia) and Qualitative Criminology and Criminal Justice and is the series co-editor of Emerald's Studies in Culture, Criminal Justice and the Arts. From 2020-2025 he was editor of Crime, Media, Culture.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Associate ProfessorKansas State University, Sociology, 919 Mid-Campus Drive, Manhattan, 66506, United States8 Jan 2019
DEGREES
- PhD, SociologyKansas State University, SASW, Manhattan, KS, United States1 Aug 2007 - 1 Aug 2011