Jennifer Dawn Carlson

Jennifer Dawn Carlson is associate professor of sociology as well as government and public policy at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline. Her writing has appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Books in order of publication:

Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline – 2015

The Social Life of Gender – 2016

Gun Studies Interdisciplinary Approaches to Politics, Policy, and Practice – 2018

Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race – 2020

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy – 2023

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things – 2023