Professor Sarah Tosh
Sarah Tosh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Camden, where she teaches courses on drugs and society, the sociology of deviance, inequality in criminal justice, and criminal justice research methods, as well as an honors seminar on immigration, deportation, and justice. Her research focuses on the punitive intersections between drug, crime, and immigration policy in the United States, with a focus on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Her (tentatively-titled) book, From Criminalization to Deportation: Aggravated Felonies, Inequality, and Resistance at the Crimmigration Nexus is forthcoming from New York University Press. Drawing on archival research, interviews with lawyers, and ethnographic observation of NYC’s detained immigration court, From Criminalization to Deportation explores the historical development and modern day impacts of the aggravated felony—an oft-overlooked legal category which provides the basis for the removal of thousands of immigrants each year. Dr. Tosh is the co-PI of a two-year National Science Foundation-funded study of “The Criminal Deportation Pipeline in New York City” with Dr. David Brotherton, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. Her work has appeared in academic journals including Critical Criminology, International Journal of Drug Policy, and Journal of Migration and Human Security. She received her PhD in Sociology in 2019 from the Graduate Center, CUNY.