Ph.D., Sociology, University of Delaware (2011)
M.A., Sociology, University of Delaware (2007)
B.A., Criminal Justice, Bloomsburg University (2005)
Jamie Longazel is an Associate Professor of Law & Society at John Jay College. He is also affiliated with the International Migration Studies (IMS) program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received a PhD in sociology from the University of Delaware after completing a Law and Social Science Doctoral Fellowship at the American Bar Foundation. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton.
As a working-class, first-generation scholar, Longazel has grown to appreciate the transformative power of teaching, learning, and research. He has authored several books and over a dozen academic articles, focusing on immigration politics, policing, and mass imprisonment (see below). He has taught in prisons, contributed to numerous social movement workshops, and founded Anthracite Unite, a collective that worked on racial and economic justice in Northeast Pennsylvania.
LWS 200: Introduction to Law & Society; LWS 225: Introduction to Research in Law & Society; LWS 385: Supervised Research Experience in Law & Society; POL 344: Immigration Law and Politics; LWS 425: Colloquium for Research in Law & Society; HON 301: The Idea of the Common Good Across Disciplines; SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology (Otisville Correctional Facility); IMS 702: Migration Policy (CUNY Graduate Center); IMS 711: Research Methods in International Migration (CUNY Graduate Center)
Books
Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin and Jamie Longazel (2025). The Pains of Mass Imprisonment, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.
Longazel, Jamie and Miranda Cady Hallett (eds.)(2021). Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Longazel, Jamie (2016). Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin and Jamie Longazel (2014). The Pains of Mass Imprisonment. New York: Routledge.
Selected Articles and Chapters
Longazel, Jamie (2021). "'Blue Lives Matter' and the Legacy of Blackface Minstrelsy" Race & Class 63(1): 91-106.
Longazel, Jamie (2021). "Angels of Denial: White Injury, Racial Transposition, and the U.S. Politics of Family Separation" Migration Letters 18(5): 563-571.
Longazel, Jamie (2018). "Releiving the Tension: Lay Immigration Lawyering and the Management of Legal Violence" Law & Society Review 52(4): 902-927.
Longazel, Jamie (2018). “Racing the Oven Bird: Criminalization, Rightlessness, and the Politics of Immigration.” Pp. 161-180 in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, & Law: Revisiting “The Oven Bird’s Song,” edited by Mary Nell Trautner. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Majka, Theo and Jamie Longazel (2017). “Becoming Welcoming: Organizational Collaboration and Immigrant Integration in Dayton, Ohio” Public Integrity 19(2): 151-163.
Longazel, Jamie, Jake Berman, and Benjamin Fleury-Steiner (2016). “The Pains of Immigrant Imprisonment” Sociology Compass 10: 989-998.
Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin, Paul Kaplan, and Jamie Longazel (2015). “Racist Localisms and the Enduring Cultural Life of America’s Death Penalty: Lessons from Maricopa County, Arizona.” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 66: 63-85.
Longazel, Jamie (2014). “Rhetorical Barriers to Mobilizing for Immigrant Rights: White Innocence and Latina/o Abstraction.” Law & Social Inquiry 39(3): 580-600.
Longazel, Jamie and Benjamin Fleury-Steiner (2013). “Beware of Notarios: Neoliberal Governance of Immigrants as Crime Victims.” Theoretical Criminology 17(3): 359-376.
Longazel, Jamie (2013). “Moral Panic as Racial Degradation Ceremony: Racial Stratification and the Local-Level Backlash against Latino/a Immigrants.” Punishment & Society 15(1): 96-119.
Longazel, Jamie (2013). “Subordinating Myth: Latino/a Immigration, Crime, and Exclusion.” Sociology Compass 7(2): 87-96.
Longazel, Jamie, Laurin S. Parker, and Ivan Y. Sun (2011). “Experiencing Court, Experiencing Race: Perceived Procedural Injustice among Court Users.” Race & Justice 1(2): 202-227.
Longazel, Jamie and Benjamin Fleury-Steiner (2011). “Exploiting Borders: The Political Economy of Local Backlash Against Undocumented Immigrants.” Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review 30:43-64.
Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin and Jamie Longazel (2010). “Neoliberalism, Community Development, and Anti-Immigrant Backlash in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.” Pp. 157-172 in Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States, edited by Monica Varsanyi. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Scholarly Achievement Award (2017) - North Central Sociological Association