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Jennifer Carlson

Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University, 2022 MacArthur Fellow & Author of "Merchants of the Right"

Jennifer Carlson
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Jennifer Carlson Biography

Dr. Jennifer Carlson is a sociologist reconfiguring our understanding of gun culture in the United States. Through ethnographic research with gun owners, educators, and sellers; law enforcement; and state licensing bodies, Carlson investigates the motivations and assumptions that drive gun culture.

Carlson’s first book, "Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline" (2015), examines why individuals choose to own and carry firearms. Her interviews with gun carriers probe their motivations for carrying a gun—often described in terms of personal safety—to reveal the civic and moral duties they attach to gun ownership. Carlson traces the development of gun carrying as a political practice to, in part, the agenda of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Roughly a million people are trained each year by NRA-certified instructors, and in many states NRA training meets the qualification for concealed carry licensing. NRA training emphasizes guns as an indispensable tool of good citizenship.

She is also at work on a large-scale study of trauma among people affected by gun violence. With her balanced and rigorous approach, Carlson is a sought-after voice on the nuances of gun culture in the United States.

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Jennifer Carlson Speaking Topics

  • Moving Through our Gun Dilemmas

    Can we have a better gun debate? Political divisiveness is at an all-time high–and nowhere is this more apparent than in the debate about guns in society. Drawing on rich accounts of how guns impact Americans, this talk suggests that we don’t have a gun debate–but a gun dilemma, characterized by the abundant presence of guns alongside an intolerable level of gun violence. It offers two guiding aphorisms to rethink the gun debate: first, we don’t have a gun violence problem, we have a gun trauma problem and second, guns solve problems for the people who turn to them. In doing so, this talk opens up a third space to journey through the gun debate with compassion and vulnerability rather than dehumanizing discord. Attendee results:

    • Understand gun trauma as a dominant thread within American society that impacts individuals, families and communities
    • Understand motivations for gun ownership that move beyond the partisan narratives of gun rights with real-world examples
    • Bring compassion and vulnerability into the conversation about guns
    • Learn effective, outside-the-box strategies for addressing gun harm

  • Democracy & Gun Politics

    In 2020 and 2021, gun sellers found themselves at the center of a historic surge in gun purchasing. Roughly 20% of American households purchased a gun–and up to more than 8 million people became first-time gun owners. These new gun owners differed from existing gun owners in a number of ways: they were younger, more likely to be women, more likely to be racialized minorities and members of the LGBTQ community, and they were also more likely to be liberal. This massive surge in gun purchasing gave longstanding gun rights advocates, themselves disproportionately conservative, a choice: to double down on gun politics as conservative terrain or to move toward a new, perhaps post-partisan future. This talk takes us to the frontlines of this surge and examines how gun sellers themselves largely chose the former–doubling down on gun rights as conservative politics. Using in-depth interviews with gun sellers as a window into contemporary American politics, this talk maps out how gun politics impacts the democratic challenges currently facing the US–and how we must transform our culture of democracy as a result.

    Attendee results:

    • Learn the factors driving gun ownership in the US
    • Understand how conservative politics, the politics of democracy, and gun rights intersect
    • Appreciate the role of culture–alongside institutions–in shaping the health of American democracy
    • Acquire tools for reimagining and re-engaging democracy

  • Race, Guns Rights & Gun Violence

    The movement for gun control and the movement for criminal justice reform represent two of the major political mobilizations of the 21st century. Yet, while African Americans are situated at the noxious intersection of harms caused both by the criminal justice system and gun violence, the relationship between these two movements has often been at odds–largely because in the United States, gun control has often taken the form of gun criminalization. This talk troubles the terms of the current gun debate by centering the politics of race in order to unravel how the criminal justice system has responded to the broad prevalence of guns–and how we must reimagine gun policy if we are to effectively reduce gun harm.

    Attendees results:

    • Grasp how the history of the criminal justice system, especially the police, has informed the politics of guns
    • Understand how police experience and engage gun policy with rich examples
    • Wrestle with how different kinds of gun violence–from mass shootings to community gun violence–elicit different kinds of policy frameworks and different approaches to policy enforcement
    • Learn to envision new kinds of approaches to gun harm that elevate individuals and communities

Jennifer Carlson Videos

  • Beyond Partisanship, Toward a Better Gun Debate | Jennifer Carlson
    Beyond Partisanship, Toward a Better Gun Debate | Jennifer Carlson
    MacArthur Fellow Jennifer Carlson talks about partisanship and the need to see beyond the either-or debate surrounding guns in U.S. politics ...
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Jennifer Carlson Books

  • Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
    Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
  • Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race
    Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race
  • Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline
    Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline

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Jennifer Carlson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Moving Through our Gun Dilemmas, Democracy & Gun Politics and Race, Guns Rights & Gun Violence. The estimated speaking fee range to book Jennifer Carlson for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Jennifer Carlson generally travels from Phoenix, AZ, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Ann Fradkin-Hayslip Ed.D., Tania Israel, Kimberly Wehle and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jennifer Carlson for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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