Rahim Kurwa
CLJ Faculty
Criminology, Law, and Justice
Pronouns: He/Him/His
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About
Assistant Professor
Rahim Kurwa is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice and Department of Sociology (by courtesy) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work is focused on how municipalities utilize policing to reproduce racial segregation in an era governed by fair housing law, the history and consequences of the policing of subsidized housing, and the work of tenants and legal advocates to resist that policing. He is currently writing a manuscript exploring these topics, titled Apartheid’s Afterlives: Policing Black Life in the Antelope Valley. His work has been published in City and Community, Du Bois Review, Feminist Formations, Housing Policy Debate, and Surveillance and Society. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation, and serves as the chair of the Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Selected Publications
Peer-reviewed papers:
- Gurusami, Susila and Rahim Kurwa (2021). “From Broken Windows to Broken Homes: Homebreaking as Racialized and Gendered Poverty Governance.” Feminist Formations 33, no. 1 (2021): 1-32.
- Kurwa, Rahim. 2020. “Opposing and Policing Racial Integration: Evidence from the Housing Choice Voucher Program.” Du Bois Review.
- Kurwa, Rahim. 2020. “The New ‘Man in the House’ Rules: How the Regulation of Housing Vouchers turns Personal Bonds into Eviction Liabilities” Housing Policy Debate.
- Kurwa, Rahim. 2019. “Building the Digitally Gated Community: The Case of Nextdoor.” Surveillance & Society 17, no. 1/2: 111-117.
- Kurwa, Rahim. 2015. “Deconcentration without integration: Examining the social outcomes of housing choice voucher movement in Los Angeles County.” City & Community 14, no. 4 (2015): 364-391.
Public writing:
- Review of François Bonnet’s “The Upper Limit: How Low Wage Work Defines Punishment and Welfare” Contemporary Sociology
- Segregatory Consequences of the Carceral State. Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Conference Open-Access Volume.
- Policing’s Role in Racial Segregation: 50 Years After the Fair Housing Act. Los Angeles Social Science Forum
- Nextdoor in Context. Blink
News Coverage:
- Study Examines “Man in the House” Rules in the Voucher Program. National Low Income Housing Coalition
- Opinion: How white people used police to make L.A. one of the most segregated cities in America. Matthew Fleischer, Los Angeles Times
- Think racial segregation is over? Here’s how the police still enforce it. Nikita Lalwani and Mitchell Johnston, Washington Post
- On Nextdoor, the Homeless Are the Enemy. Rick Paulas, OneZero.
- Same city, different opportunities: Study maps life outcomes for children from Chicago neighborhoods. Cecilia Reyes and Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune.
Recorded events:
- Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 2021 Symposium – Radical Reimagining: The Carceral State and Abolitionist Responses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVzXkgh9lE0
Notable Honors
2021, Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation
2021, Honoring Our Professor's Excellence (HOPE), University of Illinois CHicago On-Campus Housing
2019, Early Career researcher Award, Surveillance Studies Network