Daanika Gordon completed her dissertation at the University of Wisconsin in 2018. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University.

Daanika analyzes policing in a large Midwestern city to show the relationship between residential segregation and policing practices.  Through extensive fieldwork that included ride-alongs with police officers, she shows how police react to and help create segregated spaces, producing racialized outcomes even in the absence of racial intent.