November 2024 was a very busy month for CrimSL postdoctoral fellow Christina Aushana (Supv: Professor Patrick Watson): she presented her research at three separate conferences.
On November 16 she presented at the American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting in Baltimore as part of a panel, “Carceral Grounds: Producing Place Through Policing.” Her presentation entitled “Revising Performance: Reading Against the Grain of Police Training” explored one genre of scenario training known as “Pedestrian Stops” in order to unmask the performances of violent masculinity and anti-Blackness embedded within the improvisational pedagogies of racialized police training.
On November 20 Christina discussed how San Diego police trainings anticipate citizen oversight concerns and crises, and embody them as police practices, as part of the session "Racial Vernaculars in the Civilian Oversight of Policing" at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Tampa.
On November 23 she chaired the session "Visual Representation in Journalism and Public Media" and was a discussant for the session "Cultures of Racial/Gendered Capitalism: Media and Oversight" at the National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention in New Orleans
Christina is an interdisciplinary performance ethnographer of policing and media studies scholar researching contemporary transformations in police training in situ and the tacit cultures of anti-Black violence that shape both police officers’ and recruits’ professional vision in interaction and visual cultures of policing