Shea Streeter

Shea Streeter serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, contributing to both American Politics and Comparative Politics disciplines.

Her research program investigates how race and gender shape experiences, perceptions, and responses to violence, with a primary focus on police violence in the United States. By applying Comparative Politics frameworks to American contexts, she has uncovered critical insights into racial disparities in police killings between Black and White individuals, the influence of personal racial identity on perceptions of police violence, and significant racial gaps in protest mobilization following such incidents. Her work bridges structural analysis of state violence with individual-level behavioral responses.

Streeter's recent publications (2019-2022) demonstrate consistent scholarly focus on racialized state violence and carceral systems. Key thematic threads include deservingness perceptions in police abuse, methodological approaches to studying abolition, and empirical analysis of racial disparities in lethal force. This cohesive body of work positions her at the intersection of political violence research, critical race studies, and criminal justice reform scholarship within contemporary political science.