Kierstan Kaushal-Carter

Kierstan Kaushal-Carter is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Carey Law School. Her research examines normative foundations of policing, citizen-state relationships, and ethical obligations of law enforcement through interdisciplinary lenses of political theory and urban sociology.

Education includes a PhD in African and African American Studies and MA in Government from Harvard University, complemented by a BA in English and American Culture Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. Her dissertation developed a first-principles framework for police ethics and civic responsibility.

Published writings appear in The St. Louis Anthology and The New Republic Magazine, exploring intersections of law, society, and institutional accountability.