Christien Tompkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 201244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christien Tompkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christien |
| FAMILY NAME | Tompkins |
| SIGNATURE | TOMPKINS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7346-5675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eye of the Storm: Commemorating Katrina as Political Praxis
Racialization and the Gig Economy
Navigating Choice: School Buses as Racializing Infrastructure in Post‐Katrina New Orleans
This article is part of the special issue, Racialization and The Gig Economy, Anthropology of Work Review 47 (1), June 2026, edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. This article explores the expansion of school busing systems in the aftermath of New Orleans' unprecedented conversion of all public schools to privately managed charter schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The charter system strikingly moved from neighborhood schools …
There Is Not One Free Negro in This Room”: Racial Arbitrage in New Orleans Education Reform after Katrina
In the years following Hurricane Katrina, most of the decision-makers who converted the New Orleans public school system into a network of privately managed charter schools, closed schools and fired every single previous school employee, hired thousands of new teachers and educators from outside of the city, and excluded community input were white and subscribed to elitist and market-oriented theories of administration. However, it has now been n…
Feminist Cyberlaw
This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism
Pitch Black: How design entrepreneurs are rethinking race in post-Katrina schools
Putting anthropologists of design in conversation with Black studies, this article demonstrates how a group of repentant education entrepreneurs in post-Katrina New Orleans mobilized racialized affective and narrative surplus within an information economy based on design rituals and protocols. I examine how this splinter group of education reformers established design communities through ritualized "pitches" and show how the egalitarian aspiratio…
There's No Such Thing as a Bad Teacher: Reconfiguring Race and Talent in Post-Katrina Charter Schools
Based on 16 months of fieldwork in New Orleans charter schools and education non-profits from 2010–2015, this article examines contested ideologies of teacher quality in the city's reform landscape. The article discusses how notions of good and bad teachers as well as talent and human capital come to be racialized. However, the article also considers how both pro and anti-charter school constituencies frame the question of teaching labor within a…
There's No Such Thing as a Bad Teacher: Reconfiguring Race and Talent in Post-Katrina Charter Schools
Based on 16 months of fieldwork in New Orleans charter schools and education non-profits from 2010–2015, this article examines contested ideologies of teacher quality in the city's reform landscape. The article discusses how notions of good and bad teachers as well as talent and human capital come to be racialized. However, the article also considers how both pro and anti-charter school constituencies frame the question of teaching labor within a…
Pitch Black: How design entrepreneurs are rethinking race in post-Katrina schools
Putting anthropologists of design in conversation with Black studies, this article demonstrates how a group of repentant education entrepreneurs in post-Katrina New Orleans mobilized racialized affective and narrative surplus within an information economy based on design rituals and protocols. I examine how this splinter group of education reformers established design communities through ritualized "pitches" and show how the egalitarian aspiratio…
There's No Such Thing as a Bad Teacher: Reconfiguring Race and Talent in Post-Katrina Charter Schools
Based on 16 months of fieldwork in New Orleans charter schools and education non-profits from 2010–2015, this article examines contested ideologies of teacher quality in the city's reform landscape. The article discusses how notions of good and bad teachers as well as talent and human capital come to be racialized. However, the article also considers how both pro and anti-charter school constituencies frame the question of teaching labor within a…
Feminist Cyberlaw
This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism
Pitch Black: How design entrepreneurs are rethinking race in post-Katrina schools
Putting anthropologists of design in conversation with Black studies, this article demonstrates how a group of repentant education entrepreneurs in post-Katrina New Orleans mobilized racialized affective and narrative surplus within an information economy based on design rituals and protocols. I examine how this splinter group of education reformers established design communities through ritualized "pitches" and show how the egalitarian aspiratio…
Eye of the Storm: Commemorating Katrina as Political Praxis
Racialization and the Gig Economy
Navigating Choice: School Buses as Racializing Infrastructure in Post‐Katrina New Orleans
This article is part of the special issue, Racialization and The Gig Economy, Anthropology of Work Review 47 (1), June 2026, edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. This article explores the expansion of school busing systems in the aftermath of New Orleans' unprecedented conversion of all public schools to privately managed charter schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The charter system strikingly moved from neighborhood schools …
There Is Not One Free Negro in This Room”: Racial Arbitrage in New Orleans Education Reform after Katrina
In the years following Hurricane Katrina, most of the decision-makers who converted the New Orleans public school system into a network of privately managed charter schools, closed schools and fired every single previous school employee, hired thousands of new teachers and educators from outside of the city, and excluded community input were white and subscribed to elitist and market-oriented theories of administration. However, it has now been n…
Charter (3 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (2 works) · Hurricane katrina (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Racism (2 works)