Kimberley D. McKinson

Kimberley D. McKinson

Kimberley D. McKinson is an assistant professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of crime, security and insecurity, memory, postcoloniality, and storytelling in Jamaica. Her in-progress first book project, “In the Shadow of the Monster: Memoirs of In/security in and beyond High-Crime Jamaica,” draws on her fieldwork conducted in Kingston. Author photograph © John A. Russell


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