Omar Montana, Ph.D.

Dr. Montana is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at St. John’s University. He joined the department in 2021 and since then has enjoyed teaching undergraduates and graduates in both his sociology and criminology courses to interrogate power and critically thinking about social life. His teaching and research centers on the reproduction of social inequality and everyday criminalization and how they manifest across race, class, gender, and, emotions under 21st century neoliberal capitalism. His favorite classes to teach are Introduction to Sociology, Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Policing and Society. He received his Bachelor's from Queens College in 2011 and Ph.D. in sociology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2021.  

His first book Generation Stress: Youth, Hyper-Neoliberal Personhood, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (under contract with Rutgers University Press) studies how young people in New York City pursue social mobility across the institutions of education, labor, and housing under a political-economy of neoliberalism and an American culture of stress.   

Recent Publications
 

Policing Corona: Crime, Social Bulimia, and Racial Capitalism, 2024, in Critical Criminology

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10612-023-09745-1

Book Review of The Shaming State, 2024, in Critical Criminology 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10612-024-09810-3