Dissertation:

Kalbfeld, Jessica Rose. “Privilege in Proximity: Neighborhood Change and Social Control in New York City.” New York University, Department of Sociology, 2021. Committee: Paul DiMaggio (chair), Patrick Sharkey, Delia Baldassarri, Deirdre Royster, Jacob Faber.

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Peer Reviewed Research:

Kalbfeld, Jessica Rose. “Dispersing the Critical Cloud: Critical Mass and Affirmative Action.” Law and Society Review. 53(4):1266-1304.

Faber, Jacob* and Jessica Rose Kalbfeld*. 2019. “Complaining while Black: The Adjudication of Complaints against the Chicago Police.” City & Community. 18(3): 1028-1067.

Jones, Taylor*, Jessica Rose Kalbfeld*, Ryan Hancock, and Robin Clark. 2019. “Testifying while Black: An Experimental Study of Court Reporter Transcription Accuracy for African American English.” Language. 95(2).

*equal contribution

White Papers and Reports:

Reyes, Carolyn, Sara Moore, Ella Wind, and Jessica Kalbfeld. Series on Election Deniers:

Toplines and Crosstabs

Election Denial and Democracy

How does the public view election deniers?

What is democracy, what threatens it, and does it matter? Views of U.S. registered voters

Voting rights for some? Public Opinion on laws that govern how we vote

Wind, Ella, Carolyn Reyes, Sara Moore, and Jessica Kalbfeld. “U.S. Voter Turnout in Global Perspective.” 2023.

Reyes, Carolyn, Sara Moore, Ella Wind, and Jessica Kalbfeld. “Corroding Democracy and the Roe Rollback: How Geographic Disparities in Representation Shape US Policy Outcomes.” 2023.

Reyes, Carolyn, Ella Wind, Sara Moore, and Jessica Kalbfeld. “Democracy on the Ballot: Voters’ intention and actions in battleground states in the midterm elections.” 2023.

Wind, Ella, Sara Moore, Carolyn Reyes, Jessica Kalbfeld. “News Source and Views on January 6: Media Consumption in Six Battleground States.” 2022.  

Wind, Ella, Sara Moore, Carolyn Reyes, Maddie Covino, and Jessica Kalbfeld. “U.S. Public Opinion on Accountability for January 6th Insurrectionists: Ideology Influences on Accountability Among the American Public.” 2022.  

Kalbfeld, Jessica. “The Problem of Polling.” 2022.

Kalbfeld, Jessica. “Youth GOTV Report: Spotlight on Geography.” 2022.

Kalbfeld, Jessica, Sara Moore, Carolyn Reyes, Maddie Covino, and Ella Wind. “GOTV Youth Report: Research on civic engagement, civic knowledge, and effective get-out-the-vote messaging for Americans 18-29.” 2022. Accompanying blog post

 Moore, Sara and Jessica Kalbfeld. “The Unheard Third: Why voting eligible citizens sat out the

2020 election.” 2022.

Accompanying blog posts:

Why voting eligible citizens sat out the 2020 election

The Unheard Third

The Disenfranchised

Barriers to Voting: Mental Incompetence

Barriers to Voting: Felony Conviction

Social and Structural Barriers to Voting

Intangible Barriers to Voting

Kalbfeld, Jessica. “Public Opinion on January 6, 2021.” 2021. Accompanying blog post

Kalbfeld, Jessica. “Climate Change & Voting Rights.” 2021.

Kalbfeld, Jessica. “Voter Turnout and Voting Laws.” 2021.

         Accompanying blog posts:

         When it comes to voting, easier is better

         Voting Ease by State

Academica Manuscripts in Progress:

Kalbfeld, Jessica Rose. “Neighborhood Whitening and the Implementation of Stop, Question, and Frisk.”

Kalbfeld, Jessica Rose, Taylor Jones, Ryan Hancock, and Robin Clark. “African American English in the Criminal Justice Linguistic Marketplace: Court Reporter as Street Level Bureaucrat.”

Hailey, Chantal, Jacob Faber, Jessica Rose Kalbfeld, and Joscha Legewie. “Acute Effect of Neighborhood-level Exposure to Police Stops on Educational Performance.”

Greenberg, David and Jessica Rose Kalbfeld. “Policing New York: The Allocation of Police Resources 1988-2012.”

 

Invited Talks:

Talk on the importance of public accountability to voters (with Christina Baal-Owens) at the When We All Vote Culture of Democracy Summit, 2022, Los Angeles, CA.

“Testifying While Black: Miscomprehension of African American English in the Court Room” (with Taylor Jones, Ryan Hancock, and Dr. Robin Clark)

  • 2020, The New School, NYC

  • 2019, CUNY, Computational Linguistics Speakers Series, NYC

  • 2018, NCSU Sociolinguistic Brown Bag, Raleigh

  • 2015, NYU Social Perception, Action, and Motivation Lab, NYC

 

Conference Presentations:

“African American English in the Judicial Linguistic Marketplace: Do Black Court Reporters Transcribe AAE Better than their Non-Black Counterparts?”

  • 2020, Linguistics Society of America, New Orleans


“Social Distance in Spatial Proximity: The Case of Low-Level Policing in Changing Urban Neighborhoods”

  • 2019, American Sociological Association, New York, NY


“Testifying While Black Revisited: Court Reporter (Mis)transcription of African American English” (with Taylor Jones)

  • 2019, American Society of Criminology, San Francisco

  • 2019, Law and Society Association, Washington, D.C.


“Testifying While Black: Miscomprehension of African American English in the Court Room” (with Taylor Jones, Ryan Hancock, and Dr. Robin Clark)

  • 2017, Linguistics Society of America, Austin


“Neighborhood Context and Policing in Proximity to Public Housing.”

  • 2018, Law and Society Association, Toronto

  • 2018, American Society of Criminology, Atlanta

 

“Acute Effect of Neighborhood-level Exposure to Police Stops on Educational Performance.” (with Chantal Hailey, Dr. Jacob Faber, and Dr. Joscha Legewie)

  • 2018, American Sociological Association, Philadelphia

  • 2018, Population Association of America, Denver

  • 2018, NYU Crime, Law, and Deviance Workshop, New York City

  • 2017, Association of Black Sociologists, Montreal

 

“Neighborhood Whitening and the Implementation of Stop, Question, and Frisk”

  • 2018, American Sociological Association, Philadelphia

  • 2015, Law and Society Association, Seattle

  • 2014, American Society of Criminology, San Francisco

  • 2014, NYU Crime, Law, and Deviance Workshop, New York City

 

“Dispersing the Critical Cloud: Critical Mass and Affirmative Action”

  • 2017, American Sociological Association, Montreal

 

“Complaining While Black: The Adjudication of Complaints Against Chicago Police” (with Dr. Jacob Faber)

  • 2017, American Sociological Association, Montreal

  • 2016, American Society of Criminology, New Orleans

 

“Policing New York: The Allocation of Police Resources 1988-2012” (with Dr. David Greenberg)

  • 2016, American Society of Criminology, New Orleans

 

“The Racialization of Broken Windows”

  • 2016, Law and Society Association, New Orleans

  • 2016, American Sociological Association, Seattle

 

“Telling Secrets to Strangers: Exploring Participation in an Anonymous Posting App” (with Dr. Sarah Cowan)

  • 2015, Eastern Sociology Society, New York City