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Biography

Professor Thusi is a Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law with a joint appointment at the Kinsey Institute. Her research examines racial and sexual hierarchies as they relate to policing, race, and gender. Her articles and essays have been published or are forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, NYU Law Review, Northwestern Law Review (twice), Georgetown Law Journal, Cornell Law Review Online, amongst others.

Thusi’s research is inextricably connected to her previous legal experience at organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and—most recently—The Opportunity Agenda, a social justice communication lab that collaborates to effect lasting policy and culture change. She served as a federal law clerk to two social justice giants: the Honorable Robert L. Carter, who sat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and was the lead counsel for the NAACP in Brown v. Board of Education; and the Honorable Damon J. Keith, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and is lauded for his prominent civil rights jurisprudence. She also clerked for Justice van der Westhuizen at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the country’s highest court.

Among other acknowledgements throughout her career, Thusi was selected as a Fulbright U.S. Global Scholar for 2020-2023. Her paper “Reality Porn” was selected for the 2020 Stanford/Harvard/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, and she was recognized as a Top 40 Rising Young Lawyer by the American Bar Association in 2019. Her most recent paper was selected for the 2021 Equality Law Scholars Workshop.
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Activities

Employment (5)

Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex Gender and Reproduction: Bloomington, IN, US

2021-07 to present | Senior Scientist
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Indiana University Maurer School of Law: Bloomington, IN, US

2021-07 to present | Professor of Law
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Widener University Delaware Law School: Wilmington, DE, US

2020-07 to 2021-06 | Associate Professor of Law
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California Western School of Law: San Diego, CA, US

2017-07 to 2020-07 | Associate Professor of Law (2018-2020); Assistant Professor of Law (2017-2018)
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Harvard University : Cambridge, MA, US

2015-02 to 2015-07 | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Fellow
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

2017-12 | Ph.D. Social Anthropology and Law & Society
Education
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Fordham University School of Law : New York, NY, US

2007 | JD
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Emory University : Atlanta, GA, US

2003 | BA, Anthropology and English
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Works (32)

Ne Nya Sexpuritanerna

Yale Journal of Law and Feminism
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, I. India
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Girls, Assaulted

Northwestern University Law Review
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, I. India
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Remarks

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, published by the American Society of International Law
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, India
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The Pathological Whiteness of Prosecution

California Law Review
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, I. India
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Feminist Scripts for Punishment

Harvard Law Review
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, I. India
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Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg

Stanford University Press
2021 | Book
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Policing Is Not a Good

GLJ Online (Georgetown Law Journal Online)
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, India
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Reality Porn

New York University Law Review
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, I. India
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Revised Majority Opinion for Erotic Services Provider Legal Education and Research Project v. Gascon

Revised Feminist Judgments: Criminal Law
2021 | Book chapter
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The Biopolitics of Maskless Police

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, India
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Beyond Policing

The Opportunity Agenda
2020 | Interactive resource
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Blue Lives & the Permanence of Racism

Cornell Law Review Online
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, India
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On Beauty and Policing

Northwestern University Law Review
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, I. India
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Harm, Sex, and Consequences

Utah Law Review
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, I. India
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#2020Census: The Value of Counting Everyone

Insights: The Opportunity Agenda Blog
2019-06-27 | Interactive resource
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Radical Feminist Harms on Sex Workers

Lewis & Clark Law Review
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, I. India
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What Prosecutors Get Wrong About Sex Trafficking

The Voice of San Diego
2018-05-16 | Interactive resource
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Trump Exploits Parkland Shooting by Trying to Push More Kids Out of School

Salon
2018-03-21 | Interactive resource
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Human Rights in State Courts

The Opportunity Agenda
2017 | Interactive resource
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Protecting DACA and Our Dreams

Insights: The Opportunity Agenda Blog
2017-09-01 | Interactive resource
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Jeff Sessions is Stuck in the Police Work of the Past

The Hill
2017-07-19 | Interactive resource
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Why is Sessions doubling down on a failed drug war?

The Hill
2017-05-12 | Interactive resource
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5 Policy Changes Needed in the Wake of the Alton Sterling Case

The Hill
2017-05-04 | Interactive resource
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Trump and Sessions Peddle Fear Instead of Solutions to Crime

The Hill
2017-04-26 | Interactive resource
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How to Talk About the Executive Orders on Policing

Insights: The Opportunity Agenda Blog
2017-03-02 | Interactive resource
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Transforming the System

The Opportunity Agenda
2016 | Interactive resource
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10 Ways to Hold Police Who Kill Blacks Accountable

Ebony
2016-12-09 | Interactive resource
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Trump Shouldn't Stop Momentum for Criminal Justice Reform

The Hill
2016-11-23 | Interactive resource
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Policing Sex: The Colonial, Apartheid, and New Democracy Policing of Sex Work in South Africa

Fordham International Law Journal
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Thusi, I. India Geronimo
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Deconstructing the Marginalization of Underclass Students: Disciplinary Alternative Education

University of Toledo Law Review
2011 | Journal article
Contributors: Geronimo, India
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Systemic Failure: The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Discrimination against Poor Minority Students

Journal of Law in Society
2011 | Journal article
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Policy Report: Policing in Schools

American Civil Liberties Union
2009 | Interactive resource
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