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Jon Gordon

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Doctoral Student Fellow

PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Project: Precarious Peace: Violence and Imaginaries of Security in Medellín, Colombia

Jon Gordon is a PhD candidate in Sociology at New York University. His dissertation, Precarious Peace: Violence and Imaginaries of Security in Medellin, Colombia is an extended ethnographic study of how a legally unsanctioned armed organization in a low-income neighborhood of Medellin wielded and ascribed meaning to violence, interrelated with residents and institutional actors, and adopted peaceful problem-solving strategies from 2012 to 2017. His research interests bridge urban and political sociology and developed during 18 years of living, working, and traveling in Latin American countries. His work has been supported by grants from New York University and the Social Science Research Council.