Matthew McLeskey

Dr. Matthew H. McLeskey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Oswego. He recently finished his Ph.D. in sociology with expertise in critical criminology, urban studies and intersectional inequalities at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was an Advanced Dissertation Fellow at the Humanities Institute and a Research Assistant in the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the School of Law. He was recently named as a Publishing Fellow with the Urban Affairs Association.

Broadly speaking, my research interrogates how the relationship between medical institutions and the criminal justice system reproduces numerous inequalities in urban contexts. He currently focuses on how America’s lead poisoning epidemic caused by dilapidated housing in disinvested, often segregated neighborhoods(re)produces racial health disparities, hinders neighborhood community well-being and housing security, and ultimately contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline.