Kalfani Ture PhD
Dr. Kalfani Ture is a faculty member at Maryland’s Mount Saint Mary’s University as of August 2021. Ture joined the Mount for a appointment at Yale University (Sociology Department). Amid anti-racial protests and calls to end police violence in America, Turè, has emerged as one of the nation’s leading experts on policing (nationally) and gentrification (Barry Farms, Washington, DC).Turè, a Black man, former police officer, and trained ethnographer currently maintains an appointment as a senior Fellow in the Urban Ethnography Project at Yale Universities. He offers a unique prospective on matters of race, place, and urban law enforcement. Dr. Turè has provided expertise and insight to national media outlets such as “The New York Times,” “USA Today” Atlanta Constitutional Journal and has appeared live on MSNBC, NPR, Fox News, CNN and more. He is a frequent guest lecturer at Rutgers, Yale, Morgan State University. His activism around police reform is featured in a soon to be released Netflix documentary on police and racialized violence which is predicted to progressively change discourse on policing reform. An urban ethnographer, Turè earned a postdoctoral certificate in Sociology from Yale, a Ph.D. in Anthropology from American University, a master’s in Applied Anthropology from Georgia State University and a bachelor’s in African/African American Studies and Criminal Justice from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He was a police officer in metropolitan Atlanta.
