He is on leave for the 2024-25 academic year as a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values.
His new book, "THE DANGER IMPERATIVE: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing", shows how policing’s preoccupation with danger shapes police culture and violence in the United States.
Sierra-Arévalo's research is published in leading journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Criminology, Law & Society Review, and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
His writing and research are widely featured in media, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Times Higher Education, Slate, GQ, and NPR.
He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University and his B.A. in Sociology and Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.
