Callie Cleckner, PhD

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University's BRIDGS Initiative to Bring Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society, directed by Dr. Jennifer Carlson.

As a sociologist, I conduct qualitative research at the intersections of gun culture, race/ethnicity, organizations, and gender/families. In 2025, received my PhD from Indiana University Bloomington--where I conducted an ethnographic and interview study of gun show organizations.

I recently published an article in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity with co-authors Jelani Ince and Tim Hallett entitled "Extending the Bridge: Racialized Organizations, Inhabited Institutionalism, and Racialization"