A geographer and anthropologist, Professor Lewis's work examines how inequality is created and contested across political, economic, and cultural life. His research spans the United States and the Caribbean, focusing on how people and institutions respond to histories of injustice and how they imagine futures grounded in repair and redress. Lewis is the author of Scammer’s Yard and Violent Utopia, award-winning books that explore development, dispossession, and the politics of justice in Jamaica and Tulsa, OK, respectively. He also served as a governor-appointed member of the California Reparations Task Force, the first state-level body of its kind. His current work investigates how today’s political and economic challenges are shaped by enduring questions of accountability, governance, and repair. He earned his PhD in anthropology from the London School of Economics.