Overview
Lewis Raven Wallace is a journalist, author, and student of history based in Durham, North Carolina. His first book, The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), explores how the ideology of "objective" news reporting in the United States has been a tool of gatekeeping, exclusion, and complicity with racism and transphobia. His second book, Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within (Boston: Beacon Press, 2025), draws on the science of neuroplasticity and trauma healing to show how people create the conditions to let go of deeply held beliefs and transform harm. Lewis is a 2021 Ford Global Fellow, a 2020 Harvard Nieman Visiting Journalism Fellow, and the journalism fellow at Interrupting Criminalization. He is white and transgender, born and raised in the midwest with deep roots in the south, and his work is guided by a long term commitment to Black feminist, abolitionist, southern, and surrealist ways of seeing and enacting change.
Lewis's academic work explores the intersections between humans, nonhuman animals, policing and regulation, and the ideologies produced and reinforced by built environments under settler colonialism. He is, in other words, a student of pigs and policing.
Lewis's academic work explores the intersections between humans, nonhuman animals, policing and regulation, and the ideologies produced and reinforced by built environments under settler colonialism. He is, in other words, a student of pigs and policing.