Michael Sierra-Arévalo is an assistant professor of sociology and associate director of the Liberal Arts Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin. His work on police, firearms, and violence reduction has appeared in journals that include the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Criminology, Law & Society Review, and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science. His first book, “The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing” (Columbia University Press, 2024), shows how policing’s preoccupation with danger shapes police culture and violence in the United States. At UCHV, Michael will be working on his second book, tentatively titled, “It Came Wrapped in the Flag: The Militarization of Public Life and the Future of American Fascism.” It explores how post-9/11 militarism has changed our social institutions and popular culture to create fertile ground for the normalization of political violence.