His interests include racial capitalism, expressive culture, gentrification, political economy, policing and prisons, militarization, social reproduction, social theory, and the history of social movements in the United States. Camp is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016) and has co-edited Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso Books, 2016) and Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (University of Georgia Press, 2017). Camp has also received numerous fellowships, including from the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Watson Institute at Brown University, as well as the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Camp has a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara.