The full story can be located on the ASA’s website here. Dr. Gurusami’s paper, “Motherwork Under the State: The Maternal Labor of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women” can be found and read at Oxford…
“We’re joined by Liat Ben-Moshe to discuss the largest instance of carceral abolition in modern American history: the closure, in the 20th century, of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals.” To read/listen to the…
Congratulations to Erin O’Callaghan on passing her dissertation proposal defense! Congratulations to Veronica Shepp on passing the departmental preliminary exams!
“Susila Gurusami is a sociologist of race, gender, punishment, and labor, with particular interests in carceral governance. She received her PhD in sociology from UCLA in 2017 and is a former University of…
“Erin O’Callaghan is a Phd Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, US. Her dissertation will be a mixed methods study of survivors of sexual assault involving substance use at the time…
“In this panel, leading disability justice and abolitionist community organizers and thinkers – Mia Mingus, Talila “TL” Lewis, and Liat Ben-Moshe (moderated by Connie Wun)- discuss the importance of centering disability justice in…
“Rape is a major public health issue affecting an estimated 20% of American women in their lifetimes and costing billions of dollars each year due to harmful outcomes — like problem drinking, depression…
Professor Alana Gunn won a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Grant for the project “The Effects of Hyper-Surveillance on the Health and Wellbeing of Justice-Involved Families: A Structural Violence Perspective.”