Scholarship and Biography

I examine the intertwined histories of the U.S. carceral state, neoliberal capitalism, racial formation, and gender politics through the experiences of incarcerated women activists in California. My research tells a grassroots history of the mass incarceration of women from the late 1970s through the early 2000s and the emergence of a women’s social movement inside California prisons at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Organizational Affiliations

Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Carceral Studies and the Humanities, Department of African and African American Studies, Brandeis University

Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Carceral Studies and the Humanities, Interdepartmental Program in Legal Studies, Brandeis University

Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Carceral Studies and the Humanities, Department of English, Brandeis University

Education

University of Southern California
M.A.
New York University
M.A.
George Mason University
B.F.A.