Welfare and Incarceration in the U.S.
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann is an Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. She received her doctorate…
Browsing: Carceral state
Robert Chase on the Prisoners’ Rights Movement
Robert T. Chase is an assistant professor of history at Stony Brook University, State University…
Miroslava Chávez-García: Youth of Color and California’s Carceral State
Miroslava Chávez-García is professor in the Chicana & Chicano Studies Department at the University of…
Alex Lichtenstein: Flocatex and the Fiscal Limits of Mass Incarceration
Alex Lichtenstein teaches U.S. and South African history at Indiana University, Bloomington. His first book,…
Seigel: A Field-Changing Special Issue for a Swiftly-Changing Field
Micol Seigel is associate professor of American Studies and History at Indiana University, Bloomington, where…
Jeffrey Adler: Less Crime, More Punishment
Jeffrey S. Adler is professor of History and Criminology and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University…
Timothy Stewart-Winter: Queer Law and Order
Timothy Stewart-Winter is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-Newark. His first book Queer…
The Size and Scope of the Carceral State
Kelly Lytle Hernández, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson are the contributing editors for…
Announcing the June JAH: “Historians and the Carceral State”
We are pleased to announce the publication of the June 2015 issue of the Journal of…
Thompson and Hernandez: Historians and the Carceral State
June’s special issue of the Journal of American History focuses on “Historians and the Carceral State.” The…