Lucia Leon, PhD

Lucia Leon grew up in Orange County, California where she began organizing with undocumented youth and their families in the mid-2000s. Her commitment to social justice and research interest on migration is profoundly shaped by her family’s experience with the family...

Micah Khater, PhD

Micah Khater’s dissertation, “‘Unable to Find Any Trace of Her’: Black Women, Genealogies of Escape, and Alabama Prisons, 1920–1950,” examines how black women negotiated encounters with and contested the violence of the carceral state by running away from...

Joss Greene, PhD

Joss studies state punishment of gender and sexual variance, with a focus on transgender experiences with the criminal justice system.  His dissertation traces prison regulation of gender-nonconformity in California from 1941-2018, drawing on archival research, oral...

Madeleine Pape, PhD

Madeleine Pape analyzes how governing bodies reassert sex as binary and biological despite alternative notions becoming more credible as a result of transgender, intersex, queer, and feminist activism and scholarship.  She focuses on how the governing organizations in...

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