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The Center in Law, Society and Culture and the Department of Women's Studies present: Sarah Haley - Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, UCLA

Prof. Haley received her PhD in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University in 2010 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University's Center for African American Studies from 2010-2011. She is currently writing a book entitled Engendering Captivity: Black Women and Punishment in Georgia After the Civil War, which examines the lives of imprisoned women in the U.S. South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This study examines regimes of gendered racial terror, the construction and development of racialized gender categories, and individual and collective resistance practices. This manuscript expands the research and analysis of her dissertation, which was awarded the 2010 Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize in U.S. Women's History from the Organization of American Historians. Prof. Haley's research interests include black feminist theory, African American and Women's history, labor and working-class studies, and critical carceral studies.
The lecture will be followed by a small workshop lead by Prof. Haley for graduate students and faculty interested in black women’s history and the United States carceral system. The event is free to attend, and a light lunch will be served.
This event is open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies.

Please contact Akhila at aananth@uci.edu to RSVP for the lecture or if you are interested in participating in the workshop.