Carceral Studies at the University of Oklahoma @ou_csc
The Carceral Studies Consortium connects people at OU and beyond to cultivate rigorous scholarship and community engagement related to carceral issues. architecture.ou.edu/csc/ Joined June 2020-
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The OU Carceral Studies Consortium has begun its search for a graduate research fellow (2023-2024). Please find the details for the position in the attached flier, or visit the link below. carceralstudies.oucreate.com/carceral-studi…
Check out our latest newsletter! We explored Oklahoma prison populations, music and poetry, systemic racism in policing, and more. conta.cc/42QedDl
REMINDER: Spring 2023 Community Engagement Micro-Grant Applications are due Friday, March 31st! Faculty, staff, students, and community consortium members are encouraged to apply for projects related to carceral studies. ousurvey.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0B…
The OU Carceral Studies Consortium Spring 2023 Full Board Meeting is TOMORROW March 20th @ 2pm! All CSC board members are encouraged to attend and engage. Register now! calendar.ou.edu/carceral-studi…
Check out our latest newsletter! This week, we traverse creative arts in the carceral space, police surveillance, prison architecture, and more. conta.cc/3kPdRg6
Fall 2022 Micro-Grant Applications due TONIGHT! Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to apply for projects related to carceral studies. ousurvey.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6l…
@5yearmadness @SCBuddhist @CallMeEleanora @legndofphoenix @briancanavan1 Lastly, incarceration rates don't measure risk. That's what white supremacists do to justify the disproportionate incarceration of black people. Trans people are more than twice as likely to be incarcerated for the same offence as non-trans people. cnn.com/2021/06/23/us/…
Our latest issue includes "(In)-justice: An exploration of the dehumanization, victimization, criminalization, and over-incarceration of Indigenous women in Canada" by @MicMMcG and @DaniJMurdoch And it's #OpenAccess! @SageCriminology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to apply for the Carceral Studies Consortium's Fall 2022 Micro-Grants for projects that engage the community and/or support social or policy outcomes! Due October 18th: ousurvey.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6l…
Remember to join @ou_csc tomorrow (Monday 9/26) at 4pm for our biannual fall full board meeting! oklahoma.zoom.us/j/97131157756?…
Join @ou_csc and @OKJusticeReform on September 15th at 6pm for "Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees and Fines in a Randomized Experiment", featuring scholar Dr. Bruce Western @WesternBruce from the Columbia University Justice Lab. Join via FB live or Zoom!
Check out our latest addition of the Carceral Studies Consortium Newsletter! This week, we feature recent news and scholarship traversing topics including the impact of abortion bans on incarcerated women and girls, and more. gibbs.oucreate.com/regional-city-…
Join @UofOklahomaLaw on Zoom today for their "Ending Mass Incarceration" Symposium featuring experts from across the U.S. Learn more and join: bit.ly/356pLKk
Join @UofOklahomaLaw on Zoom today for their "Ending Mass Incarceration" Symposium featuring experts from across the U.S. Learn more and join: bit.ly/356pLKk
New podcast episode w/ @SPSarantakos about social care work, movement lawyering as a framework for social work, & the ethics of social work and being subversive. soundcloud.com/ou-carceralstu…
See you there today! Register register register!! Come be in community with other Oklahomans eager for change!
See you there today! Register register register!! Come be in community with other Oklahomans eager for change!
New episode! @dylanrodriguez on the persistence and logics of anti-Black chattel slavery as a mode of sociality, the U.S. as a self-narrated reformist nation, freedom movements, and knowledge production & academia in relation to radical work. soundcloud.com/ou-carceralstu…
Check out our new episode with @OrdazYesika who discusses the detention and deportation regime, the violence in the detention process, and the transnational migrant politics that formed in opposition to this violent regime. Interesting & timely discussion. soundcloud.com/ou-carceralstu…

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