Advisory Board

2012-13

Susan A. Reed, Director, CSREG; Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies

Erdogan Bakir, Assistant Professor, Economics

Nina Banks, Associate Professor, Economics

Elizabeth Durden, Assistant Professor, Sociology

Carmen Gillespie, Professor, English

Michael James, Associate Professor, Political Science

Alejandra Roncallo, Assistant Professor, International Relations

Atiya Stokes-Brown, Assistant Professor, Political Science

Carol White, Professor, Religion

Social Science Colloquium

2012-13: Mass Incarceration in the United States

The U.S. has the largest number of prisoners, and the highest rate of incarceration, of any country in the world. This year's colloquium will explore the social, political, and economic consequences of mass incarceration in American society.

Spring Speakers

Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
7 p.m. in the ELC Forum
Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Temple University Department of History

March 21, 2013
4-6 p.m.
Hunt Hall 101 - Living Room, Hunt Formal
People, Policies & Prisons: Experiences with Incarceration in PA
This event features a panel discussion of the policy-based social and economic factors that contribute to criminal behavior and sentencing, and also shape the experiences of incarceration and re-entry into society. The panel features: John Wetzel, Secretary of the PA Department of Corrections, Ann Schwartzman, Policy Director at the Pennsylvania Prison Society, Tyrone Werts, Executive Director of the Lifers Safety Initiative, formerly incarcerated at SCI Graterford, Tina Dixon Spence, Executive Assistant to the Director of the Pennsylvania Prison Society.

For more information on the colloquium or individual speakers, contact one of the series faculty coordinators: Atiya Kai Stokes-Brown or Michael Rabinder James.