June 24, 2025
Spring 2025 marked the fourth iteration of a Big Ideas course on prison abolition, one born out of collaboration between Ethnic Studies, the AC Center, and the College of Letters and Sciences, and animated by critical and lived entanglements with the carceral state. This year, Keith Feldman worked with Eric Stanley (Gender and Women’s Studies), Ianna Hawkins Owen (Gender and Women’s Studies), and Erin Michelle Turner Kerrison, and a slate of fabulous graduate students. L & S has just published a feature on the course! As one student, Ethnic Studies Junior Amelia Pinto, noted:
“Getting to learn alongside peers and professors from different disciplines and perspectives created really robust dialogue that gave me more insight into abolitionist praxis and how we can take care of one another…. All four professors brought something different to the table, and that was truly the greatest gift to all of us as learners.”
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