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Bearing Witness and Raising Awareness: A Conversation with Jason De León

Bearing Witness and Raising Awareness: A Conversation with Jason De León

https://sarweb.org/blog-bearing-witness-and-raising-awareness-a-conversation-with-jason-de-leon/

Jason De León, SAR’s 2013–2014 Weatherhead fellow and a 2017 MacArthur fellow, is a professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a non-profit research-art-education-media collective. I recently spoke with him to learn more about his new exhibition: Hostile Terrain 94.

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2021 J. I. Staley Prize Awarded to Laurence Ralph for Renegade Dreams, Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago

2021 J. I. Staley Prize Awarded to Laurence Ralph for Renegade Dreams, Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago

https://sarweb.org/news-2021-staley-prize-renegade-dreams/

The School for Advanced Research is pleased to announce that the 2021 J. I. Staley Prize will go to Laurence Ralph, professor of anthropology at Princeton University and director of the Center on Transnational Policing, for his 2014 book, Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago (University of Chicago Press).

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Abolishing Immigration Detention: A Conversation with Deborah Boehm

Abolishing Immigration Detention: A Conversation with Deborah Boehm

https://sarweb.org/blog-abolishing-immigration-detention-a-conversation-with-deborah-boehm/

Deborah A. Boehm was a 2013 visiting research associate at SAR and is now a professor in the Department of Anthropology and chair of the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. She will be participating in a conversation with Jason De León and other scholars during SAR’s Beyond Borders Symposium on August 21, 2020, 10:00 a.m. MDT. We spoke about her year as a Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society fellow and her most recent work on the US immigration detention system.

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