Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore serves as a professor of geography and her wide-ranging research interests include revolution and reform environments and movements prisons urban-rural continuities and the African diaspora. From 2010 to 2011 she was president of the American Studies Association (ASA) the nation's oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history.
In her first book Golden Gulag: Prisons Surplus Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California which ASA recognized with its Lora Romero First Book Award she examined how political and economic forces produced California's prison boom. Her work is widely anthologized including in the groundbreaking essay compilation The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.
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