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Carceral Studies Consortium Graduate Fellowship 2023-2024
Overview of the Carceral Studies Consortium It is the premise of Carceral Studies that the problem of carcerality and unfreedom can only be addressed by the sophisticated coming-together of different disciplines and fields, a rich array of theoretical traditions, and a diverse set of methodological interventions. To this end, the Carceral Studies Consortium (CSC) brings…
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Carceral Studies Consortium Newsletters
Welcome to the University of Oklahoma Carceral Studies Consortium Newsletter. The Carceral Studies Consortium strives to build a community for intellectual exploration that includes faculty, staff, graduate students, community members, practitioners, and organizers. Carceral Studies is concerned with the independent function and nexus of the political and social systems that organize, shape, sustain, and entrench…
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OU Carceral Studies Consortium to Host Spring 2023 Full Board Meeting
The Carceral Studies Consortium Spring 2023 full board meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 21st @ 2pm, to which all board members are invited to attend and get engaged! Please register for the event (link provided below) to receive a Zoom invitation and add it to your calendar, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the…
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OU Carceral Studies Consortium Spring 2023 Community Engagement Micro-Grants – OPEN NOW
The Carceral Studies Consortium brings together community members, faculty, staff, and students from across the University of Oklahoma and beyond to cultivate and support rigorous research, pedagogy, and community engagement toward social transformation. To accomplish this mission, the Consortium offers two micro-grants of up to $500 to OU faculty, staff, and students to support the development of research, pedagogy, and community…
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Organization of American Historians to Host “New Approaches to Carceral Studies”
In recent years, U.S. historians have devoted significant attention to prisons, policing, criminal law, and racialized mass incarceration. Long neglected by US historians, carceral state history is now one of the most vibrant subfields of US history. Interest has only increased following the summer rebellions and public debates of 2020, particularly around broad arguments for…
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OU Carceral Studies Consortium to Host Undergraduate Reading Group
The Carceral Studies Consortium will facilitate an undergraduate reading group in Spring 2023, where participating students will read and discuss Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State. Stranger Danger reveals the transformative power of media-fueled moral panics on American politics and culture, showing how ideas and images of endangered childhood helped build a more punitive America. Please share this…
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OU Carceral Studies Consortium Hosts Dr. Sabina Vaught and Coauthors – “The School-Prison Trust” Book Talk
The Carceral Studies Consortium is hosting a Zoom event on Wednesday, January 25th @ 4pm with Dr. Sabina Vaught, Dr. Bryan Brayboy, and Dr. Jeremiah Chin, authors of “The School-Prison Trust”: “The School–Prison Trust describes interrelated histories, ongoing ideologies, and contemporary expressions of what the authors call the “school–prison trust”: a conquest strategy encompassing the boarding school and juvenile prison…
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Collaborative Opportunity from the University of Notre Dame
Integrating Virtue Together is an opportunity for faculty from across institutions and disciplines to join a community of practice to integrate moral virtues into a course they will teach in the academic year 2023-2024. Through this initiative, we will work with faculty to build 2-3 virtues into a course syllabus, integrating experiences, reflections and frameworks…
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OU Carceral Studies Consortium Announces Fall 2022 Micro-Grant Recipients
The University of Oklahoma Carceral Studies Consortium is pleased to announce the Fall 2022 Micro-Grant recipients. The Carceral Studies Consortium brings together community members, faculty, staff, and students from across the University of Oklahoma and beyond to cultivate and support rigorous research, pedagogy, and community engagement toward social transformation. To accomplish this mission, the Consortium offers…
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OU Carceral Study Consortium Cohosts “Community-Engaged Work in the Carceral Space”
On November 30 at 12:00 pm the OU Center for Faculty Excellence and the Consortium are co-hosting a zoom event on Community-Engaged Work in the Carceral Space. We are looking for one consortium member to volunteer to present a 5-7 minute overview of their experiences with community-engaged work in the carceral space (advocacy, research, teaching…
