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OU Carceral Studies Consortium Fall 2023 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 engagement projects…
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University of California Washington Programs to Host “Abolitions Conference”
The Abolitions Conference will be held at the University of California Washington Center in DC, from May 6 to 8, 2023. The abolitionist movement began with calls to abolish chattel slavery in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, philosophers called for the abolition of the wage system. In the twentieth century, abolitionists called for 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 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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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…
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OU Carceral Studies Consortium Hosts Dr. Bruce Western – “Criminalizing Poverty”
The Carceral Studies Consortium is hosting a zoom event on Thursday, September 15 @ 6 pm. Dr. Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University, will discuss the results of their random controlled trial of eliminating legal financial debt for people involved in the Oklahoma County court system. Our…
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OU Carceral Studies Consortium Members Receive Seed Funding from the Institute for Community and Society Transformation
The University of Oklahoma Carceral Studies Consortium is pleased to announce that David McLeod (Social Work), Dean Hougen (Computer Science), and Constance Chapple (Sociology) have received $30,000 in funding to develop their project. According to ICAST director Shane Connelly, projects that receive this funding are “poised to inform, guide and enact research and programs that…
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OU Carceral Studies Consortium Announces Incoming Director
The University of Oklahoma (OU) Carceral Studies Consortium is pleased to announce that Dr. Constance Chapple has accepted the role of faculty director of the Carceral Studies Consortium following an internal search. Dr. Chapple will serve as incoming director during the spring semester, and officially assume the position on July 1, 2022. Dr. Chapple is an associate professor of sociology…
