Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Joseph Spillane, CLAS Associate Dean for Student Affairs,

“Prisoners of the Archives: Privacy, Identity, and the History of Incarceration,” an article to be published in Rethinking History. 

With discussants:

Dr. Bonnie Ernst, a historian who is an assistant professor in Sociology and Criminology & Law, is an American historian of the prisoners’ rights movement and women in the age of mass incarceration with a focus on the Middle West (Michigan and Cook County).

Dr. Mara Keire, a US historian teaching at Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, and working on Under the Boardwalk: Rape and Popular Culture in New York, 1900-1929. She organized the Oxford conference for which the Spillane paper was written: “What’s in a Name?  Should be Anonymise Identities?”

This event is open to all. To participate and receive the required Zoom link and precirculated reading, contact Professor Nancy Hunt (nrhunt@ufl.edu).