A Conversation with the Director of the Emerson Prison Initiative
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you\u2019ll hear about:\n\nThe Emerson College Prison Initiative\n\nThe Bard Prison Initiative\n\nHow students apply to, enroll in, and attend college while in prison\n\nChallenges faced by incarcerated students\n\nEngaging effectively with incarcerated students\n\n\nOur guest is: Dr. Mneesha Gellman, an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College, in Boston, MA, USA. her primary research interests include comparative democratization, cultural resilience, memory politics, and social movements in the Global South and the United States. She is the founder and Director of the Emerson Prison Initiative, which seeks to bring high quality liberal arts education to incarcerated students at Massachusetts Correctional Institute (MCI) at Concord, a men\u2019s medium security prison. EPI follows the model of college-in-prison work led by the Bard Prison Initiative. Prior to joining the faculty at Emerson College, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg, Germany. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University, USA, and an MA in International Studies/Peace and Conflict Resolution from the University of Queensland, Australia.\nOur host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender, and the co-founder of the Academic Life on NBN. She is the daughter of a public defender.\nListeners to this episode might also be interested in:\n\n\nEducation Behind the Wall: Why and How We Teach in Prison\xa0[Brandeis University Press, 2022], by Mneesha\n\nThe Alliance for Higher Education in Prison\n\nThe Prison Policy Initiative\n\nThis report from the ACLU\n\nThe Sentencing Project\n\nEqual Justice Initiative\n\nThe Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI)\xa0Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI)\n\n\nThe Bard Prison Initiative\xa0Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison\n\n\n\nDemocratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic Minority Social Movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador\xa0by Dr. Mneesha Gellman\n\n\nThe Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the\xa0Classroom\xa0by Stephen Brookfield\n\nYou are smart and capable, but you aren\u2019t an island and neither are we. We reach across our network to bring you experts about everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we\u2019d bring on an expert about something? DM us on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law