Micol Seigel

Micol Seigel is Professor of American Studies and History at Indiana University, Bloomington.  In 2018-2019, she was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in International Relations at the University of São Paulo and in 2017-2018, a fellow at the Harvard University Charles Warren Center for Historical Studies.  Micol is the author of Violence Work:  State Power and the Limits of Police (Duke University Press, 2018) and Uneven Encounters:  Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States (Duke, 2009; finalist mention for the Lora Romero first book prize of the American Studies Association) and editor of three collected volumes.  Shorter work has appeared in American Quarterly, Social Text, Transition, Social Justice, the Journal of American History, Hispanic American Historical Review, and elsewhere.  Micol’s research has been supported by FLAS, Fulbright, the ACLS, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Cornell Society for the Humanities, the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, and other entities.  Micol is a founding organizer of the Critical Prison Studies caucus of the American Studies Association, a longtime member of Critical Resistance, a founding member of Decarcerate Monroe County, and an Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program instructor.  She is currently working to chart human experience and the flows of finance through the family policing system while organizing to prevent jail expansion.