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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: A Conversation with the Director of the Emerson Prison Initiative
Description: Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:The Emerson College Prison InitiativeThe Bard Prison InitiativeHow students apply to, enroll in, and attend college while in prisonChallenges faced by incarcerated studentsEngaging effectively with incarcerated studentsOur 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 se...