Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Virtual EventVesla Weaver is the Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research aims to better understand the causes and consequences of racial inequality in the United States, how state policies and institutions shape political life and identity, and especially the effects of increasing punishment and surveillance in America on democratic inclusion.
Weaver has served on the Harvard/NIJ Executive Session on Community Corrections, the Center for Community Change’s Good Jobs for All initiative, and the APSA Presidential Taskforce on Racial Inequality in the Americas. In 2017, she was an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She is currently working on a new book based on the Portals Policing Project.
This event is part of the Wayne Morse Center's Public Affairs Speaker Series.
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