Marie Gottschalk

Marie Gottschalk
Born December 17, 1958
Alma mater Cornell University
Princeton University
Yale University
Employer University of Pennsylvania

Marie Gottschalk (born December 17, 1958) is an American political scientist and professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, known for her work on mass incarceration in the United States.

Early life

Gottschalk was born on December 17, 1958. She received her B.A. in history from Cornell University, her M.P.A. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.

Career

Gottschalk worked in China as a university lecturer for two years, and as a journalist and editor. Before joining the University of Pennsylvania, she also worked as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and as a Fulbright Program Distinguished Lecturer in Japan. She served on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' National Task Force on Mass Incarceration and the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration.[1] She was featured in the Academy Award-nominated 2016 documentary 13th.[2]

Her 2014 book Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, was cited by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissenting opinion in Utah v. Strieff,[2] and won the 2016 Michael Harrington Book Award from the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association.[3] Her other books include The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which won the 2007 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Marie Gottschalk". University of Pennsylvania Political Science Department. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  2. 1 2 Imburgia, Stephen (2017-01-26). "This Penn professor was cited in a SCOTUS decision and featured in an Oscar-nominated film". Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  3. ↑ "Caught". Princeton University Press. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
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