Please join us for a public lecture about a brilliant and provocative new book on mass incarceration.  Note: Professor Murakawa will also discuss her new research on police accountability

The CSI Legal Studies Institute Presents:

Studies in Race, Crime, and Public Policy

Naomi Murakawa

Associate Professor of African-American Studies

Princeton University

“The First Civil Right: 

How Liberals Built Prison America”

Wednesday, November 4^th

5:00 p.m.

Williamson Theatre

Center for the Performing Arts

Reception to Follow

Naomi Murakawa is an associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She studies the reproduction of racial inequality in 20th and 21st century American politics, with specialization in crime policy and the carceral state. She is the author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Oxford University Press, 2014).  Professor Murakawa received her B.A. in women’s studies from Columbia University, her M.Sc. in social policy from the London School of Economics, and her Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.  

Sponsored by the CSI Legal Studies Institute, The Campus Activities Board (with student activities fees),

 the CSI Student Government Association, and the Staten Island Foundation.  This is a CLUE certified event.