Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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American academic
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Ruth Wilson Gilmoreearth-sciences Degrees
Earth Sciences
#678
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#1095
Historical Rank
#253
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Geography
#140
World Rank
#240
Historical Rank
#37
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Degrees
- PhD American Studies University of California, Santa Cruz
- Masters American Studies University of California, Santa Cruz
- Bachelors American Studies University of California, Santa Cruz
Why Is Ruth Wilson Gilmore Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has been credited with "more or less single-handedly" inventing carceral geography, the "study of the interrelationships across space, institutions and political economy that shape and define modern incarceration". She received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers.
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