Dr. Marie Gottschalk

Biography

Marie Gottschalk is the Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in American politics with a focus on criminal justice, health policy, race, and the development of the welfare state, as well as business-labor relations. Her latest book, 'Caught: Prison State Lockdown American Politics', published by Princeton University Press in 2014, addresses the intersection of mass incarceration and American political dynamics. Gottschalk is also the author of 'Prison Gallows: Politics Mass Incarceration America', published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press, which won the 2007 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. Her earlier works include 'The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States' (Cornell University Press, 2000). She has extensive teaching experience and has contributed to various academic discussions on mass incarceration as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences National Task Force. Additionally, she has served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration and participated in the Academy's report, 'Growth Incarceration United States: Exploring Causes Consequences', published in 2014. She holds a B.A. in history from Cornell University, an M.P.A. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.

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