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Max Mishler received his PhD from New York University in 2016, specializing in transnational history with a focus on the United States. His research centers on issues of slavery, abolition, incarceration, and the history of capitalism. His current book manuscript, entitled 'Civil Slavery: Punishment, Abolition, Origins of Mass Incarceration,' explores the intertwined histories of slave emancipation and penal servitude in the Atlantic world. His research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is broadly interested in public humanities, particularly in developing educational programs for currently and formerly incarcerated individuals.
Department of Sociology