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Sarah Haley is an associate professor in the Department of History at Columbia University specializing in various facets of history including gender, women, carceral history, and Black feminist theory. She is the author of the book 'Mercy: Gender, Punishment, Making Jim Crow Modernity,' published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2016, which examines the intersections of gender and punishment within the historical context of Jim Crow. Her academic contributions have been recognized with several awards from the Association of Black Women Historians, the American Historical Association, and the National Women’s Studies Association. Additionally, her writings have appeared in prominent journals such as 'Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society' and 'Journal of African American History.' Professor Haley has also co-edited a special issue of 'Souls: Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society.' Currently, she is working on a book titled 'Carceral Interior: A Black Feminist Study of American Punishment, 1966-2016.' Before her tenure at Columbia, she worked as a paralegal and organized with a hospitality workers' union, and she was the founding director of the Black Feminism Initiative at UCLA.
Department of Anthropology (GSAS)