Talk by Dr Heather Ann Thompson - title TBC

Thu 23 January 2020

Lucy Cavendish College

Heather Ann Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian at Cambridge this year as the Visiting Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions and she is also on faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is the author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy as well as Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City, and she writes regularly on the history of policing, mass incarceration and the current criminal justice system for myriad scholarly publications including the Journal of American History, The Journal of Urban History and Criminology and Public Policy and popular outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, The Atlantic, and Salon. Thompson has served on a National Academy of Sciences blue-ribbon panel that studied the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the United States and has given congressional staff briefings on this subject. She currently serves on the standing Committee on Law and Justice also in the National Academy of Sciences.

Cost: Free