Participant Info
- First Name
- Amanda
- Last Name
- Hughett
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY New York
- ahughett@buffalo.edu
- Affiliation
- Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, SUNY-Buffalo
- Website URL
- www.amandahughett.com
- Keywords
- legal history, prisons, law, North Carolina, social movements
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I’m a postdoctoral fellow at SUNY-Buffalo’s Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. Before arriving in Buffalo, I spent two years at the American Bar Foundation as a Law and Social Sciences Doctoral Fellow. I received my PhD in History from Duke University in 2017.
I’m an interdisciplinary scholar whose research and teaching focus on law, social movements, and the criminal justice system in the United States. Currently, I’m at work on my first book, Silencing the Cell Block: The Making of Modern Prison Policy in North Carolina and the Nation, which examines how civil liberties lawyers and public officials reshaped prison policy in response to prisoners’ activism during the 1960s and 1970s. In 2018, my dissertation won the Law & Society Association’s Dissertation Prize, which is awarded to the dissertation that best represents outstanding work in law and society research.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @abhughett
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Law, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution
