Participant Info
- First Name
- Emily
- Last Name
- Norweg
- Country
- United States
- State
- DC District of Columbia
- elb63@georgetown.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Pennsylvania
- Website URL
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilynorweg/
- Keywords
- Modern US History, Higher in Education in Prison, Mass Incarceration, Carceral State, Civil Rights, 20th Century US History, US History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- enorweg@sas.upenn.edu
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of the US with particular interest and expertise in the history of higher education in prison and mass incarceration. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, I hold a PhD in history from Georgetown University and an MEd from Boston College.
Outside of my own research, I have worked on projects for Ithaka S+R, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and Dr. Marcia Chatelain, including her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright/Norton, 2020).
Prior to beginning my doctoral work, I taught US history at a public high school in Massachusetts. In my experience as an educator, I have also had the privilege of teaching and learning with both traditional and incarcerated college students.
- Recent Publications
Emily Norweg, “Mass(achusetts) Incarceration and Higher Education: The Deep Origins and Contested History of College Behind Bars in The Bay State,” PhD diss., Georgetown University, 2023, https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/1082578.
Emily Norweg, “Higher Education in Prison: A Retrospective,” Ithaka S+R, 2021, https://higheredinprisonresearch.org/paper/higher-education-in-prison-a-retrospective/.
Meagan Wilson, Rayane Alamuddin, Julia Karon, Michael Fried, Emily Norweg, “Facilitating a Higher Education in Prison Research Infrastructure,” Ithaka S+R, 2021, https://higheredinprisonresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Facilitating_a_Higher_Education_in_Prison_Research_-Infrastructure_June_2021.pdf.
- Media Coverage
- PBS/Nova, Alexis Coe's Study Marry Kill, The Hoya
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Higher Ed, Politics, Public History, Race, Sexuality, Women
