Postdoctoral fellow and Assistant Professor in Architecture Bryan Norwood examines how restored plantations, petrochemical factories, and prison labor all reinforce the continuing history of racial capitalism along the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. Read the full article at Places Journal.
Category: Alumni Junior Fellows
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Can Abolition Work in an Age of Right-Wing Extremism?
Postdoctoral fellows Neil Gong (Assistant Professor, Sociology) and Heath Pearson (Professor, Afroamerican and African Studies) collaborate to answer the question ‘Can Abolition Work in an Age of Right-Wing Extremism?’
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Faculty Spotlight: Research Scholar Joins Fight Club to Research ‘No Rules’ Subculture
The University Record spotlights the graduate research work of Neil Gong, fellow (2019-21) and assistant professor of sociology. During his graduate studies at UCLA, Neil participated in a “no rules fight club” and began studying the fight subculture. “My initial question was, why are people participating in this strange subculture? But what I ended up focusing on more in that paper is how they do it. How do you actually run a ‘no rules’ fight club? Supposedly you are creating the most realistic street fighting-type scenario as possible and yet no one is dying. … And so, in order to understand that and the informal rules of the club, I had to actually join.” Read the whole feature on The Record.