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Our lab investigates structures and relations of inequality that impact health, and with the knowledge we gain, seeks to promote health equity through social justice. We are a multi-disciplinary research team bringing together theoretical, conceptual, and methodological expertise from the social sciences, humanities, and public health. See our Get Involved section below to join our email list, reading group, or other collaborations.

Much of this work includes particular attention to mass incarceration as a fundamental structure that reflects and reproduces social inequities generally and inequities in health in particular. We understand mass incarceration as it is broadly experienced: by individuals who are or have been incarcerated or under community supervision, as well as their families and loved ones; by whole communities under heavy police surveillance; and by a nation in which the overall impulse to respond to social problems is all too often a punitive one.

We consider how mass incarceration intersects with other critical aspects of life, such as housing, employment, family, and relationships, to impact health. We ask both who is harmed by and who benefits from these intersecting impacts and in turn, how do these harms and benefits vary in relation to intersecting structures and relations of race, gender, and class inequality. We also demonstrate efforts to resist and challenge these structures and processes as well as聽opportunities for developing social justice-based interventions that promote health equity.