Brittany Friedman
Brittany Friedman | |
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| Born | 1989 |
| Nationality (legal) | American |
| Education | Ph.D. Northwestern University |
| Occupation(s) | Sociologist Assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California |
| Known for | sociology of punishment, social control, cover-ups & politics |
| Notable work | Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons |
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| Website | www |
Brittany Michelle Friedman is an American sociologist. Her research intersects at the sociology of law, sociology of race, political sociology, economic sociology, and criminal justice. Friedman is most known for her research on social control and cover-ups, the Black Guerilla Family and black power movement behind bars, and the financialization of the criminal legal system as seen with pay to stay. She is a frequent commentator on public media outlets on topics related to institutional misconduct, cover-ups, prison reform, and racism.[1][2][3] [4][5] Her most notable project is a forthcoming book titled Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons.
Friedman's research has been supported by a variety of funding sources, such as the National Science Foundation, the American Society of Criminology, and the American Bar Foundation.[6][7][8][9]
Friedman completed her bachelor of arts in history at Vanderbilt University, her master of arts in Latin American studies at Columbia University, and her PhD in sociology at Northwestern University under the direction of sociologist John Hagan.[10]
Early Life and education[edit]
Friedman née Jenkins was born outside of Columbus, Ohio to African American parents from small rural towns in the Missouri Bootheel. Much of her family came to Missouri by way of the Deep South, namely Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, among other states. She also has family that migrated from the Deep South to West Coast states such as California and Oregon. Friedman's maternal grandmother was born in 1914 and a sharecropper who participated in the Missouri Sharecroppers Protest of 1939 organized by the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union.[11] She grew up in Jefferson City Missouri and as a child was considered a gifted musician and poet, known for spending most of her time at school in the library. Her youth was heavily influenced by Black writers, musicians, and athletes, who inspired her to passionately pursue her dreams. She submitted her first poem for publication as an elementary school student. Friedman is an alumna of Jefferson City High School and as a senior was one of two African American young women elected to the 2007 homecoming court in a town known for its contentious racial politics.
Friedman left Jefferson City to enroll at Vanderbilt University on an engineering scholarship, but quickly changed her major to history beginning in her sophomore year. Majoring in history profoundly shaped Friedman's intellectual outlook, with Ida B. Wells becoming one of her intellectual heroines.[12] Her experiences studying and researching abroad in Austrailia and Brazil also deeply impacted her understanding of settler colonialism and the Black diaspora. Before completing her master's degree and doctorate in sociology at Northwestern University, she earned a master's degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Columbia University in 2013. Friedman was particularly shaped by the mentorship of John Hagan, Mary Pattillo, and Aldon Morris, and the Northwestern tradition of DuBoisian sociology.
Career[edit]
Friedman is currently appointed as Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California and faculty affiliate of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the Equity Research Institute.[13] She is a film producer and co-founder of the Captive Money Lab.[14][15]
She began her career as a tenure-track faculty member at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[16]
Friedman is featured in the upcoming political documentary Untruth: The War for Democracy.[17]
Awards and honors (selected)[edit]
- DDRI, National Science Foundation, 2017[6]
- Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship, American Society of Criminology, 2014[7]
- Access to Justice Faculty Scholar, American Bar Foundation, 2021[9]
- American Fellow, American Association of University Women, 2023[18]
References[edit]
- ^ "Black Radical Prisoner Organizing Didn't Die With George Jackson". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
- ^ Harris, Alexes (2021-04-15). "Daunte Wright and the grim financial incentive behind traffic stops". Vox. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ "New York Ends a Punishment That Traps People in Poverty". The Appeal Political Report. 5 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ "Constructing a threat: On prison repression of Black politics". This Is Hell!. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
- ^ "Perspective | Forcing people to pay for being locked up remains common". Washington Post. 2022-05-01. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ a b "NSF Award Search: Award#1703056 - Doctoral Dissertation Research: Organizational Emergence in the Era of Racial Risk: The Black Guerilla Family and the Aryan Brotherhood in California". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
- ^ a b "Award Winners". www.asc41.com. Archived from the original on 2019-11-16. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
- ^ Heimer, Karen (July–August 2014). "2014 ASC Award Winners" (PDF). The Criminologist. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
- ^ a b "2021-22 Access to Justice Scholars - American Bar Foundation". www.americanbarfoundation.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ "Faculty Profile > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences". dornsife.usc.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ Friedman, Brittany (2024-12-10). Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-1-4696-8306-5.
- ^ Friedman, Brittany (2024-12-10). Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-1-4696-8306-5.
- ^ "Brittany Friedman". Price Center for Social Innovation. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ "Decoded FIlm Studios". decodedstorylab.com. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ Hyperobjekt. "Captive Money Lab". Captive Money Lab. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ "Brittany Friedman | Rutgers Speakers Bureau". speakersbureau.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- ^ Partland, Dan, #Untruth: The War for Democracy (Documentary), Michael Steele, George Conway, Anthony Scaramucci, Bronson Park, retrieved 2024-05-25
- ^ Gabe, Sandra (2023-09-26). "AAUW 2023 Fund Fellows and Grant Recipients". AAUW California. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- Living people
- Race and crime in the United States
- Vanderbilt University alumni
- Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Northwestern University alumni
- American sociologists
- American women sociologists
- University of Southern California faculty
- American criminologists
- Jefferson City High School alumni