Janis Parker

Janis is a Ph.D. student within the joint History-WGS program. She focuses on U.S. carcerality in the 20th century, specifically on how the entwined histories of capital punishment, psychiatry, and eugenics affected women and others vulnerable to a racialized and gendered criminal legal system. Her work draws on traditional history, carceral studies, feminist and queer theory, sociology, and legal scholarship.