Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore | |
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Gilmore in 2012 | |
| Born | April 2, 1950 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar, Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Rutgers University, New Brunswick (PhD) |
| Thesis | From Military Keynesianism to Post-Keynesian Militarism: Finance Capital, Land, Labor, and Opposition in the Rising California Prison State (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Neil Smith |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Geographer |
| Institutions | CUNY Graduate Center, University of Southern California |
| Main interests | Prison-industrial complex, Race |
Ruth Wilson Gilmore (born April 2, 1950) is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has been credited with "more or less single-handedly" inventing carceral geography, the "study of the interrelationships across space, institutions and political economy that shape and define modern incarceration". She received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers.