Special Guest Hilary Coulson // Season 2, Bonus Episode
Join Jaime, Theresa, and special guest Hilary Coulson for this week’s episode of Swerve South! Hilary is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi and has a joint appointment with the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and the History Department. In this episode, Hilary shares her route to academia, her research on prisons, and new pathways and questions for scholars. In this conversation the hosts take pause to honor mentors and engage in discussion about the power of institutions, impacts on women, and the legacy of slavery.
Show Notes & Extras
Be sure to check out Hilary’s podcast, An Incomplete History, and read her article “Will She Hang? Women Sentenced to Death in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1800–1900.”
If you haven’t watched this piercing, Oscar-nominated film, start here:
Additional Reading and Links:
The Rise and Fall of Atlanta’s Skid Row, Charles Steffen
In Prison, Discipline Comes Down Hardest On Women, from All Things Considered
Can We Build a Better Women’s Prison?, Keri Blakinger
Women in Prison: A Curated Collection of Links, from The Marshall Project
19th Century Prison Reform Digital Collection, Cornell University
University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group
Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration Conference
Take a deeper look inside Mississippi’s troubled prison system and those pushing for reform:
Prison-to-College Pipeline Program
The Marshall Project: Mississippi
The Mississippi Freedom Letters Campaign Walnut Grove, from Criminal Podcast
Violence brews at Parchman: Lack of funding, not enough guards and decrepit conditions, Jerry Mitchell
After Inmate Deaths, Mississippi Faces Pressure To Reform Its Prisons, Debbie Elliot
Mississippi Prison System Faces Investigation, Debbie Elliott
How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor, Matthew Shaer