1. Jennifer L. Hochschild, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1996, is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. She is author of The American Dream and the Public Schools (with Nathan Scovronick, 2003) and Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (1995). Her current book project, coauthored with Vesla Weaver and Traci Burch, is tentatively titled “Transforming...
2. Vesla M. Weaver is an Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. She has published articles in American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, Political Behavior, Studies in American Political Development, and Social Forces. Her first book, Frontlash: Civil Rights, the Carceral State, and the Transformation of American Politics, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Her current book project is “Political Consequences of the Carceral State” (with Amy Lerman).
3. Traci Burch is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Her publications have appeared in Political Behavior, Law and Society Review, and the Du Bois Review. Currently, she is completing a book manuscript, “Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy.”