Advancing excellence through faculty diversity

Susila Gurusami

Education:

B.A., Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Dissertation:

Deprivation and Depravation: Moral Policing of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women

Thesis Advisor:

Vilma Ortiz, Professor of Sociology, and Abigail Saguy, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic:

“I Came Back to Life”: Race, Gender, and Necropolitical Transformations in the Carceral State

Mentor:

Ellen Reese, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Riverside

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto

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