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Keesha Middlemass, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) where she teaches courses in American Politics and Public Policy. Her research focuses on race, prisoner reentry, institutions, food insecurity, and public policy. Her scholarship is published in The Prison Journal, International Journal of Eating Disorders, Aggressive Behavior, Punishment & Society, Criminal Justice & Behavior and Social Science Quarterly. Her co-edited book, with the late Professor Manning Marable, Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives, explores the systemic crisis of mass imprisonment and mass disfranchisement. Middlemass is a member of the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network (RDCJN) , a former Andrew Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow on Race, Crime and Justice at the Vera Institute of Justice, and a former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. She holds a Ph.D. from The School of Public & International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
