Archive for July 2020

Elizabeth Hinton is a historian of American inequality and is considered one of the nation’s leading experts on policing and mass incarceration. She earned her B.A. from New York University and her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is a professor of history, African American Studies, and law at Yale. Hinton’s articles and op-eds can be…

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as many other honors. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in…

Eli Simon is an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, where he studies Sociology and Digital Product Design. He enjoys playing basketball and watching re-runs of HBO’s The Wire.