Elsa Julien Lora

Elsa Julien Lora is a PhD candidate in the Department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in History. Her dissertation, Life in Prison: An Intimate History of American Punishment, untangles the relationship between punishment and intimate life in the modern American prison. More broadly, her research interests include carceral history, micro- and family history, and legal history. Elsa holds a JD from Yale Law School, where she was a student in the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic, and a BA from Wesleyan University. Her published writing can be found in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Synapsis, Public Books, and Aperture. Along with Professor Elizabeth Hinton, she co-edited Harm and Punishment: Incarcerated Writers on Violence and the U.S. Prison, forthcoming from Haymarket Press.