Sasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist and teaches at the UC Davis writing program. He is the author of The American Way of Poverty—listed by the New York Times as amongst the 100 Notable Books of 2013—Inside Obama’s Brain(2009), Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It (2009), American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment (2007), Conned (2006), and Hard Time Blues (2002). His writings have appeared in The Nation, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, New York Magazine, Salon, Slate, Huffington Post, The Village Voice, New Yorker online, and Rolling Stone. A graduate of Oxford University and the Columbia University School of Journalism, he was awarded an Open Society, Crime, and Communities Media Fellowship in 2000. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the New York City-based Demos think tank and a participant in the Voices of Poverty on-line narrative project.
Co-sponsored with the OSU Multicultural Center, Comparative Studies, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies. Organized by the Humanities Institute’s “Precarity and Social Contract Working Group.” Contact: Philip Armstrong (armstrong.202@osu.edu)
