- Ph.D., New York University, 2001
Micol Seigel
Professor, American Studies
Professor, American Studies
Policing, prisons, and race in the Americas; Critical Ethnic Studies; racial theory; transnational method; popular culture; Brazil; Latin American studies; history; mass incarceration; the Cold War; postcolonial and queer theory; Cultural Studies. Micol is on sabbatical 2013-2014 and will be in Australia during the spring at the U.S. Studies Centre of the University of Sydney. In addition to research and teaching, Micol is involved in the Critical Prison Studies caucus of the American Studies Association and the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas. She occasionally performs around town with Voces Novae and can sometimes be found in the water here.