https://www.micahgracekhater.com/about daily 0.75 2024-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f246e0fca4376412d339186/aaf55412-4f7f-4767-8828-682ec64f4af7/Micah41.jpg About Micah Khater is an assistant professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work traces how Black women experienced, theorized, and resisted biopolitical and carceral regimes in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. She is currently at work on her first book, tentatively titled Vanishing Points: Black Women, Carceral Margins, and Genealogies of Escape, which excavates the significance of post-bellum fugitivity as a window into the geographies of the evolving carceral state. Her scholarship has appeared in Southern Cultures and Disability Studies Quarterly. Khater earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in African American Studies and History. In 2022, she was awarded the Prize Teaching Fellowship from Yale University for excellence in undergraduate education. Her research has been supported by the the Hellman Fellows; the Townsend Center for the Humanities; the Center for Engaged Scholarship; the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South; the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; and the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Her teaching interests include: 19th and 20th-century African American History; Black Feminist Studies; Carceral Studies; Disability Studies; Abolition Studies and Racial Formation in Arabic-Speaking Communities Khater’s poetry and prose can be found in Sukoon and Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art. Photograph by Amira Maxwell https://www.micahgracekhater.com/work daily 1.0 2024-09-10 https://www.micahgracekhater.com/work/scholarship monthly 0.5 2020-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f246e0fca4376412d339186/1596227065341-NM2NUXMDCGBK2OW1CL35/Wetumpka.jpg Work - Scholarship Image caption: An architectural drawing of Wetumpka State Penitentiary, includes labeled rooms, roadways, and water lines. Courtesy of Alabama Department of Archives and History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f246e0fca4376412d339186/1acb9847-05cc-43fd-8656-1bc7b2b30453/Picture1.jpg Work - Scholarship - Make it stand out A proposed map of Jefferson County's carceral camps (c. 1930s). Thick lines cut across the map with lighter blue lines indicating roads. An arterial river sits at the edge on the left side. Dotted lines connect the different carceral camps that are unified through towers. Courtesy of Alabama Department of Archives and History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f246e0fca4376412d339186/1ce8fd64-05bf-4503-acce-5c2440450055/Southern+Cultures+Cover.jpg Work - Scholarship - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f246e0fca4376412d339186/1617632804593-ZH8XRW5OB635FUD4E1SA/Elmore+County+Museum_1_Website+photo.jpg Work - Scholarship Image caption: A photograph taken on April 8, 1938 of Wetumpka State Penitentiary. Photographer unknown. Toward the back of the photograph are the 20-foot high walls connected to a two-story building. Wires and fences run around the perimeter of the prison. A large tree is on the right-hand side of the photograph. High levels of water—possibly from flooding—partially submerge wooden railing and small trees. The water runs, like a lake, right up to the foot of the building and the walls. Photograph courtesy of Elmore County Historical Society and Museum. https://www.micahgracekhater.com/work/creativework monthly 0.5 2020-10-21