Biography
Marie Gottschalk is an American political scientist and professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. She specialises in research on mass incarceration, the carceral state, and its intersections with race and economic inequality in the United States.
She holds a BA from Cornell University, an MPA from Princeton University, and MA and PhD degrees from Yale University. Prior to her current role, she worked as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and as a Fulbright Program Distinguished Lecturer in Japan. She has served on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' National Task Force on Mass Incarceration and the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration.
Gottschalk is the author of The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (2006) and Caught: the Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics (2016). She appeared as herself in the 2016 documentary 13th, directed by Ava DuVernay.
