Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Dr. Gilmore is a Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and American Studies, and the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean. Gilmore has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. In April 2019, Rachel Kushner profiled her in The New York Times Magazine. She is the co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network. Dr. Gilmore is author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press). She received the Association of American Geographers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 and most recently (along with Angela Y. Davis and Mike Davis), Dr. Gilmore was named winner of the 2020 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Cultural Freedom Prize.