Political Science Professor's Study of Incarceration Wins Book Prize
February 2007
Marie Gottschalk, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, has been awarded the 2007 Ellis Hawley prize for her book, The Prison and the Gallows: the Politics of Mass Incarceration in America. This book explores the four main movements that helped to motivate the upsurge of incarceration in the United States within the last three decades. Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, of Cornell University, has said "This is an exquisitely written book and one which meets the highest standards of academic scholarship." The book is published by Cambridge University Press.
The Ellis Hawley Prize is given by the Organization of American Historians. It is awarded annually for the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics or institutions in the United States. The prize, which is given in honor of Ellis W. Hawley, an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Iowa, has been in existence since 1997.