Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is professor of Geography in the Earth and Environmental Sciences program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she also serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Her research and interests are about but not limited to the African Diaspora, The Movement of Capital and Labor, Structural Adjustment and New Alignments, Revolution and Reform, Race, Space and Place. Prior to the Graduate Center, Gilmore was at the University of Southern California. Gilmore’s work includes Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007), which was recognized with the Lora Romero First Book Award by the American Studies Association. Gilmore is also the cofounder of Critical Resistance, California Prison Moratorium, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network. In addition to these accomplishments Gilmore has received the Angela Davis Award for Public Scholarship.