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  1. Ruth Wilson Gilmore (born April 2, 1950) is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

  2. Apr 17, 2019 · In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice. Ruth Wilson Gilmore Dana Scruggs for The New York...

  3. Mar 30, 2023 · Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and American Studies, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is also director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She grew up in New Haven, Connecticut.

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  5. May 4, 2021 · Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Earth and Environmental Sciences), director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center, has won the 2017 Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award from the American Studies Association's Minority Scholars' Committee.

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  6. Feb 7, 2023 · For more than 30 years, Ruth Wilson Gilmore has created scholarship on an idea once considered radical: that society can and should abolish prisons and policing.

  7. Jun 10, 2020 · Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center, is co-founder of several abolitionist organizations...

  8. Apr 3, 2023 · The prison abolitionist and scholar discusses community policing, the failure of Anglo-American geography, and the notion of freedom as a place. “Where life is precious, life is precious,” says Ruth Wilson Gilmore, the 72-year-old prison abolitionist who has become one of the movement’s most important thinkers and organizers.

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