"From the War on Drugs to the War on Terror: Black Feminist Reflections on Prisons, Globalization and Militarism"

Professor Julia Sudbury recently returned to Mills after spending the 2002-03 academic year researching the relationship between globalization and imprisonment at the University of Arizona, on an academic fellowship hosted by the Race, Sex and Globalization project. Her research concentrates on the ways globalization has led to an increase in the use of imprisonment and on the growth of a transnational Prison Industrial Complex. She is author of Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women's Organizations and the Politics of Transformation, Routledge 1998, "Critical Resistance", in Mary Bosworth (ed) Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. Forthcoming, and "Women of Color, Globalization and the Politics of Incarceration", in Barbara Rattel Price and Natalie Sokoloff (eds.) The Criminal Justice System and Women, 2003, New York: McGraw Hill.