Prison Labor Book Acknowledgment.pdf

I would like to thank Mary Katzenstein at Cornell University for introducing me to the concept of prison labor during my John S. McKnight Postdoctoral Fellowship. The idea developed further at a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at Amherst College in 2002, led by Austin Sarat. Jim Reische at the University of Michigan Press encouraged me to write plainly and supported me throughout the writing process. I also appreciate the contributions of the other participants in the punishment seminar, including Valerie Karno, Robert Gordon, Karl Shoemaker, Ted Sasoon, Alysa Rosenthal, Bill Lyons, and Christopher Sturr. I thank Law, Politics, and Society for permission to reprint "Hitched to the Post" and the reviewers who helped me develop that argument. I am grateful to John Zarobell, Kevin Bundy, Carl Cheeseman, Marie Gottschalk, Nancy Hirschmann, Betsy and Richard McBride, and the anonymous reviewers for their feedback and support. I also thank Marie Gottschalk and Bruce Western for sharing their manuscripts, and Ruth Ost for allowing me to teach a seminar on punishment. My reading group, including Jeremy Elkins, Steve Salkever, and Christina Beltran, helped me tackle sovereignty, and Roger Berkowitz provided a timely intervention. Andrew Norris assisted my thinking on political order, and Rogers Smith provided structural support at the University of Pennsylvania. I appreciate the personal encouragement from my friends and neighbors, including Katy, David, Michael, Karen, Steve, Sheila, David, Christine, Meg, Ken, Jane, David, Ben, Carola, Sandra, Gerry, Anne, Casey, Andrea, Mamatha, and Marvin. My children, Celeste and Theo, also asked insightful questions about punishment, and my partner, John, provided a balance of interest and encouragement.