Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963-
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- Blood in the water, 2016:eCIP (Heather Ann Thompson) data view screen (teaches history at the University of Michigan; has written numerous popular as well as scholarly articles on the history of mass incarceration as well as its current impact, including pieces for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, Dissent, New Labor Forum, and The Huffington Post; recently served on a National Academy of Sciences blue-ribbon panel that studied the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the United States; the author of Whose Detroit: Politics, Labor and Race in a Modern American City and editor of Speaking Out: Protest and Activism in the 1960s and 1970s; has consulted on several documentary films, including Criminal Injustice at Attica; regularly speaks to radio and print journalists about issues related to policing, civil rights, urban crisis, and prisons)
- Info. from Princeton University Archives, 9-22-95(Thompson, Heather Ann, b. 8-17-63)
- The politics of labor, race, and liberalism in the auto plants and the Motor City, 1995:t.p. (Heather Ann Thompson)
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Heather Ann Thompson is an American historian, author, activist, and professor from Detroit, Michigan. Thompson won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2016 Bancroft Prize, and five other awards for her work Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. This book was also a finalist for the Cundill Prize in History as well as the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award. She is the recipient of several social justice awards as well, including the Life-Long Dedication to Social Justice Award, and the Alliance of Families for Justice and the Regents Distinguished Award for Public Service. She was awarded the Pitt Professorship of American History and Diplomacy in 2019-2020 (University of Cambridge, UK) and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022. Thompson was also named a distinguished lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.
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