Marie Gottschalk

Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Research Interests

social policy; criminal justice policy; race; and health care

Affiliation

Political Science

Bio

Marie Gottschalk specializes in American politics, with a focus on criminal justice, health policy, race, the development of the welfare state, and business-labor relations. Her latest book is Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics (Princeton University Press, 2014). She is also the author of The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States (Cornell University Press, 2000).