Leanne Purdum

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Visiting Assistant Professor

Contact info

Email:
leannekp@uga.edu
Office:
Geography-Geology Building
Phone Number:
706-542-2721
Research Interests:

I study and teach about the criminalization of migration and the social construction of “illegality” that dominates current discourse and immigration policy. My goal is to use critical approaches to human rights, humanitarianism, and law to think through US immigration policies and the violence of detention and deportation. My dissertation research stems from volunteer work as a legal advocate in the South Texas Family Residential Center, a “family” detention center in Dilley, Texas. I consider the family detention center, and lawsuits over licensing them as “child-care facilities”, as a case study to contribute to broader discussions of rights, refugees, and migration, and to understand the spread of structures and procedures that perpetuate worldwide detention regimes.

Graduates on the Job Market:
Hired
Hired by:
Drake University - Law, Politics, and Society Department
Interests:

Detention and Deportation systems, Legal Advocacy, and Geographies of Law and Power

Education:

PhD

Dissertation/Thesis Title:
Humanitarianism and Violence in the South Texas Family Residential Center: An Analysis of Humanitarian Detention
Degree Completion Date:
Grants:

Lamar Dodd School of Art Interdisciplinary Fellow, 2019-20

UGA Franklin College-University of Liverpool Doctoral Student Short-Term International Research Fellowship, Spring 2019

UGA Willson Center Graduate Research Award, Summer 2018

Graduate Research Funding, Summer 2018, UGA Latin American Caribbean Studies Institute

Future Faculty Fellow, 2017-2018, UGA Graduate School and Center for Teaching and Learning.

Dean’s Award in support of graduate research 4/2017, UGA Graduate School

Law and Society Association Graduate Student Award, 6/2017

Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IIRG) 6/2016- 7/2016, UGA Graduate School

Tinker Graduate Research Travel Award 7/2014-8/2014 for Summer Research in Argentina

Tinker Graduate Research Travel Award 7/2012 - 8/2012 for Summer Research in Guatemala

Major Professor

Amy J. Ross

Professor
rossamy@uga.edu

Committee Members

Joshua Barkan

Associate Professor
jbarkan@uga.edu

Steve Holloway

Professor
holloway@uga.edu

Jennifer L. Rice

Professor of Geography
jlrice@uga.edu

Amy J. Ross

Professor
rossamy@uga.edu

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