IU Southeast Researchers

Jennifer Ortiz

Website:

https://go.iu.edu/2U55

(Criminology and Criminal Justice) – Ortiz's research centers on structural issues within the criminal justice system. Her current research project is a multi-year, mixed-methods study of reentry experiences in the Kentuckiana region. Her most recent publication "The System is Not Broken, it is Intentional: the Prisoner Reentry Industry as Deliberate Structural Violence," posits that prisoner reentry serves as a mechanism of social control designed to perpetuate the oppression of communities of color.

Jeremy Wells

Website:

https://go.iu.edu/2U54

(English) – Wells’ areas of expertise include slavery and plantations as they are represented in literature and culture, 19th-century American literature, 19th-century African American literature and William Faulkner.