Reuben Jonathan Miller, Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow, spent the fellowship year finishing Halfway Home, a book on what he calls the afterlife of mass incarceration. Drawing from over 15 years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated people, Halfway Home reveals what it is like to live in a “supervised society” where criminal justice policy has changed the nature of American democracy one poor black family at a time.
Miller is an assistant professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago where he is a faculty affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture and with the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights. In 2016 he was selected as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in the School of Social Science in Princeton, New Jersey.
