Dr. Hannah L. Walker is an associate professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines the impact of the criminal justice system on American democracy with special attention to minority and immigrant communities. She is the award winning author of “Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation and Race” (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Dr. Walker’s writing has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and elsewhere. Her research on implementing rights restoration among people with felony convictions has received more than one million dollars in external funding — read more about this work at the Expanding Engagement Lab (founded with Ariel White and Allison Harris).
Previously, she served as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2023-2024), an assistant professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University (2017-2020), and a post doctoral fellow with the Prisons and Justice Initiative at Georgetown University (2016-2017). She received her PhD in 2016 from the University of Washington.
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