Dr. Brittany P. Battle is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department and Affiliate Faculty in the African American Studies Program at Wake Forest University. She is also a recent Ford Postdoctoral Fellow and Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellow with the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an ethnographer, her research interests include carceral logics, social and family policy, courts, abolition and social justice, and culture and cognition. She teaches cou