Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Professor of Geography in the Doctoral Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Graduate Center, CUNY) is currently president of the American Studies Association (ASA). She is the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2007), which was recognized by ASA with its Lora Romero First Book Award.