Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii
I am a professor of sociology and an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in penal history. My central research focus is understanding how prisons became institutionalized in the American penal landscape. My first book was The Deviant Prison (Cambridge University Press), a history of the distinctive Philadelphia prison, Eastern State Penitentiary (1829-1913).
Experience
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2021–presentAssociate Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii, Manoa
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2019–2021Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii, Manoa
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2016–2019Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Education
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2013University of California, Berkeley , PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Publications
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2021The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913, Cambridge University Press
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2021Rocking Qualitative Social Science: An Irreverent Guide to Rigorous Research, Stanford University Press
Professional Memberships
- Law and Society Association
- American Society of Criminology
- American Sociological Association
- American Society for Legal History
- Honolulu, HI
- Website
- @ashleytrubin
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
