Vesla Weaver Named Carnegie Fellow

Vesla Weaver, an ISPS Resident Faculty Fellow and founding director of the Center for the Study of Inequality at Yale, has received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for research in social science. 

Professor Weaver’s research explores racial inequality in the United States and ways to reform the criminal justice system. Her latest book (written with Amy Lerman), “Arresting Citizen:The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control,” addresses the problems of the “carceral state” and how it undermines the fundamental principles of democracy.

See Yale News article here.