Marie Gottschalk is a professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in American politics, with a focus on criminal justice, health policy, race, the development of the welfare state, and business-labor relations.
She is the author of Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics (Princeton University Press, 2014), as well as The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which won the 2007 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States (Cornell University Press, 2000).
Professor Gottschalk’s work has appeared in Dissent, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Law & Social Inquiry, Criminology & Public Policy, and numerous other venues both popular and scholarly.
She was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York and was named a Distinguished Lecturer in Japan by the Fulbright Program. She served on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences National Task Force on Mass Incarceration and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration. She is a contributor to the Academy’s final report, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences (National Academies Press, 2014).
Gottschalk holds a B.A. in history from Cornell University, an M.P.A. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.