Understanding Immigrant Incarceration: Past to Present

Join us for a conversation with Brianna Nofil, historian of the modern United States and author of The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration (2024, Princeton University Press). Nofil’s award-winning book traces how the entwined histories of immigration policy, local law enforcement, and incarceration shaped today’s immigration detention system. This event provides a unique opportunity to engage directly with an award-winning author and Duke alumna, as she discusses her book, and the journey from writing a college thesis to publishing this groundbreaking work.

Brianna Nofil is Assistant Professor of History at William & Mary.  She majored in History at Duke University, graduating in 2012, and received her PhD in History from Columbia University in 2020.

This event will be catered by Ginger+Soy.