GWSS Alumni - Associate Professor, Department of English, Cal Poly Humboldt Fields of Interest Mass Imprisonment Neoliberal Political Rationalities Prisoner Re-Entry Race Biography Ph.D., University of Washington, 2013 Dissertation: 'Punishment's twin': theorizing prisoner reentry for a politics of abolition. Research Selected Research Byrd, ReneĢe M (2013). 'Punishment's Twin': Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of AbolitionĀ (Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database. (UMI No. 3599675) Resources & Related Links Department of Sociology