GWSS Alumni '13 - 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, R. M. (2013). ’Punishment’s twin’ : theorizing prisoner reentry for a politics of abolition. University of Washington Libraries. Resources & Related Links Department of Sociology