Alex Pearl is a Ph.D. student in American Studies and Graduate Research Fellow at the Center for Regional Studies at the University of New Mexico on unceded and occupied Tewa territory. He holds a B.A. in Film & Media from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Alex's intellectual interests emerged from his experiences of working with incarcerated students in state prisons over the last 10 years. His dissertation research centers legal activist Dwight Duran and the eponymously named Duran Consent Decree in the long history of racialized punishment and labor in what is now called “New Mexico.” At UNM, he teaches courses on prisons, schools, radical study, and theories/methods in interdisciplinary fields of inquiry, incorporating food and nourishment as engaged pedagogy.

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apearl00@unm.edu