Today, we are excited to feature the portrait of Stephanie Redden who works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
“I was born and raised in rural Nova Scotia. I came to Yale after finishing my PhD in Political Science and working as a policy analyst for the Canadian government working on mainstreaming gender issues.
At Yale I am the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition's 2019- 2020 Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Postdoctoral Fellow. I am examining the use of prisoners as call center labor in the United States. I am critically analyzing the gendered and radicalized aspects of this work.I also taught my dream course–Gender, Race, and the Everyday Politics of the Global Political Economy–in the spring semester. The students in the class are so impressive; it has really been a pleasure to teach!
With the library closures due to the pandemic I was unable to continue with my archival research and I had to translate my seminar course into an online course very quickly. While all the uncertainty has certainly been tough, especially given the limited time I have left at the university, I am just doing my best to stay positive and stay as productive as I can. To help deal with the stress, I have been taking lots of safe social distancing walks around New Haven, which has allowed me to see parts of the campus and town I had not explored before.”
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