Michelle Brown

Michelle Brown is a criminologist and sociolegal scholar who specializes in the study of carcerality, abolition, visual/media culture, and community-based research. She is Co-Founder/Director of the Appalachian Justice Research Center; steering committee member for Justice Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Tennessee; and a member of Critical Resistance – Central Appalachia. Brown is an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation (Tahlequah, OK), and of English-Scottish descent with deep family lineages throughout Appalachia on both sides of her family.