Andrea Morrell
@andreamorrell.bsky.social
Anthropologist, Mom, abolition, community college teaching.
Author of Prison Town: Making the Carceral State in Elmira NY, Univ of Nebraska Press, 2025
Author of Prison Town: Making the Carceral State in Elmira NY, Univ of Nebraska Press, 2025
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Andrea Morrell
@andreamorrell.bsky.social
· Nov 25
My book is out now with University of Nebraska Press!
Is your class reading my book, or chapters of it? Invite me to class!
Is your class reading my book, or chapters of it? Invite me to class!
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
My book is out now with University of Nebraska Press!
Is your class reading my book, or chapters of it? Invite me to class!
Is your class reading my book, or chapters of it? Invite me to class!
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My book is out now with University of Nebraska Press!
Is your class reading my book, or chapters of it? Invite me to class!
Is your class reading my book, or chapters of it? Invite me to class!
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🚨NEW REPORT: The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than almost any other country in the world
So much for the “land of the free” 🧵
So much for the “land of the free” 🧵
September 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨NEW REPORT: The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than almost any other country in the world
So much for the “land of the free” 🧵
So much for the “land of the free” 🧵
I was there, heard the booing, did some booing myself. It was a beautiful moment.
Chuck Schumer got booed at the Met last night. On the Upper West Side at a gala season opener performance.
Give us more fighting democratic socialists.
Give us more fighting democratic socialists.
To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
September 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I was there, heard the booing, did some booing myself. It was a beautiful moment.
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Excerpt: PRISON TOWN by @andreamorrell.bsky.social
PRISON TOWN shows that despite the barriers aimed at separating incarcerated and free residents of Elmira, NY, the town’s two prisons extended beyond their walls, intricately connecting the two populations.
PRISON TOWN shows that despite the barriers aimed at separating incarcerated and free residents of Elmira, NY, the town’s two prisons extended beyond their walls, intricately connecting the two populations.
Excerpt: Prison Town
Andrea R. Morrell is an associate professor of anthropology at Guttman Community College, City University of New York. Her book Prison Town: Making the Carceral State in Elmira, New York (Nebraska, 2025) was published last month. In Prison Town Andrea R. Morrell illustrates the converging and shifting fault lines of race and class through a portrait of a prison town undergoing deindustrialization as it chooses the path of prison expansion.
unpblog.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Excerpt: PRISON TOWN by @andreamorrell.bsky.social
PRISON TOWN shows that despite the barriers aimed at separating incarcerated and free residents of Elmira, NY, the town’s two prisons extended beyond their walls, intricately connecting the two populations.
PRISON TOWN shows that despite the barriers aimed at separating incarcerated and free residents of Elmira, NY, the town’s two prisons extended beyond their walls, intricately connecting the two populations.
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this just arrived & looks incredible::
July 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
this just arrived & looks incredible::
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We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government.
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
Columbia Disciplines Students Who Occupied Campus Building Last Year
Sanctions for the Hamilton Hall occupation include expulsions and suspensions.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government.
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
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Protesters from Jewish Voice For Peace occupy Trump Tower to protest the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil. (via @btnewsroom.bsky.social)
March 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Protesters from Jewish Voice For Peace occupy Trump Tower to protest the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil. (via @btnewsroom.bsky.social)
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The only scientific research fascists want pursued is work they control, that serves their interests, and reinforces their narratives. Everything else, they seek to destroy. Knowledge that doesn't serve them is a threat, just as the truth is a threat.
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
March 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The only scientific research fascists want pursued is work they control, that serves their interests, and reinforces their narratives. Everything else, they seek to destroy. Knowledge that doesn't serve them is a threat, just as the truth is a threat.
We will not allow this to become normal.
The Trump regime is trying to crush dissent beginning with those who speak out for Palestinian freedom. This is a threat to all who believe in justice. Tell Congress to protect students & demand Mahmoud’s release: bit.ly/freemahmoudnow
The Trump regime is trying to crush dissent beginning with those who speak out for Palestinian freedom. This is a threat to all who believe in justice. Tell Congress to protect students & demand Mahmoud’s release: bit.ly/freemahmoudnow
Release Mahmoud Khalil & Protect All Student Activists
Write to Columbia University and the Department of Homeland Security!
Over the past two days, we have seen a deliberate and dangerous escalation in the suppression of free speech targeting our moveme...
bit.ly
March 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
We will not allow this to become normal.
The Trump regime is trying to crush dissent beginning with those who speak out for Palestinian freedom. This is a threat to all who believe in justice. Tell Congress to protect students & demand Mahmoud’s release: bit.ly/freemahmoudnow
The Trump regime is trying to crush dissent beginning with those who speak out for Palestinian freedom. This is a threat to all who believe in justice. Tell Congress to protect students & demand Mahmoud’s release: bit.ly/freemahmoudnow
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my grandfather died of covid in an upstate NY nursing home, alone
I miss him desperately. That damn virus should've never got into his living place, the place where he was supposed to be safe
I miss him desperately. That damn virus should've never got into his living place, the place where he was supposed to be safe
Andrew Cuomo, in addition to being a serial sexual harasser, knowingly sent people with Covid into old folks homes, leading to a massive rate of infection and death for the elderly.
Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.
Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.
“Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It.
A nursing home in Troy, New York, followed the governor’s order to accept patients being treated for COVID-19. Six weeks later, 18 residents were dead of the disease.
www.propublica.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
my grandfather died of covid in an upstate NY nursing home, alone
I miss him desperately. That damn virus should've never got into his living place, the place where he was supposed to be safe
I miss him desperately. That damn virus should've never got into his living place, the place where he was supposed to be safe
On the prison guards strike in NYS with Jarrod Shanahan truthout.org/articles/nys...
NY’s Prison Guard Strike Has Roots in Decades of Racialized Deindustrialization
The guards’ demand for impunity is about the maintenance of violence at the core of the system, says Andrea R. Morrell.
truthout.org
March 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
On the prison guards strike in NYS with Jarrod Shanahan truthout.org/articles/nys...
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Some of what Trump is attempting to do is unlawful, but some of his shadier maneuvers will likely be supported by the courts. SCOTUS is on his side. I don't say this to discourage people, but as a reminder that the law cannot be our bottom line. Our obligation is to each other, not the law.
January 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Some of what Trump is attempting to do is unlawful, but some of his shadier maneuvers will likely be supported by the courts. SCOTUS is on his side. I don't say this to discourage people, but as a reminder that the law cannot be our bottom line. Our obligation is to each other, not the law.