Los Angeles Times Quotes Professor Pruitt in Story on Struggling Central Valley Town

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke to reporter Priscella Vega of the Los Angeles Times for an Oct. 6 story about the struggling small town of Stratford, Calif., and its loyal, hopeful residents. Read the story.

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts. She is the recipient of the law school’s 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.