Professor Pruitt Discusses Perceptions of Rural-Urban Divide on Minnesota Podcast

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt appeared on a special episode of Minnesota Public Radio’s Minnesota Now podcast on Sept. 19 to discuss the realities and myths of the so-called rural urban divide. MPR News host Kerri Miller interviewed Pruitt as well as University of Kentucky Assistant Professor and sociologist Loka Ashwood.     

On Oct. 25, Pruitt will speak at the “Mending the Rural-Urban Rift” session of the Westminster (Minn.) Town Hall Forum.   

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. 

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