Professor Pruitt Speaks at UC Berkeley ‘Voices from the Heartland’ Event

On Oct. 21, Professor Lisa Pruitt participated in the panel discussion “Voices from the Heartland” at UC Berkeley. 

According to its organizers, the discussion aimed “to illuminate the frequently overlooked yet politically potent voices emanating from America’s rural heartlands and small towns” as “the nation braces for a decisive election.”

The event was co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology, Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) and the Berkeley Center for Right Wing Studies. 

Pruitt is president-elect of the Rural Sociological Society.

Distinguished Professor of Law Lisa R. Pruitt 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.