Professor Pruitt Talks to U.S. News About Rust Belt Democrats' Appeals to Working Class

Professor Lisa Pruitt spoke to U.S. News & World Report for a July 29 story about how  Democratic Senate candidates Rep. Tim Ryan (Ohio) and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (Pennsylvania) are making strong appeals to the white working class in races against celebrity Republican candidates J.D. Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz, respectively. 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.