Professor Pruitt writes about the movie 'Hillbilly Elegy' in The Conversation

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt, writing for The Conversation, discusses the new movie version of J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy. Critics are getting the film wrong, Pruitt writes. Read the essay

Professor 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.