Professor Pruitt writes about truck-driver dad in Father's Day piece for CalMatters

In an essay published on Father’s Day (June 21) in CalMatters, Professor Lisa R. Pruitt writes about growing up as the daughter of a truck driver, and how the COVID-19 crisis shined an all-too-brief light on truckers and other essential workers. Read the essay

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.