Professor Pruitt's essay on 'Hillbilly Elegy' published in Chicago Tribune, other outlets

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt's essay on the film "Hillbilly Elegy," first published Dec. 3 in The Conversation, has been picked up by the Chicago Tribune, Salon and The Daily Yonder.

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.