Jermaine Thibodeaux is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Texas-Austin. A native of Houston, Texas, Jermaine attended Cornell University, where he was selected as a Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow. After earning an A.B. in History, with a certificate in the law and society program, Jermaine returned to Texas to pursue graduate studies. He plans to complete a dissertation that interrogates the role of the Texas sugar industry in the development and expansion of the state's prison system. His work will also examine the phenomenon of black male incarcerations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how it affected Black Texans and their communities. His intellectual interests also broadly consider notions of masculinities, criminality, slavery and racial capitalism. He is advised by Professor Daina Ramey Berry in U.S and African-American history.
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