Micol Seigel is Professor of American Studies and History at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research focuses on issues of race and social justice, always in reference to anti-prison activism. Micol has held prestigious fellowships including the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in International Relations at the University of São Paulo and the Oscar Handlin Fellowship for Research in American History from the American Council of Learned Societies.

She is the author of Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police as well as Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States, and editor of three collected volumes. Micol is a founding organizer of the Critical Prison Studies caucus of the American Studies Association, a longtime member of Critical Resistance, a founding member of Care Not Cages and Decarcerate Monroe County, and an Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program instructor. She is currently working to chart human experience and the flows of finance through the family policing system while organizing to prevent jail expansion.