Halee Robinson

Halee Robinson

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Halee Robinson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University. She received her B.A. from Vanderbilt University in History and Political Science. She currently works on the histories of race, freedom, citizenship, and the carceral state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “The Texas Penal System, Community, and the Meanings of Freedom and Citizenship, 1865-1912,” explores how Black, Mexican, and poor white folks increasingly came into contact with the Texas penal system after the Civil War. Focusing on Texas residents’ experiences with policing, courts, and state punishment and violence, she examines how the penal system shaped the meanings and contours of freedom, citizenship, and community across the state.