Lindsey Feldman

Dr. Lindsey Raisa Feldman is a Tucsonan and a 3-time graduate of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona (BA, MA, and PhD). Since 2015, across multiple research and teaching projects, she has interrogated the lived experiences and lasting impacts of the American carceral system on the humans within and betwixt its walls. She is interested in understanding how incarcerated individuals creatively express their identities and maintain a sense of selfhood while living under hyper-restrictive conditions, with a particular interest in how men navigate and resist dominant modes of masculine identity in the prison space. She theorizes masculinities in the plural, in order to understand the inherent emergence of self identity, and to center dignity and possibility of incarcerated peoples in her images, writing, and action. 

Across her career she has implemented both individual ethnographic projects as well as collaborative, community-engaged research initiatives. She has taught a range of courses from a 160-person introductory course on race and the American dream, a 10-person graduate seminar on gender and social identity, and a course titled American Communities as part of the Inside Out Prison Education Program, which was held each week alongside incarcerated scholars at the Shelby County Division of Corrections. 

She is thrilled to return to her alma mater and be part of the W.A. Franke Honors College. At Franke, she will be a contributing faculty member for the HHV minor, and will teach the core curriculum for this program, as well as other courses. This semester she is teaching a Special Topics course titled ‘Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Health.’ She is looking forward to working with students in the classroom, on internships and theses, and in many more ways she has yet to find out about!