Catherine Bestemen is the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. Devoted to the public humanities, she founded Freedom & Captivity, the Freedom & Captivity Curriculum Project, the Freedom & Captivity Archive of carceral experience, the Colby Across the Walls prison education program, and the Colby College Justice Think Tank and is a host for Justice Radio. She publishes on carcerality, abolition, security, militarism, displacement, and community-based activism and transformation.
On this project, she co-facilitate the PAR advisory group meeting; coordinates the oral history project team in Maine, including training the researchers; codes and analyzes the oral histories; coordinates the convening for the book contributors; contributes chapters to the book; and co-edits the book.
More about her research and teaching is available through her profile on the Colby College website.
