Gwen Prowse is a joint PhD candidate in the departments of political science and African American studies at Yale University. Her work is broadly concerned with grassroots political mobilization in the Deep South region of the U.S. Gwen’s research is multi-method and aims to involve community members in every step of the research process.
Gwen is a research fellow with the Institute for Social Policy Studies (ISPS) and affiliated with the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. She is also the co-PI for the Portals Policing Project, which examines how police-citizen interactions shape political knowledge and political discourse in majority-Black communities in the United States.