Kavya Padmanabhan received her B.A. from Wesleyan University, M.A. from Columbia University, M.Sc from the London School of Economics, and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to interrogating marginalized women’s experiences with systems of punishment and welfare and explores the efficacy of gender-responsive, community-based models of care. Her work is based upon the principles of abolition feminism and is informed by intersectional and queer theory.
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Research Areas
Intersectional and critical criminology; gendered dynamics of punishment and social welfare; alternatives to incarceration and abolitionist praxis
Education
Ph.D. in Criminology, University of Cambridge, 2024
M.Sc in Criminal Justice Policy, London School of Economics, 2020
M.A in Human Rights Studies, Columbia University
B.A. in English and Government, Wesleyan University, 2018