Andrea Morrell

Faculty Fellow

Andrea Morrell is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Guttman Community College CUNY where she teaches first year courses on immigration and labor. Her research focuses on prisons as economic development and race and class in the United States. She is completing a book on the expansion of prisons into Elmira, New York. Her writing has been published in North American Dialogue.

Participating Years

2015–2016

Dialectics of Autonomy and Dependence

Self-determination had a heady run in the 20th century, instanced by both revolutionary assertion and homogenizing mimicry. But what is autonomy now? What is dependence? How are these conditions of existence necessarily related – as contradictory rather than contrasting ideologies, representations, relations, outcomes? What forms reveal the dialectic at work? What forms disguise or displace the dynamic?