Nicholas Shapiro

Nicholas Shapiro, an Assistant Professor at UCLA’s Institute for Society & Genetics and director of the lab Carceral Ecologies, is a multidisciplinary environmental researcher that studies, and designs interventions into, issues of chemical contamination and the environmental health consequences of mass incarceration. His first book, Homesick, is about how housing became a seat of toxicity and what we can do about it, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. His work has been featured in the LA Times, The Guardian, and The New Yorker among others, and translated into French, Spanish, and Korean.