Halee Robinson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and a certificate student in the Department of African American Studies. She specializes in the histories of race, punishment, and freedom in the United States. Her dissertation explores the effects and consequences of the Texas penal system on the everyday lives of Black, Mexican, Indigenous, and poor white people in Texas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, her project illuminates the central role that family and community played not only in the punitive aims of the state, but also in the ways that incarcerated and free people alike resisted state violence and punishment and articulated their own conceptions of justice. Halee received her M.A. in History from Princeton University and her B.A. in History and Political Science from Vanderbilt University.