Isabel Anadon

Isabel is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Law and Inequality Fellow with the American Bar Foundation. My work centers on uncovering how changes and shifts in the legal system and changing definitions and norms of punishment, over time, impact the daily lives of those punished and the accompanying structural changes that accrue to their familial and social networks. My dissertation project, “Interior Immigration Enforcement: structural mechanisms and the punishment of immigrants in the United States,” conceptualizes systems of immigrant punishment into three broad and intersecting arenas: 1) institutions, 2) laws and policies, and 3) procedural processes. This project uncovers how these three key structural mechanisms intersect with the immigrant and criminal legal systems negatively impacting life outcomes for immigrants and other populations across space and time. My research and teaching strategies are inspired by my extensive community organizing and collaborative efforts alongside stakeholders from local communities and government institutions in Illinois and Wisconsin on issues of criminal justice, immigrant integration, education, local & federal immigration policy and access to health care. Isabel holds a M.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.P.P. from the University of Chicago. and a dual B.A. in Anthropology and Psychology from the University of Notre Dame.