"Survival: Empirical Poems on Work, Welfare, and Entrepreneurship"
Monica C. Bell is a sociologist and legal scholar who writes about inequality, violence, safety, and racial justice. At Radcliffe, she will complete a book manuscript that punctuates empirical poems—poems created from coded interview transcripts—with research notes, personal stories, and images to offer insights on how Black women living in race-class subjugated neighborhoods survive and find hope under intense and arbitrary state authority.