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Heather Ann Thompson

Heather Ann Thompson is a historian at the University of Michigan and the Pulitzer‑Prize‑winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. She has also written Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City. Thompson’s work on the criminal‑justice system appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. She has served on a National Academy of Sciences blue‑ribbon panel on mass incarceration, co‑runs the Carceral State Project, and has received honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and a Racial Justice Fellowship from Harvard’s Carr‑Ryan Center. Her scholarship bridges academic history, public policy, and contemporary journalism.