Book Talk | Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans | The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels with authors Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans in conversation with Emily Bazelon, on April 8th at 5:30 PM.

Pamela Prickett is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and former journalist. She is the author of two books about Los Angeles, including Believing in South Central (Chicago 2021).

Stefan Timmermans is a professor of sociology at UCLA. He is the sociology editor of Social Science and Medicine and the author of six academic books, including an award-winning book on forensic death investigations.

Emily Bazelon is a Lecturer in Law, Senior Research Scholar in Law, and Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School. She is also a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and author of two national bestsellers, Charged: The Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration and Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. She co-hosts a popular podcast, the Slate Political Gabfest. Before joining the Times, Bazelon worked for nine years as a senior editor at Slate. She has been a Soros media fellow, an editor and writer at Legal Affairs magazine, and a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She was a frequent guest on the Colbert Report. Bazelon is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.