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Tanya Erzen is a Professor of Religion, Spirituality, and Society at the University of Puget Sound, directing the Crime, Law, & Justice Studies minor and founding the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS), a higher education program for incarcerated women. She holds a BA from Brown University (1995), a PhD in American Studies from New York University (2002), and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and ACLS.
Her research focuses on carceral systems, faith-based prison initiatives, gender, and social justice. Notable works include God in Captivity (2017) and Straight to Jesus (2006). She leads projects on prison education, digital archives of incarceration history, and humanities approaches to crime policy. Current grants include a Mellon Foundation grant for crime studies and Ascendium’s prison education initiative.
Awards include the Ruth Benedict Prize and Soros Justice Media Fellow recognition. Erzen’s work bridges academia and activism, addressing systemic inequities in criminal justice and advocating for transformative justice frameworks.
