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Tera Agyepong is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation (ABF) and holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor of Legal History and African American History at DePaul University. She also serves as a Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, gender, history, and the law, particularly in the evolution of criminal and juvenile justice systems.
- Education: J.D./Ph.D. from Northwestern University (School of Law, Department of African American Studies), B.A. from Stanford University
Her scholarly work examines how historical processes of racial and gender construction have shaped legal frameworks, including carceral institutions and juvenile justice laws. She is the author of the award-winning book The Criminalization of Black Children (UNC Press, 2018), which won the Grace Abbott Book Prize in 2018.
Her research projects include Constructing Feminized Courts and Carceral Institutions, analyzing gender, race, and the formation of modern criminal justice. Her publications appear in journals like Northwestern Journal of Human Rights, Journal of African American History, and Gender and History.
- Scientific Awards: Grace Abbott Book Prize (2018)
At DePaul, Agyepong directs the Pre-Law Concentration and History of Law minor. She has been recognized with the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ first endowed professorship in 2016. Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary legal and social justice debates.
