Lisa Guenther

Lisa Guenther is Associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

Latest from Lisa Guenther

Op-Ed

Botched or Normal? Pathologies of Violence in the Killing State

The appearance of a cruelty-free execution has always been just that: a carefully-crafted appearance.

by: Lisa Guenther,; New APPS

May 5, 2014

Op-Ed

Politics & Elections Prisons & Policing

Pro-Life and Social Death: A Portrait of Tennessee

One Tennessee new law proposes to bring back the electric chair should lethal injection drugs prove unavailable. The other would allow for criminal assault charges to be brought…

by: Lisa Guenther,; SpeakOut

April 22, 2014

News Analysis

Prisons & Policing

Radical Philosophy and the Free Alabama Movement

The Free Alabama Movement (FAM) seeks to analyze, resist, and transform prison slavery from within the Prison Industrial Complex.

by: Lisa Guenther,; New APPS

April 22, 2014

Social Death and the Criminalization of Resistance in the California Prison Hunger Strikes

At stake here is the very meaning of social life and social death, and the continued legacy of slavery, both in the U.S. prison system and in the…

by: Lisa Guenther,; University of Minnesota Press

August 2, 2013