Halee Robinson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and a certificate student in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She received her M.A. in History from Princeton University and her B.A. in History and Political Science from Vanderbilt University. She specializes in the histories of race, punishment, and freedom in the United States. Her dissertation explores the effects and consequences of the Texas penal system on the everyday lives of Black, Mexican, Indigenous, and poor white people in Texas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.