Miriam Gleckman-Krut (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Sociology. Her work focuses on law, gender, sexualities, statehood, and violence. While working on the URSA project, Miriam led the initial data collection effort on U.S. colleges and universities’ compliance with the Clery Act. She currently works with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people who have applied for refugee status in South Africa. Her dissertation uses a legal archive of documents representing 84 people, as well as 11 months of participation with Cape Town-based legal clinics, to examine the construction of the state through the exclusion of a relatively new category of persons (people who identify as LGBTI asylum seekers). // Website
