Amed Galo Lopez

Amed Galo Lopez is a Ph.D. student in the department of History at UCLA. Galo’s research focuses on transnational prisons and prisoner experiences in Africa, Europe, Latin America, the United States, and other parts of the world. The majority of his research explores Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, Carcerality, Autocracy, Gender and State, and the Prison-Industrial-Complex through autobiographies, poetry, music, art, archives (some of which were once prisons), social justice organizations, and grassroots as well as firsthand oral accounts through narratives, interviews, tradition, and ritual from revolutionaries, dissidents, anarchists, poets, novelists, social justice activists, feminists, and LGBT+ communities.

Publications:
“Prisons and Freedom Papers: The Kenyan Experience of the Twentieth Century”, UCLA, 2021

Degrees:
BA in History, UCLA, 2021 history.ucla.edu history.ucla.edu+4history.ucla.edu
MA in African Studies, UCLA, 2021 history.ucla.edu
Languages include Swahili, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English.

Advisors:
Robin D.G. Kelley (Chair)
Kelly Lytle-Hernandez
Hollian Frederick-Wint
Andrew Apter

Links:
School Website: https://history.ucla.edu/person/amed-galo-lopez/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amed-galo-lopez-837710147/