Professor Judith Pallot

Judith Pallot is Professor emeritus of the University of Oxford and currently is based at the Aleskanteri Institute , University of Helsinki where she holds an European Research Council Advanced Grant (788448), GULAGECHOES in the “multicultural prison”: historical and geographical influences on the identity and politics of ethnic minority prisoners in the communist successor states of Russia and Europe. She has recently been awarded a further grant by the Academy of Finland for research on the penal lagacies in the Balkans. She has been researching the treament of difference in the Russian Prison system since 2005 and is the author of two monographs on the experiences of women drawn into the prison system and articles in academic journals and the media opinion prieces.  She was previously the President of BASEES and is now  honorary vice-president.