Nora Krinitsky is a historian of the modern United States who specializes in urban history, African American history, the history of racial formation, and the history of the American carceral state. She earned her PhD from the Department of History at the University of Michigan in 2017. She was the postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at Case Western Reserve University from 2017 to 2018 and a Michigan-Mellon postdoctoral fellow in egalitarianism and the metropolis at the University of Michigan from 2018 to 2019. She is now a Lecturer in the Residential College at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Prison Creative Arts Project. She has presented her work at meetings of the Urban History Association, the Policy History Conference, the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, and the American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Her work has been generously funded by the National Fellowship at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, the Illinois State Historical Society, the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, and the University of Michigan Law School.