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Brianna Nofil

PhD student in U.S. history at Columbia University, writing about immigration, crime, and prisons.

bln2109@columbia.edu

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  • Photo of Galveston County Jail, 1929.

    How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration

    Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”
    by Brianna Nofil via The Texas Observer on November 19, 2024
  • Cartoon portraits of women who were mayors in 1922.

    In the 1920s, the Now-Forgotten Flood of 'Girl Mayors' Became the Face of Feminism

    Profiles of a few of the municipal leaders elected in the wake of the 19th Amendment.
    by Brianna Nofil via Atlas Obscura on July 6, 2016
  • Ellis Island's Forgotten Final Act as a Cold War Detention Center

    The idealistic interpretation of Ellis Island should be revisited.
    by Brianna Nofil via Atlas Obscura on February 2, 2016
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