Robert Chase, a historian of prisons, policing, and punishment is available for commentary regarding the recent shootings in North Carolina.

Chase's expertise also includes the history of mass incarceration and the construction of what historians call "the carceral state." He is an expert in social justice, Latino/a, and civil rights movements, and political and African American history. Robert Chase is an Assistant Professor of History at Stony Brook University in New York.

Stony Brook University has a ReadyCam television studio system and ISDN line available. www.bit.ly/1O8KY6W.