Cameron Enyu Gan is pursuing their Ph.D. in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program. They have held a policy internship with the International Detention Coalition and research assistantships with PrisonPandemic at UC Irvine and the Govern Through Contagion project at the National University of Singapore. Prior to graduate school, Cameron received B.A.s from UC Irvine, graduating magna cum laude in Criminology, Law and Society, and East Asian Cultures.
Cameron’s research interests lie at the intersection of immigration, the carceral state, and global and transnational studies. Their work focuses on identifying the mechanisms driving the global diffusion of carceral logics in immigration detention, and on shifting attitudes toward liberal human rights frameworks across diverse national contexts. Methodologically, they are interested in historically embedded ethnography—approaches that trace the development of contemporary phenomena through historical processes and center the lived experiences of ground-level actors and marginalized communities.
