The Center for the Study of Social Difference is an interdisciplinary research center supporting collaborative projects that address gender, race, sexuality, and other forms of inequality to foster ethical and progressive social change.The Center has initiating the yearlong program Countering the Carceral State, for the 2025-2026 academic year, which investigates interconnections between the crises of disciplinary enforcement central to American power at home and abroad. Organized on the occasion of Malcolm X’s centennial and inspired by his internationalist insights, program events will probe continuities between policing, racial profiling, and police militarization; the prison industrial complex; immigrant detention; forever wars in the Middle East and Central Asia; and the transformation of war zones like Gaza into technological testbeds.