Halee R. Robinson is an Assistant Professor of History and Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her PhD from Princeton University in History and a Graduate Certificate in African American Studies. She is currently working on her first book, They Taken Him Away From Us: Race, Punishment, and the Intimate Histories of the Texas Prison System, 1865-1912. The book explores how the Texas prison system impacted the social ties of free and incarcerated Black, ethnic Mexican, Indigenous, and white people and how these intimate encounters consequently shaped the meanings of freedom, justice, and punishment after the Civil War. Halee received her BA in History and Political Science from Vanderbilt University and her MA in History from Princeton University. Her work has been supported by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Texas State Library and Archives, Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast Region, and the Princeton University Center for Human Values.