Alice Driver
-
Mail code: 2020Campus: Dtphx
-
Dr. Alice Driver is a James Beard Award-winning investigative journalist from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. She is the author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company (One Signal Publishers, 2024). In 2024, the book won the Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Driver is the author of More or Less Dead (University of Arizona, 2015) and the translator of Abecedario de Juárez (University of Texas, 2022). In 2025, Driver attended The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Residency, whose former residents include Maya Angelou and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Driver holds a Ph.D. (2011) and an MA (2008) in Hispanic Studies from the University of Kentucky and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. She studied Spanish and Portuguese at Middlebury College Language Schools.
Dr. Alice Driver a holds Ph.D.(2011) and MA (2008) in Hispanic Studies from the University of Kentucky and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. She studied Spanish and Portuguese at Middlebury College Language Schools. She holds a B.A. in Spanish and English from Berea College.
Alice Driver is a Research Assistant Professor for Gender-Based Violence in El Salvador. She is the author of a book about feminicide, More or Less Dead (University of Arizona Press, 2015). Driver has spent the past decade investigating issues at the intersection of gender-based violence and migration in Latin America.
BOOKS
Artists All Around. Princeton Architectural Press. Spring 2025.
The Life and Death of the American Worker. Astra House. Spring 2024.
More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico. University of Arizona Press. March 2015.
BOOK TRANSLATIONS
Cardona, Julián. Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon. Trans. Alice Driver. The University of Texas Press. 2022.