The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has awarded an American Fellowship to Alexa Koenig, a doctoral candidate at Berkeley Law’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. The largest of AAUW’s fellowship and grant programs, American Fellowships are given to top women scholars completing their doctoral dissertations, postdoctoral research, or articles for publication. Koenig’s AAUW fellowship will support her final dissertation, which is based on interviews conducted with former Guantánamo detainees across 13 countries. It examines institutional cruelty in prisons and the interplay of power and resistance in penal settings.