Anne-Marie Cusac, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Roosevelt University, is a George Polk Award-winning journalist. For ten years, she was an editor and investigative reporter for The Progressive magazine. Cusac won the George Polk Award for her article ​“Stunning Technology,” an investigation of the use of the stun belt in U.S. prisons. Cusac’s nonfiction book Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America, was published by Yale University Press in the spring of 2009 (paperback edition, fall 2010).