georgepatrick “george” hutchins

GeorgePatrick (George) Hutchins is a Doctoral Student (PhD) in Sociology at Harvard University and MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He received his BA in Biochemistry and Sociology with honors from Indiana University in 2019, graduating with high distinction. George has completed the first three years of his medical training and will finish medical school concurrently with his PhD.

George’s research and teaching interests exist at the intersection of culture, racial inequality, and carcerality, and how these impact the health of those currently and formerly incarcerated, as well as the broader population. This work is motivated by the need to further elucidate the medical consequences of incarceration and interrogate the role physicians have played and continue to play in legitimizing jail, prison, and policing systems.

At Harvard, George has held a variety of research, teaching, and service roles. Currently, he works as a graduate research assistant at the Harvard Kennedy School Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, where he is engaged in several projects exploring the ongoing harms of incarceration. Since 2020, he has worked alongside the Transformational Prison Project to support data collection efforts, then becoming a certified circle keeper in 2022, and officially joining TPP staff in 2024 as Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council. Through this work, he aims to bring the practice of restorative justice to medical and academic spaces by centering the voices of those with lived experience. We are thrilled to have George as a part of the TPP family and have witnessed first hand how he raises the joy and energy or every space he enters!

George intends to practice internal medicine and produce emancipatory scholarship that advances discourse and transforms conditions within and beyond the academy.