Hello Fellow DWC Members,
Here is all the news from your colleagues around the country and around the world. Keep sending me updates, so we can all share in the wonderful work done by the DWC and its members.
Warm Regards,
Tara Richards
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MEMBER NEWS
ANGIE MOE was awarded tenure at Western Michigan University. Not only that, but she got tenure EARLY! Congratulations to you, Angie.
The Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Ball State University is very pleased to announce two appointments to the faculty, SHARON REDHAWK LOVE and KIESHA WARREN-GORDON.
Sharon RedHawk Love received her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in Sociology. Her research has focused on women and justice as well as theory testing. Sharon is also our very own former DWC chair!
Kiesha Warren-Gordon received her Ph.D. in sociology from Western Michigan University. Her research explores the intersection of race and class in the administration of the death penalty, family structure and juvenile delinquency, and intercultural conflict.
SUSAN SHARP was awarded the University of Oklahoma College of Liberal Studies Kenneth E. Crook faculty award, based on her excellence in teaching and meritorious service to the college. She is also starting a new project for the state of Oklahoma on incarcerated mothers and their children. Congratulations Susan!
In even more exciting SUSAN SHARP-related news, she was just promoted to full professor. She is the first female full professor in her department-ever! Double congratulations on that accomplishment!
JODY MILLER has been promoted to full professor at The University of Missouri- St. Louis, Congrats Jody!
KRISTY HOLFRETER is leaving FSU to join the faculty of the School of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. Her new appointment begins in August 2008. Best wishes Kristy!
KIM DAVIES announces her appointment as program chair of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Mid South Sociological Association to be held October 22-25, 2008 in Huntsville, AL. The Theme is: SOCIOLOGY IN AN INCREASINGLY VIRTUAL WORLD. She welcomes papers and organizers. Please contact kdavies@aug.edu or visit www.midsouthsoc.org/meeting.htm.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2007 DWC awards:
* Hillary Potter (Young Scholar)
* Merry Morash (Distinguished Scholar)
* Tina Freiburger (Best Graduate Paper)
* Rebecca DeAngelis (Best Undergraduate Paper)
* Caroline Akers (Honorable Mention, Graduate Paper)
Congratulations also to the five DWC members named as among the top 20 young female criminologists in a recent issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education:
* Marie L. Griffin
* Kristy Holtfreter
* Beth Huebner
* Barbara Koons-Witt
* Nicole Leeper Piquero
NEW WORKS AUTHORED BY DWC MEMBERS
JODY MILLER has a new book, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, hot off the presses at NYU Press. See a review of the book in the Book Reviews section.
WALTER DEKESEREDY, a professor with the Faculty of Criminology, Justice, and Policy Studies, at the University of Ontario, Institute of Technology announces his contribution to several new publications:
DeKeseredy, W.S., & Dragiewicz, M. (2007). "Understanding the Complexities of Feminist Perspectives on Woman Abuse: A Commentary on Donald G. Dutton's Rethinking Domestic Violence." Violence Against Women, 13, 874-884.
DeKeseredy, W.S., Donnermyer, J., Schwartz, M.D., Tunnell, K., & Hall, M. (2007). "Thinking Critically about Rural Gender Relations: Toward a Rural Masculinity/Male Peer Support Model of Separation/Divorce Sexual Assault." Critical Criminology, 15, 295-311.
Block, C.R., & DeKeseredy, W.S. (2007). "Forced Sex and Leaving Intimate Relationships: Results of the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study." Women's Health and Urban Life, 6, 6-23.
STEVEN BARKAN has authored a new criminology textbook, to be in print next year:
Barkan, Steven E. 2009. Criminology: A Sociological Understanding, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
KRISTY HOLTFRETER has several recent publications as well:
Holtfreter, Kristy, Michael D. Reisig, & Travis C. Pratt (2008). "Low Self-Control, Routine Activities, and Fraud Victimization." Criminology. 46(1): 101-132.
Holtfreter, Kristy (2008). "Determinants of Fraud Losses in Nonprofit Organizations. Nonprofit Mangement & Leadership. Holtfreter, Kristy, Nicole Leeper Piquero, & Alex R. Piquero (2008). And Justice for All? Investigator Perceptions of Punishment for Fraud Perpetrators." Crime, Law & Social Change.
UPCOMING CONFERENCE
The Justice Studies Association will be meeting at George Mason University June 5-7, 2008.
The theme of the conference is “Democracy, HOW?: Justice and Democracy in 2008,” which encourages any kind of presentation on race, gender, class, and sexual orientation in relation to participation in local as well as global societies. Presentations could be on the environment, democracy in the family, the school and the workplace as well as countless other areas of human concern.
Check out the JSA website: www.justicestudies.org for a complete selection of topics that fit under the theme’s broad umbrella.
The association’s journal, Contemporary Justice Review is now in its 11th year and producing progressive pieces of note in all areas relevant to our daily lives. This March there is a wonderful special issue on Critical Race Theory which follows upon the heels of two fine issues on the healing effects of drugs on human consciousness. If you have not seen the journal recently you might like to get a free copy from our publisher, Routledge. Just click here.