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 the wonderful work done by the DWC and its members.
Warm Regards,
Tara Richards
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2008 DWC AWARDS
Distinguished Scholar Award which recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of women and crime by an established scholar. The contributions may consist of a single outstanding book or work, a series of theoretical or research contributions, or the accumulated contributions of an established scholar. Eligibility includes scholars who have held a Ph.D. for eight or more years.
New Scholar Award which recognizes the achievements of scholards who show outstanding merit at the beginnings of their careers. Outstanding merit may be based on a single book or work, including dissertation or a series of theoreitcal or research contributions to the area of women and crime. Eligibility includes scholars who have held a P.h.D for less than eight years.
Lifetime Achievement Award which recognizes scholars upon retirement. We inaugurated this award on our 20th Anniversary, 2004. Scholars receiving this award should have an established career advancing the goals and work of the Division on Women and Crime.
CoraMae Richey Mann “Inconvenient Woman of the Year” Award recognizes the scholar/activist who has participated in publicly promoting the ideals of gender equality and women’s rights throughout society, particularly as it relates to gender and crime issues. This award will be granted on an ad hoc basis. Nominations should include specific documentation of public service (news articles, etc) and should describe in detail how this person’s activism has raised awareness and interest in the issues that concern the Division on Women and Crime. This award was inaugurated in honor of our 20th Anniversary in 2004.
Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice recognizes a criminologist whose professional accomplishments have increased the quality of justice and the level of safety for women. The Saltzman Award need not be given every year. It is available to honor unique achievements combining scholarship, persuasion, activism and commitment, particularly work that has made a deep impact on the quality of justice for women, as well as a wide impact (interdisciplinary, international, or cross-cultural). The nominees are evaluated by the awards committee based on their scholarly work, their commitment to women crime as a research discipline, and their commitment to women in crime as advocates, particularly in terms of dedication to the Division on Women and Crime. In submitting your nomination, please provide the following supporting materials: a letter evaluating a nominee’s contribution and its relevance to the award and the nominee’s c.v. (short version preferred). No nominee will be considered unless these materials are provided and arrive by the deadline.
Send nominations and supporting materials by October 17, 2008.
Division Awards will be presented at the DWC meeting at the ASC conference in November. The committee reserves the right to give no award in a particular year if it deems this appropriate.
Submissions: Please send a letter of nomination describing the nominees contributions, identify the award for which you are nominating the individual (e.g., distinguished scholar, new scholar), and make sure that a vita for this nominee reaches the committee in a timely fashion. Self nominations are welcome. Send nominations to:
Brenda Sims Blackwell
Associate Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4018
140 Decatur St., SE, Rm 1201
Atlanta, GA 30303
EMILY LENNING has our sincere congratulations for finishing her Ph.D. in Sociology (specializing in Criminology and Gender/Feminism) at Western Michigan University. Her dissertation was titled, “This Journey is not for the Faint of Heart: An Investigation of Challenges Facing Transgender Individuals and their Significant Others.” Emily will be starting a tenure-track position at Fayetteville State University in the fall.
Below is a photo forwarded by JOANNE BELKNAP of HELEN EIGENBERG and her 69 year old mother celebrating 10 years of Helen being cancer free. Helen and her mother got matching mother/daughter tattoos on April 7, 2008. They are a butterfly w/ the breast cancer ribbon as the body. Helen’s mom has her’s on her upper arm and Helen’s is on her chest, just below her collarbone. Helen reported, “Mine hurt like hell, my mom said ‘not so bad’.”
For those of you who don’t know, Helen had two “sheroic” struggles at the same time: fighting stage 3B breast cancer and a sex discrimination case against Eastern Kentucky University for firing her. We are grateful for her success in both battles!
Go, Helen! Thank you for your many, many contributions to feminist criminology!!! (And not “just” editing the journal Feminist Criminology!)
HEATHER MELTON got promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Utah! Yeah, Heather!
MICHELLE MELOY and GAIL CAPUTO of Rutgers University – Camden were promoted to Associate Professors with tenure! Congrats to both of you!
VENEZIA MICHALSEN will be leaving her position as Director of Analysis and Client Information Systems at the Women’s Prison Association after almost 6 years! She will be starting a position as an Assistant Professor in the Justice Studies Department at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey for the fall 2008 semester. You can reach Venezia at her new email address: michalsenv@mail.montclair.edu . Congratulations and good luck!
NEW WORKS AUTHORED BY DWC MEMBERS
SUSAN CARINGELLA has a new book coming out this fall, and an “Author Meets Critic” session on it at the upcoming ASC meetings. The book is entitled Addressing Rape Reform in Law and Practice, 2008 by Columbia University Press. The book details “where to go from here” vis-a-vis the rape reform movement. It delineates an innovative legal model of reform and follows through in chapters describing how to ensure that implementation is accomplished in practices that realize the goals of reform, largely unmet by previous reform efforts.
BONNIE KERN would like to announce the publication of her novel, Proclivity. Her first book signing is at Waldenbooks, Southridge Mall, Des Moines, Iowa, on August 23rd. Congrats, Bonnie! She is also enjoying her roles as a mentor for the Des Moines women’s Winner’s Circle, a peer-led reentry group; a member of the Friends of Iowa Women Prisoners; and a guest speaker at the Circles of Support, a volunteer offender group that makes Christmas socks for children in foster care and organizes fun, chemically-free events. Good luck in your many endeavors!
ROSLYN MURASKIN would like to announce the 5th edition of Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the Twenty-First Century, Prentice Hall 2009 (co-author/editor Albert R. Roberts) as well as the completion of the 2nd edition of Key Correctional Issues, which will be available in early 2009. We would like to congratulate Roslyn for receiving the 2008 Fellow Award by the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences for outstanding contributions to scholarship in criminal justice through published works, scholarly papers, teaching, grants and other related professional activities. She is also being commended for her work as the editor for the Women’s Series for Prentice Hall and as editor of the refereed Journal, A Critical Journal of Crime, Law, and Society, published by Routledge, Taylor, & Francis group.
JOSEPH F. DONNERMEYER and WALTER DEKESEREDY’S new article titled “Toward a Rural Critical Criminology” will appear soon in the peer reviewed journal Southern Rural Sociology (2008, Vol. 23, No. 2). This journal is the official journal of the Southern Rural SociologicalAssociation.
Walter has also published several entries in the new Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence published by Sage and edited by CLAIRE RENZETTI and JEFFREY L. EDLESON.
Below are some more of Walter’s recent publications.
DeKeseredy, W.S., & Schwartz, M.D. (in press). “Separation/Divorce and Sexual assault in Rural Ohio: Survivors’ Perceptions of Collective Efficacy.” Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community.
DeKeseredy, W.S. (in press). “Canadian Crime Control in the New Millennium: The Influence of Neo-Conservative U.S. Policies and Practices. Police Practice and Research.
Schwartz, M.D., & DeKeseredy, W.S. (2008). “Interpersonal Violence against Women: The Role of Men.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 24, 178-185.