Hello Fellow DWC Members,
Below is the collected news from a variety of DWC members, showing what an amazing organization we have! Please keep sending updates to tricha11@gmail.com.
Best Regards,
Tara Richards
It’s award time! Click HERE to access information on the 2013 DWC Awards, how to nominate someone, and what each award represents.
For students, it’s also time for the DWC Student Paper Awards (grad and undergrad). The DWC invites both undergraduate and graduate student submissions for the student paper competition. One electronic copy using MSWord (please do not send a PDF file) should be emailed to the co-chair of the committee, Dr. Angela Gover at angela.gover@ucdenver.edu by September 15, 2013. All entrants will be notified of the committee’s decision no later than November 1st. Questions about the competition should be sent to Dr. Lisa Murphy at lmurphy0710@gmail.com.
Join us in congratulating Molly Dragiewicz in her new position at Queensland University of Technology where she will be Associate Professor in the School of Justice, Faculty of Law beginning this summer.
Congrats are also in order for several DWCer’s have also received tenure and /or promotions:
Kristi Holsinger was recently promoted to Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. Kristi was one of Joanne Belknap’s first graduate students!
Venezia Michalson was awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at Montclair University.
Bob Jenkot has received tenure and promotion Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Sociology at Coastal Carolina University.
Jane E. Palmer recently finished her PhD from American University’s Department of Justice, Law and Society. The title of her dissertation was “A few times I have knocked on doors at parties…”: The role of peers as bystanders in preventing and responding to sexual assault and dating violence on a college campus. She is currently a post-doctoral associate at Rutgers University School of Social Work’s Center on Violence Against Women & Children where she is working on a longitudinal and experimental evaluation of a sexual violence prevention and bystander intervention program.
In Spring 2013, Meredith G. F. Worthen received the Irene Rothbaum Outstanding Assistant Professor Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, which recognizes a model teacher for dedication, effectiveness and ability to inspire students to high levels of achievement and the Robert D. Lemon Social Justice Award from the Center for Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma, which is given to a faculty member who demonstrates courage, compassion, and leadership while working to eliminate discrimination, oppression, and injustice locally and globally.
Walter DeKeseredy is giving a keynote address titled Crime, Justice and Inequality: Oh Canada, Where Art Thou? at the 2013 international conference on Crime, Justice and Social Democracy at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane in July. His presentation will also be published in the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.
Susan Sharp has been selected to be a David Ross Boyd Professor, one of the two named professorships that are university wide at OU. She also received the Evelyn Gilbert Unsung Hero Award from ACJS’s Section on Minorities and Women.
Emily Lenning was selected as one of the Fayetteville Observer’s “40 Under forty” which recognizes young professionals in the Fayetteville, NC area: (http://marketplace.fayobserver.com/40under40/honorees.php#).
Walter Dekeseredy and Molly Dragiewicz received a federal grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to partner with two Australian scholars to develop a study of health and safety of anti-violence workers in Canada and Australia.
Chris M. Smith, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently received the National Science Foundation Sociology Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for research on women in Prohibition era organized crime networks. Congrats, Chris!
Several DWC members also have upcoming publications:
Stacy Mallicoat and Connie Ireland Estrada’s new book is out. The book is entitled, Women and Crime: The Essentials, (http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book237501?course=Course6&sortBy=defaultPubDate%20desc&fs=1).
Walter DeKeseredy has two new books coming out soon as well. One is with Martin Schwartz and is titled Male Peer Support and Violence Against Women: The History and Verification of a Theory (http://www.upne.com/1555538323.html) and the other is with Joseph Donnermeyer (an Ohio State University sociologist) and is titled Rural Criminology (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415634380/).
Walter DeKeseredy and Martin Schwartz have a new article titled “Confronting Progressive Retreatism and M<inimalism: The Role of a New Left Realist Approach” in Critical Criminology.
Walter DeKeseredy and Callie Rennison have published an article titled “Comparing Female Victims of Male Perpetrated Separation/Divorce Assault Across Geographical Regions: Results from the National Crime Victimization Survey” in the International Journal for Crime and Research, 2, 65-81.