Congratulations to DWC Graduate Scholarship and Travel Grant Award Winners

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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2019 Division on Women & Crime funding awards

The Division on Women & Crime Larry J. Siegel Graduate Fellowship for the Study of Gender and Crime

  • Kathleen Ratajczak, a doctoral candidate at the University of Kentucky, will receive $5000 for her project titled: “Help Seeking after Campus Sexual Assault: From Title IX to Victims.”

  • Tri Keah Henry, a doctoral candidate at Sam Houston State University, will receive $500 for her project titled: “Racial Stereotypes and Gendered Crimes: A Multi-level Examination of the Effect of Race and Gender on Sentencing Disparities.”

  • Meg Osborn, a doctoral candidate at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (GC-CUNY), will receive $500 for her project titled: “LGBTQ+ Young Adults’ Encounters with Police: Contextual Factors, Consequences, and Service Needs.”

The Division on Women & Crime Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship

  • Ellen Van Damme, a doctoral candidate at the Leuven Institute of Criminology in Belgium, will receive $5000 for her project titled: “The position and role of women in and around gangs in Honduras, Central America.”

  • Katherine Maldonado, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Riverside, will receive $500 for her project titled: “Open Wounds: Gang-Involved Undocumented Latina Mothers and Violence in the Borderlands.”

  • Amber Wilson, a doctoral candidate at the University of South Carolina, will receive $500 for her project titled: “The Experiences of Female Community Corrections Officers: An Intersectional Perspective.”

The Division on Women & Crime Aruna Jain International Travel Grant

  • Kaitlyn Quinn, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto who is currently living and conducting fieldwork in Nottingham, UK, will receive a $2500 travel reimbursement award for for attending the 2019 American Society of Criminology Conference in  San Francisco to present her research titled: “What We Talk About When We Talk About the Penal Voluntary Sector.”

The Division on Women & Crime Claire M. Renzetti Domestic Travel Grant

  • Ntasha Bhardwaj, a doctoral candidate at the Rutgers University (Newark), will receive a $2000 travel reimbursement award for attending the 2019 American Society of Criminology Conference in  San Francisco to present her research titled: “Exploring Pathways to Incarceration among Indian and Sri Lankan Women.”

The Division on Women & Crime Pace Kaur Bahl Travel Grant for Women in Law Enforcement

  • Ivonne Roman, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Public Affairs and Community Development of Rutgers University, will receive a $2000 travel reimbursement award for attending the 2019 American Society of Criminology Conference in San Francisco to present her research titled: “Physical Ability Testing and its Impact on the Recruitment and Retention of Women in Police Academies. A Case-Study of the Impact of the NJ Police Training Commission’s Change in Physical Fitness Policy.”

Congratulations to all our award recipients and thanks to the selection committee members:

  • DWC’s Larry J. Siegel & Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship – Co-chairs: Sheetal Ranjan & Kristy Holtfreter. Committee members: Drs. Elaine Arnull, Rosemary Barberet and Amanda Burgess-Proctor

  • DWC’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee reviewed the Travel Grants – Co-chairs: Valli Rajah & Sean Wilson. Committee members: Stephanie Bonnes, Janet Garcia-Hallett, Alondra Garza, Deena Isom, Carrie Li, Vanessa Panfil & Cynthia-Lee Williams.

Thank you to the people who make these awards possible: Larry J. Siegel, Terri Libby, and the Darald and Julie Libby Foundation; members of the Feminist Criminology editorial board; Claire Renzetti; Prit Kaur; family of Aruna Jain; and members of the DWC executive council. What a wonderful way to cultivate outstanding feminist scholarship!

DWC Member Becomes Youngest Full Professor at the University of Oklahoma

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DWC Executive Board member Meredith Worthen has become the youngest faculty member at the University of Oklahoma to achieve the title of full professor after the board of regents approved her promotion in May. It’s also entirely possible she is the youngest woman to reach full professor in OU history, though digital records only go back to 1983.

Worthen’s research focus covers deviance, feminist criminology, sexualities, LGBTQ identities in adolescents and LGBTQ stigma.

The transition from associate professor to full professor takes, on average, nine years. Worthen did it in five.

What makes this an even bigger deal is that, statistically, becoming a full professor is even more difficult for women than it is for men in academia. Unlike the path to tenure that is, for the most part, established at six or seven years, the process to become a full professor is much more vague and has no time limit.

“We just seem to hang out in associate for a long time,” Worthen said. “Sometimes for our entire career.”

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DWC Members Win Major ASC Awards

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Four DWC members have won the following ASC honors and awards:

  • Dr. Marjorie Zatz will be given the title of ‘Fellow’ (Note: Marjorie is on the ballot in the upcoming ASC Presidential Elections)
  • Dr. Valerie Jenness will receive the 2019 August Vollmer Award.
  • Dr. Amanda Burgess Proctor will receive the 2019 Herbert Bloch Award.
  • Dr. Jillian Turanovic will receive the 2019 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award

The title of “Fellow” is American Society of Criminology’s highest honor and given to those members of the ASC in good standing who have achieved distinction in criminology. The honorary title “Fellow” recognizes persons who have made a scholarly contribution to the intellectual life of the discipline, whether in the form of a singular, major piece of scholarship or cumulative scholarly contributions. Longevity alone is not sufficient. In addition, a Fellow must have made a significant contribution to the field through the career development of other criminologists and/or through organizational activities within the ASC.

The August Vollmer Award (established in 1959) recognizes an individual whose scholarship or professional activities have made outstanding contributions to justice or to the treatment or prevention of criminal or delinquent behavior.

The Herbert Bloch Award (established in 1961) recognizes outstanding service contributions to the American Society of Criminology and to the professional interests of criminology.

The Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award (established in 1997) is given to recognize outstanding scholarly contributions to the discipline of criminology by someone who has received the Ph.D., MD, LL.D. or a similar graduate degree no more than five years before the year of the award.

DWC Announces Pace Kaur Bahl Travel Grant for Women in Law Enforcement

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The DWC is excited to announce a new travel grant which is funded for three years starting in 2019 with possibility of extension in future years.

The Division on Women and Crime Pace Kaur Bahl Travel Grant for Women in Law Enforcement to present a paper, poster, roundtable, or lightning talk at ASC 2019 (one $2000 travel reimbursement award).

The submission deadline is May 10th.