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
We would like to congratulate the Sheetal Ranjan, Associate Professor at William Paterson University for her receipt of a second round of grant funding ($300,000) from the Office of Violence Against Women to continue her applied research work on the Campus Violence Prevention Program (CVPP). CVPP provides education, training and coordination of services on issues related to domestic violence, dating violence, stalking & sexual violence. Sheetal has also been appointed to New Jersey’s newly formed “Study Commission on Violence”. This commission was established pursuant to recent legislation declaring violence a public health concern. The commission will study the trends, sources and impact of violence on the community and will make recommendations for State and Congressional action.
Jane Siegel also has very cool news to share! In August, Jane was invited to speak on a panel at the White House focused on the effects of parental incarceration on children. The event was organized and sponsored by the American Bar Foundation and the National Science foundation.
Miriam Northcutt Bohmert, a PhD candidate in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, recently received the National Science Foundation Law & Social Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Institute of Justice, and a student research grant from the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice to support research on transportation problems in women offenders. Congrats, Mim!
Congratulations are also in order for Chris Smith, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Chris received the National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship for her dissertation on Prohibition era organized crime networks. She also received 2nd place in the 2013 ASC Gene Carte Student Paper award for a paper titled, “Multiplexity and Organized Crime in Early 1900s Chicago: Criminal, Legitimate, and Personal Relations.”
Sarah Koon-Magnin has been honored with the College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Excellence Award at the University of South Alabama.
Several DWC members have news regarding their faculty positions:=
Rebecca Hayes has been promoted to Associate Professor at Central Michigan University. Congrats, Becky!
Christine Sellers has taken a position as Professor and Director of the School of Criminal Justice at Texas State University. She is excited to be leading a productive faculty and a vibrant new doctoral program.
Tara Richards has taken a new position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Baltimore.
Several members also have new books coming out:
Stacy L. Mallicoat and Christine L. Gardiner have a forthcoming book, Criminal Justice Policy (Sage Publications). Check it out at: http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book238891
Walter DeKeseredy recently released two books, Male peer support and violence against women: The history and verification of a theory (with Marting Schwartz,from Northeastern University Press) and Rural criminology (with Joseph Donnermeyer, from Routledge).
Claire Renzetti, Susan Miller, and Angela Gover have a new edited book coming out, Routledge international handbook of crime and gender studies (from Routledge).
Alana Van Gundy-Yoder has also recently released two books, Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights (from Ashgate Publications) and Feminist Theory, Crime, and Social Justice (from Anderson Publications).
In July, Alana also deployed the website www.womenandcrime.com.
Also, be on the look out for the following articles and book chapters:
DeKeseredy, W.S. (in press). Crime, justice, and inequality: Oh Canada, where art thou? International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.
DeKeseredy, W.S., Muzzatti, S.L., & Donnermeyer, J.F. (2013). Mad men in bib overalls: Media’s horrification and pornification of rural culture. Critical Criminology (OnlineFirst).
DeKeseredy, W.S., & Schwartz, M.D. (2013). Confronting progressive retreatism and minimalism: The role of a new left realist approach. Critical Criminology (OnlineFirst).
DeKeseredy, W.S., & Rennison, C.M. (2013). New directions in the social scientific study of separation/divorce assault. In K. Richards & J. Tauri (Eds.), Crime, justice and social democracy: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference, 2013, volume 1 (pp. 47-57). Brisbane, AU: Crime and Justice Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology.
DeKeseredy, W.S., & Dragiewicz, M. (2013). Gaps in knowledge & emerging areas in gender and criminology. In C.M. Renzetti, S.L. Miller, & A. Gover (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of crime and gender studies (pp. 297-307). London: Routledge.