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Member
Profiles
In this issue I am honored to present member
profiles for Natalie Sokoloff, Nancy Wonders
and Vickie Jensen. Thank you Natalie, Nancy
and Vickie for sharing a bit about yourselves
with the rest of us. I hope the DWC membership
will find these profiles as interesting and
inspirational as I did. I also hope that those
of you who have yet volunteered to participate
in this column will do so very soon! Please
email me at angie.moe@wmich.edu if you are interested.
This is most certainly a time to (re)connect
with one another, as well as build collaborations
and support networks.
Wishing each of you peace,
Angie
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Natalie J. Sokoloff, Professor of Sociology,
John Jay College of Criminal
Justice and Graduate School, CUNY (nsokoloff@jjay.cuny.edu)
What has been your involvement in the American
Society of Criminology? The Division on Women
and Crime? Other ASC divisions?
I didn't come to my first ASC meeting until
about 18-20 years ago-a year when I was on sabbatical.
My husband and I have always had a commuting
relationship (for 31 years). We had a young
child (Josh is now 20) and so I could only come
to meetings when either he or I were on sabbatical.
Otherwise, my life was too hectic. For 20 years
Fred commuted down to Baltimore from NYC (he
is a sociologist at UMBC), so I was teaching
full time and taking care of our son in the
middle of the week by myself (no family in town).
Now that I have been commuting for the last
6 years, I also find it very hard to go to ANY
conferences while I'm commuting. This year I
am again on sabbatical and love being able to
come to ASC meetings, and especially DWC.
When I came to my first ASC meeting I fell
in love with the people in the DWC section.
It was sheer joy to meet so many progressive
people who shared much of my own intellectual
and political commitment-including around women
in prison. I had always had contact with people
from ASC and the DWC-by telephone, snail mail
and email. It has been a joy getting to meet
all these wonderful people in person at the
ASC meetings.
I am also a member of Critical Crim and People
of Color Divisions-since their inceptions. They
are also very important to me as a member of
ASC. While I have not taken on leadership roles
in ASC or DWC, I have always felt that what
I do best, mentoring young faculty, is something
I am able to do.
Why/how did you get into this field and
why do you stay in it? (i.e., What drives you?)
I began teaching at John Jay College 31 years
ago in 1972. The grant that was paying my salary
at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC was
about to end and the Soc Dept at JJC needed
a last minute adjunct to teach Intro Soc. I'd
never taught before and was terrified about
teaching, but I loved the job so much that I
asked (brazenly, I was later told since I only
had an MA and wasn't enrolled in a PhD program
at the time) for a full-time job and got one.
Most of my work until I got to JJC was in the
area of Women and Work. I actually did research
and teaching in that area until 1992 when my
last book on Black Women and White Women in
the Professions: Occupational Race and Gender
Segregation in the U.S. came out (Rutledge).
While I was doing research on women and work,
I decided that since I was teaching at a College
of CJ that I should do something related to
issues of women and crime. So I started teaching
a course in that area. In 1978, Barbara Price
and I met (she had just come to the college)
and we both taught the Women and Crime course
(alternate semesters). There were no books in
the field and we decided that based on our course
materials, we would try to put a book together.
It was the beginning of a 25 year collegial
relationship and friendship that has been very
rewarding. Not only did we work together on
three editions of the book (# 3 will be out
in July, 2003), but we also held each other's
hands through many college and personal crises
and many joyous occasions.
I stay because I love the field. At first I
thought one had to teach about the CJS from
a very straightforward perspective. That didn't
thrill me. When I realized I was able to apply
my own theoretical and political perspectives
to the work, I climbed on board and felt like
I could make a difference. With my original
work on women and work, it was natural to focus
on women who work in the cjs, I quickly became
more interested in women who end up ensnared
in the cjs-especially women prisoners. My heart
is with women prisoners and I find that this
is the most humbling and fulfilling place for
my energies.
On my last sabbatical I volunteered with the
Alternatives to Violence Project and did work
in both men's and women's prisons in Baltimore
and in Jessup, MD. I wanted to get outside of
the classroom and into the place where women
caught in the system lived and survived. It
was a wonderful experience for me. I became
more interested in prisons in general and began
teaching a doctoral course on prisons upon my
return from sabbatical seven years ago.
I have been lucky to work with wonderful people
at my school. It is very exciting to be there
right now. We have lots of good people in administration
these days, the new young women (and men) faculty
are wonderful, fabulous to have around and to
exchange ideas with. We have just hired a number
of Domestic Violence scholars, for which I and
others have been pushing for a number of years-and
they are finally here!
The things that keep me going are: 1) my undergraduate
students - I feel like I help to legitimize
their lived experiences and challenge them to
take more rigorous perspectives on how to understand
(and hopefully change) the world they live in.
My students are 2/3-3/4 Black and Latino; the
remainder are white working class students.
Many of them come from very difficult lives
and while they often don't have traditional
academic skills, they do have street smarts
that they need to hone to make their knowledge
and action more useful to them. 2) I love teaching
my graduate students because they come from
such interesting backgrounds, have often had
full lives themselves, and many are working
in areas of real concern to me: prisons, domestic
violence, crime and justice, etc. Working with
them is wonderfully challenging and exciting.
(They are, as a rule, much more privileged than
my undergraduate students-so I get to experience
different slices of life with both groups).
I love teaching and can't imagine giving it
up-and as I have frequently said: they pay me
to learn (because isn't that what doing research
and teaching is all about?) However, the amount
of work (4/3 teaching load) is outrageous and
the administrative duties are horrendous. I
am well aware of the difficulties young faculty
have to go through. And while I am quite content
these days as a "senior" member in
my department, I went through some grueling
hassles in my younger years getting tenure (ask
me about my tenure war stories-I was actually
fired at one point!) and getting promoted especially
to full professor. I was often the "first"
woman in my department-like the first woman
full prof (another story!)
How do you define yourself as a scholar/activist/educator?
I see myself as all of these: scholar, activist,
and educator. In addition, I am able to mentor
younger faculty at my school and I take that
as one of my most important jobs.
What are your current projects or interests?
Just finished the third edition to The Criminal
Justice System and Women (McGraw-Hill).
It has a completely new section on Women in
Prison because of my interest in that topic;
we have three chapters on lesbians in the cjs;
we focus on globalization and international
issues. I am working on a book on multicultural
domestic violence. It too is a reader and is
entitled Domestic Violence: At the Intersections
of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
(Routledge). I am doing this book because there
is nothing like it out yet and it is so needed.
One of the advantages of being a senior person
is that I can do what I want. And while this
book will be very controversial in different
circles, I am able to take the chance and put
it out, knowing that there will be lots of criticism,
but also knowing that it is a much needed book-and
others can build from it. While there are individual
studies on DV in different communities, there
is nothing around that looks at the issue from
many different community and personal perspectives.
I have a Bibliography on Multicultural Domestic
Violence which continually is updated and is
available at www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/research/DomesticViolence/.
While I am on sabbatical I am taking a Blackboard
course to learn how to partially be able to
teach on-line (I hope to use it as an adjunct
to my class, not as a substitute for it). My
ultimate goal is that when I retire I'll be
able to live in Baltimore, where my home has
been for the last 10 years, and teach a John
Jay class from down there-with both me and the
students completely available to each other
since we will be in class together with cameras
focused on us-just in different physical locations.
Using distance-learning techniques will help
me in this goal.
I am writing an article on the impact of the
prison industrial complex on women, and focusing
on Black (and Latina) women because they are
most affected by the mass imprisonment of the
last 30 years. I will be presenting a version
of this paper at the upcoming Columbia University
conference on African Studies and Imprisonment
Do you have any kids, pets, and/or significant
partner?
I have one of each! My son, Josh Pincus-Sokoloff,
is 20, a junior at University of Maryland (in
College Park) who has been a true joy in my
life. He now struggles with what he wants to
do as he embarks out into the world as a young
man. We have a 9 year old lovable mutt named
Jessie. We got her from the pound in Woodstock,
NY when we lived there. She is 75 pounds, was
the runt of a litter of 9, and is a very sweet
animal.
My husband, Fred Pincus, is a sociologist,
and has taught at the University of Maryland
Baltimore County (UMBC) since 1968. He teaches
courses on diversity, race relations, and education
and at one time was a China scholar. Fred and
I met at the Radical Caucus of the American
Sociological Association in 1970! He and I both
have books coming out this summer-the first
time this has happened together. His latest
book is Reverse Discrimination: Dismantling
the Myth (Lynne Reiner Publishing). One of our
favorite things lately is going to conferences
in the summers together and traveling as we
do that! Recently we went to Amsterdam and Hawaii
and we hope to go to Cuba this summer. It is
great combining work, politics, meeting people,
travel, and pleasure.
How do you wind down after a stressful day?
I'm not very good at this! But 2 years ago-on
our trip to Amsterdam (and Paris), we started
reading novels. We have tried to keep that up
so that in the late evening when we get in bed,
we don't watch TV anymore. Instead we read novels.
It is really nice. While on sabbatical this
year I have joined a women's reading group for
the first time-I love it. The other way I relax
is spacing out in front of the TV. I wish I
were more creative (artistically, musically,
etc), but I'm not.
What is your most embarrassing moment (if
willing to share)?
There are so many! I finally learned how to
deal with my aging and difficulty remembering
things sometimes. In the middle of a class,
when I am saying something and forget what it
was, I just tell my students that a few brain
cells just died, and we will just have to move
on. They all laugh. (My brother, a big time
lawyer in Boston who is 2 years older than me,
told me that when he forgets what he is saying
he turns it back on his clients or audience
and says "now let's see if you got what
I was saying" Sneaky these lawyers.)
What is your favorite word? Least favorite?
I don't like the saying "picking your
brains." If you want to ask my opinion
about something, just ask-but don't try to "pick
my brains"-Ugh. My dissertation adviser
said I used the word "wonderful" too
often so I guess it's a favorite.
What is one of your lifelong goals or dreams?
To make the world a better place for the more
disadvantaged and destitute in this world, to
strive for greater equality and to expose the
privileged and how that privilege is structured
in ways that hurt other people. And how to work
to change that.
Anything else you'd like to share?
I just want to say that I admire, respect,
and value so many of the people I have met in
the DWC. I feel privileged to have been able
to meet and know so many young scholar activists
from this community.
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Nancy Wonders, Professor of Criminal Justice,
Northern Arizona University (nancy.wonders@nau.edu)
What has been your involvement in the American
Society of Criminology? The Division on Women
and Crime? Other ASC divisions?
I first attended the ASC in 1983 as a first
semester Master's student. The first Division
that I became involved in was the Division on
Critical Criminology; in fact, I attended the
first meeting of the DCC and served as secretary-treasurer
and on the executive council during the early
years of the Division. Initially, the DCC provided
an important space for me intellectually; it
was there that I first met many of the amazing
critical AND feminist scholars who now play
a strong role in the DWC, including Mona Danner,
Meda Chesney-Lind, Marjorie Zatz, Drew Humphries,
Susan Caringella Mac-Donald and many others.
From the mid 80's to the early 90's, I became
increasingly influenced by the work of feminist
scholars; at the same time, I became increasingly
frustrated by the relatively narrow focus on
social class that permeated much critical analysis.
Like many others, I found that many critical
criminologists could understand some of the
intellectual arguments made by feminists, but
they just didn't "get it" (maybe didn't
want to get it) when it came to the micropolitics
of gender and racial inequality. Among both
mainstream and critical criminologists, I observed
an on-going failure to integrate gender and
race concerns into teaching or research, and
a relegation of the service work to women, not
just in Departments and within the ASC, but
also in their home lives. I also experienced
a challenging situation in my first academic
position as the only women in my Department
(though women are now the majority!). It was
at this time that I discovered the DWC.
At the first DWC meeting I attended, several
women spoke about sexual harassment they were
experiencing within their Departments. We spontaneously
organized an open forum about the issue for
later in the day and immediately created a safe
space for women to speak about the harassment
and sexism (as well as racism and homophobia)
they were experiencing in their work lives.
The 40-50 women who attended listened to one
another, cared about each other, respected the
diversity of identities and challenges faced
by those present, and strategized to create
change. These qualities so impressed me that,
from that day on, I became devoted to the DWC.
Since then I have served the ASC as Chair and
as a member of the Student Affairs Committee,
as a member of the Affirmative Action Committee
and Membership Committee, and as a member of
the Editorial Advisory Board for Criminology.
I am also an enthusiastic and active member
of the Division on People of Color and Crime,
and a member of the International Division.
Within the DWC, I have served on the Executive
Council and on several committees, including
as Co-Chair of the Program Committee, as a member
of the Awards Committee, as Chair of the Task
Force on Sexual Harassment. And it was an incredible
privilege to serve as Chair of the Division
on Women and Crime from 1999-2001.
Why/how did you get into this field and
why do you stay in it? (i.e., What drives you?)
In the 1970's, my mom became the first women
ever admitted into a correctional facility as
a regular worker in the State of Michigan. Because
she was a librarian, she would bring home books
on race relations, poverty, incarceration and
other social issues. My mother left her first
position after experiencing sexual harassment
directed toward her, not by the prisoners, but
by the superintendent of the prison. My stepfather
served 10 years in prison and, as an African
American man, faced profound cultural discrimination
that played a role in his experience with the
"justice" system and shaped my early
perceptions of the social world. Because of
these early influences, by the time I was a
teen, I knew that I wanted to work to effect
change in the justice system, but especially
to reduce the deep inequities in our culture
that create and maintain race, class and gender
divides.
My mom still works in a prison and continues
to be my most important role model. She runs
a program that gives about 30 long term prisoners
the opportunity to give something back to society
- they make Braille books for the blind. My
mom struggles daily to treat those who are incarcerated
with dignity and respect and to provide them
with meaningful work. She often works seven
days a week to ensure that the men won't be
trapped in their cells on the weekend. Her work
humbles me. But we both agree that it would
be better if we could simply reduce our culture's
reliance on incarceration. I believe deeply
that education and the written word can play
a significant role in creating social change,
so I write and teach as a strategy to motivate
others to reduce inequality and to further the
broad goal of social justice for all.
How do you define yourself as a scholar/activist/educator?
I am first of all an activist. Deeply and passionately.
For me, teaching and scholarly work (and other
activities) are vehicles for my activism for
social justice. I absolutely love watching others
arrive at new understandings of the social world
and am very, very passionate about teaching
for empowerment. It is not enough for people
to know more, they need to know how to use what
they know for social change. I work hard to
help students develop greater knowledge AND
practical skills for action. I also love the
written word, and though I am somewhat discouraged
about the disciplinary quality of scholarly
writing (generally, the more narrow the audience
the more valued it is!!?!), I do believe that
advancing theory and research is valuable.
Recently, I have begun to seek out more diverse
venues for written and expressive work on social
justice. In addition to traditional outlets,
my writing has recently turned toward songs,
poetry, and theater. I'm currently assisting
a playwright who has written an original script
based on interviews with women who have killed
their abusers and I recently participated in
staged readings of the script both locally and
in LA. In the fall, I will direct a play on
stalking at our local community theater. I am
constantly searching for more effective ways
to educate and motivate a broad public to care
about social inequality and social justice.
What are your current projects or interests?
Most of my scholarly work to date has focused
on the relationship between inequality and (in)justice
with the U.S.. This has included research on
difference (gender, race and class) and justice,
feminist and postmodern theory, social class
and justice (especially corporate crime and
regulatory law), age inequality and justice
(especially focusing on school violence), and
inequality in the justice system (especially
in law, sentencing and incarceration).
My current work explores the impact of globalization
(and the inequalities associated with globalization)
on social justice, both here and abroad. Some
of my most recent publications address the link
between globalization and sex tourism, as well
as the disproportionate impact of globalization
on women. Along with my dear friend and frequent
co-author Mona Danner, I have also been focusing
on the way that globalization is re-shaping
U.S. justice policy and is exacerbating existing
inequalities of race, gender and class. I am
just beginning research on the impact of new
technologies (particularly technologies of surveillance
and digital communication) for creating new
inequalities and new injustices across the globe.
In the classroom, I am involved in a variety
of service learning initiatives that provide
students with activist skills. The last two
years, my classes have received Northern Arizona
University's Service Learning Award for work
they have done in the local community. I am
very proud of their willingness to use what
they are learning to achieve social change.
Do you have any kids, pets, and/or significant
partner?
I live with my soul mate and best friend, Fred
Solop. We met during graduate school at Rutgers.
He is one of the best feminists I know, as well
as an amazingly intelligent and progressive
political scientist. He currently serves as
Director of the Social Research Laboratory at
NAU. His primary research interests are social
movements, citizen participation and digital
democracy. We have published together, played
together, parented together, and protested together.
It is such a gift to live with someone who is
exactly the same age, has exactly the same job,
and who shares absolutely equally in all household
tasks, parenting, and the bittersweet joys of
everyday life. Our offices are four doors apart
and I still can't get enough of him!
Our son Aaron is 12 - he loves to read, performs
in theater, plays chess, is a great student,
is a genuine social butterfly among his friends,
and still tells me (and his dad) that he loves
us every day. Our daughter, Brooke, turns 21
this month. She is graduating from the University
of Arizona this semester with a degree in creative
writing, with a Spanish minor. She loves to
write (and has just received two writing awards
from her Department); her current occupational
goal is to be a nonfiction writer who brings
social issues to the masses….the next Barbara
Ehrenreich! She's also a fabulous musician and
is involved in theater and improvisational comedy.
I consider my children to be among my best friends
and favorite companions. I also have several
friends who have achieved family status and
they enrich my life beyond measure.
How do you wind down after a stressful day?
My daily life integrates a lot of fun. Virtually
every day, I make time for an at-home-coffee-hour
with my partner and an end-of-the-evening glass
of wine together sometime after midnight. I
also unwind by being very involved in my local
community. I take modern dance classes and work
out at the health club. I am typically involved
as a director, actor, stage manager (or in some
other capacity) in a production at our local
theater for 2-3 months each year. Some evenings
I pick up my guitar and play a little music.
Other evenings, I go downtown to have sushi,
maybe an apple martini, and then play a little
pool before heading off to find some music that
makes me want to dance. Lately, I've been painting
a lot. I also love to hike both on the mountains
in Flagstaff and 35 minutes away in the beautiful
red rocks of Sedona. Over the last two years,
I've also taken art workshops, participated
in African dance and drumming workshops, and
went on a river rafting trip. I love new adventures!
Whatever I am doing, it is always more fun to
do it with others - often my companions are
my partner, Fred, and one or both of my children,
but I am fortunate to have many other friends
to play with as well. In fact, we often have
other folks staying our house for months or
a year at a time - it makes life so much more
interesting!
What is your most embarrassing moment (if
willing to share)?
Several years ago I sprained my ankle and had
to hobble around on crutches. Of course everyone
asked what had happened and it was pretty embarrassing
to tell them that it had occurred when I tried
to jump over my couch at a party at our house.
(We have VERY good parties). I also added that
the first time I jumped, I made it over just
fine, as did a number of other guests! It was
the second try that did me in!
What is your favorite word? Least favorite?
My favorite words are "peace" and
"justice." My least favorite word
is "war."
What is one of your lifelong goals or dreams?
To matter. To make a difference in the lives
of others. To become someone better each and
every day. To love and to be worthy of being
loved.
Anything else you'd like to share?
I want to thank all of the individuals who
make the DWC my intellectual home, my professional
sanctuary, my inspiration to do more. Thank
you to the women who founded the DWC, who came
before me; I have learned and continue to learn
so much from your worthy lives. Thank you to
all of the young feminists who now populate
the DWC; you stimulate me to think differently,
to challenge myself to know more. Thank you
to the members who have raised the organization's
awareness of the complex identities we occupy;
I am forever grateful for your calls for inclusion
and coalition - our diversity will make us stronger.
And a special thank you to those women who share
my birthyear (you know who you are!) - the '58
connection - you have been the lifeline between
my biography and my professional identity…
and you are SOOOO funny! And finally, if you
are new to the Division and have waded through
my reflections, I want to encourage you to get
involved and to make the DWC your own!
Wishing you - and the world - peace and justice,
Nancy Wonders
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Vickie Jensen, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
California State University, Northridge
What has been your involvement in the American
Society of
Criminology? The Division on Women and Crime?
Other ASC divisions?
I have attended every ASC meeting since 1993
with presentations or discussant
activity at about half of them. I have been
a member of DWC during that time,
but this is the first time (gulp) I have gotten
involved at all. That is going to change, though!
Why/how did you get into this field and
why do you stay in it? (i.e., What drives you?)
I have been trying to figure that one out for
years. I developed an interest in the topic
of crime and criminal justice while taking classes
as an undergraduate. I guess my interest in
the area of criminology and gender in particular
was solidified during my year plus ethnography
of a women's prison in Oklahoma done for my
master's thesis. It doesn't take long - meeting
too many women in prison for the murder of their
abusers, taking the fall for men, and otherwise
disadvantaged by society and life for being
women - to make things click. I became interested
in women and homicide from there and have evolved
into a gender-centered scholar. After reading
Messerschmidt's Masculinities and Crime, I became
quite enthusiastic about examining masculinities
as they affect crime and experiences in the
criminal justice system. I stay in criminology
and gender and crime because it holds my interest,
and I think the research and teaching make a
difference.
How do you define yourself as a scholar/activist/educator?
This is a difficult question as the answer
differs over time (and sometimes over a day).
I am a researcher who seeks to do meaningful
work that improves people's lives. At this point,
that work includes gender study (including masculinities)
that has been so neglected over time. I see
my teaching as providing building blocks for
students to go into the world, as practitioners
or scholars, and bring insight and perspective
to a very one-sided criminal justice system.
If I can get them to see things in one more
way, that is one more tool they have for dealing
with offenders, victims, and suspects in the
"real world." I would love to say
that I am an activist in the old sixties tradition,
but I am not. It seems as though people went
out of their offices and out of the classrooms
looking for social problems to address. I see
them come into my classes and offices every
day, every semester. I feel that the change
I bring to the world is through my work with
my own students and assisting them in dealing
with issues of domestic violence, sexual assault,
other abuse, and other crisis in their lives.
A semester does not go by that I don't talk
with a student in crisis over current or past
experiences like those. Through that kind of
work, and through mentoring students in general,
I feel like I make my contribution and make
a difference. I am hopeful that some of my students
will go out there and make a big splash in visible,
activist-oriented ways.
What are your current projects or interests?
Two primary areas of study right now are sibling
violence and masculinities and violence. In
particular, I am in the beginning theoretical
and data gathering stages to do a gender centered
analysis of men and homicide, drawing heavily
upon the work of scholars like Messerschmidt.
The men and homicide project, if all goes well,
is my next book project. I have other interests
in correctional culture, lethal violence in
general, and about anything having to do with
theory in criminology, especially phenomenological
and gender related.
Do you have any kids, pets, and/or significant
partner?
Interesting question for an interview for DWC.
I wonder how many such questions would be asked
amongst positivist, non-gender oriented criminologists....
I'll answer the question. No kids, two cats,
and a husband who wasn't originally going to
be a husband. We did it for the insurance, and
I have found myself fighting everyone since
to assert that I did not change my name, identity,
or anything about me as a result of getting
married. I am otherwise happily married :) He
is very supportive and is good at typing data
tables.
How do you wind down after a stressful day?
Game show network and Cartoon network. That
is, if I am winding down at all. Mindless comedy
always works. Then there is my Lemmings obsession
too.... I did read the Lord of the Rings trilogy
over break, but I didn't quite feel like it
was winding down for me. I am an extremely strange
person, aren't I?
What is your most embarrassing moment (if
willing to share)?
Just one? There are several I am a little too
embarrassed about, but I guess I can talk about
the time that I completely forgot exams that
I was supposed to take to an evening class at
a satellite campus. It was during my Ph.D. years,
and I was anxiously awaiting word on this job.
I taught at the main campus of Metropolitan
State College, in Denver, and then an evening
class at a satellite twenty miles away. I left
the main campus for the night class and completely
forgot the exams. I couldn't go back either.
This was after
failing to take two required exits to get on
and off the interstate. I was quite out of it.
I had to come up with something to do with the
class on the spur of the moment and confess
that I had no exams for them to take. It was
pretty embarrassing.
What is your favorite word? Least favorite?
Favorite word? Right now, I would say "peace"
for obvious reasons. I also like the word "tenure"
for more personal reasons :) Least favorite...well,
the opposite of peace is "war"; I
also really dislike words such as "can't",
"won't", and the like, coming from
students who are resistant or afraid to do challenging
work.
What is one of your lifelong goals or dreams?
Well, one is about to happen (cross your fingers)...tenure
as a professor at a university. I want to have
a lasting influence on the field of criminology
through my work in gender, particularly masculinities,
and really show the field and society that,
in order to begin really addressing some of
the issues we face, that we have to address
how men experience gender as well. 90% (give
or take) of homicide offenders are men as are
a majority of homicide victims. That tells me
something, and I hope I can help others see
the same thing.
Anything else you'd like to share?
I have been quite blessed to be part of several
good networks in criminology, and I cannot overemphasize
the importance of being networked in the field.
That is a bit of advice to anyone untenured,
pre-Ph.D., or otherwise disconnected. I get
inspired talking with people who share my interests
and have benefited from the advice, input, and
general mentorship of several good friends out
there. That is what is best about academia,
and it is what constitutes true survival for
those of us making our way in criminology.
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