Viviane Saleh-Hanna

faculty

Viviane Saleh-Hanna, PhD

Director

Black Studies

Professor

Crime & Justice Studies

Contact

508-910-6453

508-999-8808

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Liberal Arts 399E

Contact

508-910-6453

508-999-8808

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Liberal Arts 399E

Education

2007Indiana UniversityPhD in Criminal Justice
2000Simon Fraser UniversityMA in Criminology
1998University of OttawaBA in Criminology

Teaching

  • Crime and Justice Studies
  • Black Studies
  • Women and Gender Studies

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

An in-depth examination of the theoretical formulations, social movement contexts, and political praxes for the study of crime and justice. This will be pursued through a study of abolitionism across a variety of historical contexts and institutional and community settings in order to facilitate incisive critical thought on the most pressing social problems of our time.

An in-depth examination of the theoretical formulations, social movement contexts, and political praxes for the study of crime and justice. This will be pursued through a study of abolitionism across a variety of historical contexts and institutional and community settings in order to facilitate incisive critical thought on the most pressing social problems of our time.

An in-depth examination of the theoretical formulations, social movement contexts, and political praxes for the study of crime and justice. This will be pursued through a study of abolitionism across a variety of historical contexts and institutional and community settings in order to facilitate incisive critical thought on the most pressing social problems of our time.

An in-depth examination of the theoretical formulations, social movement contexts, and political praxes for the study of crime and justice. This will be pursued through a study of abolitionism across a variety of historical contexts and institutional and community settings in order to facilitate incisive critical thought on the most pressing social problems of our time.

The internship experience is designed to provide a broad exposure to the workings of crime and justice related organizations, businesses, agencies, and collectives¿including but not limited to advocacy groups, community based programs and organizations, nonprofit organizations, courts, law offices, social service, law enforcement agencies, and research related positions, including academia.  

The internship experience is designed to provide a broad exposure to the workings of crime and justice related organizations, businesses, agencies, and collectives¿including but not limited to advocacy groups, community based programs and organizations, nonprofit organizations, courts, law offices, social service, law enforcement agencies, and research related positions, including academia.  

Topics will be determined by the faculty member and will therefore vary.

Topics will be determined by the faculty member and will therefore vary.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

An in-depth examination of the theoretical formulations, social movement contexts, and political praxes for the study of crime and justice. This will be pursued through a study of abolitionism across a variety of historical contexts and institutional and community settings in order to facilitate incisive critical thought on the most pressing social problems of our time.
Register for this course.

The internship experience is designed to provide a broad exposure to the workings of crime and justice related organizations, businesses, agencies, and collectives¿including but not limited to advocacy groups, community based programs and organizations, nonprofit organizations, courts, law offices, social service, law enforcement agencies, and research related positions, including academia.  
Register for this course.

Research

Research awards

  • $ 149,992 awarded by MA Department Of Higher Education for Transformative Justice Certificate Program

Select publications

  • Viviane Saleh-Hanna (2016).
    Reversing Criminology's White Gaze: as Lombroso's Disembodied Head Peers through a Glass Jar in a Museum foreshadowed by Sara Baarman's Ghost
    The Palgrave Handbook on Prison Tourism
  • VIviane Saleh-Hanna (2015).
    Black Feminist Hauntology: Rememory the Ghosts of Abolition?
    Penal Field/Champ Penal, 12
  • Viviane Saleh-Hanna (2008).
    Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria

Viviane Saleh-Hanna received her Master of Arts from the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and her Ph.d in Criminal Justice at Indiana University in Bloomington. She has worked with prisoners all over the world including Canada, the United States, Nigeria, Ghana and Egypt. Before moving to the United States she lived in Nigeria and worked with prisoners along the West African coastline. Her book, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (2008) is the first to include first-hand accounts about life in prison written by prisoners in a West African prison. These rare chapters provide an in-depth view of the segments of Nigerian prisoners’ lives and struggles that they have decided to share with the world.

Her doctoral research was on Crime, Resistance and Song. Tracing the Cross-Atlantic slave route through lyrics Dr. Saleh-Hanna highlights the world views artists contribute to struggles for justice in Nigeria through Afrobeat, Jamaica through Reggae and the United States through Hip Hop. Her work includes lyrics and music by artists such as Fela Kuti, Lagbaja, Miriam Makeba, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, Spiritchild and the Welfare Poets. She has been involved in penal abolition movements and international gatherings for more than 20 years. Her most recent research and publications have included hauntology and the sociological study of ghosts, historic memory, abusive structural relationships and works inspired by Toni Morrison’s and Octavia Butler’s novels. As an example of this work please read Black Feminist Hauntology: Rememory the ghosts of abolition? Dr. Saleh-Hanna serves on the board of editors for the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons and the African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies.