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faculty
Vanessa Lovelace, PhD she/her
Assistant Professor
Crime & Justice Studies
Contact
508-999-8266
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Liberal Arts 399D
Education
| 2017 | University of Connecticut | PhD Political Science (Feminist Studies) |
| 2011 | University of Connecticut | MA Political Science |
| 2008 | University of California-Santa Cruz | BA Legal Studies |
Teaching
- Crime and Justice Studies
- Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Black Studies
- Political Theory
- Law and Society
Teaching
Programs
Programs
- Black Studies
- Crime & Justice Studies BA
- Crime & Justice Studies Pre-Law
- Urban Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies BA
Teaching
Courses
Examines Crime and Justice Studies as a multidisciplinary field of study that bridges criminology, criminal justice, and justice studies. Students engage with a variety of histories, policies, procedures, and politics that inform how crime and justice are constructed within U.S. transnational and intersectional contexts. Areas of analysis include state-making, citizenship, social control, criminality, surveillance and security, war, rights and law, revolution, prison writing, nonviolence, collective justice, and abolitionism.
An introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research design and analysis. The goal of the course is to help students become competent at conducting and critiquing social research.
An introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research design and analysis. The goal of the course is to help students become competent at conducting and critiquing social research.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
Investigation of problems in the sociology of law, including lawmaking processes; administration justice and correctional systems. Comparative analysis of legal systems and their administration. Cross-listed as CJS 340.
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A study of sociological theorists. Designed to teach the theoretical foundations necessary for the critical study of crime and justice, the course will cover a range of theories focusing on those that assist in a critique of problems of power in matters of crime and justice.
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Research
Research interests
- Black Geographies
- Critical Race Theory
- Postcolonial and Transnational Black Feminism
- Transnational Justice
Select publications
- Lovelace, Vanessa Lynn (2021).
The Rememory and Re-membering of Nat Turner: Black Feminist Hauntology in the Geography of Southampton County, VA
Southeastern Geographer, 61, 130-145. - Lovelace, Vanessa Lynn and Heather M. Turcotte (2020).
Immobolizing Bodies of Surveillance: Anti-Oppressive Feminisms and the Decolonization of Violence
Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender: Postcolonial Perspectives, 196-209. - Vanessa Lovelace (2014).
On Ferguson's Protest and Its Occupation
The Feminist Wire - Vanessa Lovelace and Jamie Huff (2011).
Ghost Stories in the Soil: Notes on Place and Research
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 14(1), 154-162. - Vanessa Lovelace (2011).
Book Review: Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 13(3), 475-477.