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KIMBERLY J. COOK, Ph.D. Professor

Department of Sociology and Criminology University of North Carolina Wilmington

601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403

U.S.A. 910-962-3785 (office)

910-228-1598 (personal) 910-962-7385 (fax) cookk@uncw.edu

EDUCATION

1994, Ph.D., Sociology with specialization in Criminology, Family, and Social Policy. University of New Hampshire

1990, Master of Arts (Sociology) University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

1987, Bachelor of Arts with Distinction (Sociology), University of Maine, Orono, Maine

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Research Associate: West Virginia University Research Center on Violence 2007, Bridges Program on Academic Leadership for Women, University of North

Carolina System.

2004, Certified facilitator for Maine’s Restorative Justice programs for juvenile offenders

2003, Sabbatical, University of Southern Maine

2001, Fulbright Senior Scholar, Australian National University, January - June. Research: Restorative Justice Practices in Australia and New Zealand, Academic Host: Professor John Braithwaite

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

2005 - 2013: Department Chair; Sociology and Criminology, University of North Carolina Wilmington

2005 - present: Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of North Carolina Wilmington

2003 - 2005: Chair, Department of Criminology, University of Southern Maine

2000 - 2005: Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Southern Maine (Promoted to Associate Professor effective September 1, 2000. Tenured September 1, 2001)

1995- 2000: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Criminology, University of Southern Maine

1994-1995: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Mississippi State University

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UNCW ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES University Level:

UNCW QEP Topic Development Coordinator (appointed and direct report to Provost), Sept 1, 2010 – June 30, 2013

o Coordinate with our accrediting team in Academic Affairs o Establish and facilitate QEP Topic Development Task Force o Develop and prepare the QEP for SACS Review o Interact with all units on campus as needed to develop our QEP o Result: eTEAL: experiencing Transformative Education through Applied

Learning. SACS approval secured, March 2013. o FMI: www.uncw.edu/qep

Department Level

Sociology & Criminology Department Chair July 1, 2005- June 30, 2013

Departmental budget management

Departmental growth and development leader

Professional Development facilitator

Liaison with College of Arts and Sciences and Academic Affairs

Department organizational needs including schedules, research support, infrastructure, service commitments.

Administrative staff supervisor

Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure processes

Student needs and problem solver

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE (1990-present) Undergraduate

Introduction to Criminology Social Justice Restorative Justice

Introduction to Sociology

Introduction to Criminal Justice

The Death Penalty

Crime and Social Control

Hate Speech

Domestic Violence

Victimology

Sociology of Deviance

Sociology of the Family

Social Problems

Restorative Justice

Graduate

Criminology

Social Justice

Restorative Justice

Qualitative Data Analysis

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Research and Publications

PUBLICATIONS Books: Westervelt, SD and KJ Cook. 2012. Life After Death Row: Exonerees Search for Community and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Cook, Kimberly J. 1998. Divided Passions: Public Opinions on Abortion and Death Penalty Boston:

Northeastern University Press. Edited Collection: Westervelt, Saundra D. & Kimberly J. Cook 2012. Guest Editors: 75 Albany Law Review, Special Issue on

Aftermath of Wrongful Convictions. In-Progress: Exploring how Original Crime Victims Experience Wrongful Convictions and the Aftermath of Exonerations in the USA. Proposal for Soros Fellowship, submitted October 20, 2015. Refereed publications: Cook, K. J., S. Westervelt, and S. Maruna, 2014. “The Problem of Fit: Parolees, Exonerees, and Prisoner Reentry” in Examining Wrongful Convictions: Stepping Back, Moving Forward, edited by Alison Redlich, James Acker, Robert Norris, and Catherine Bonventre, Carolina Academic Publishing, pp 237-250. Baumgartner. F., S.D. Westervelt, and K. J. Cook, 2014. “Policy Responses to Wrongful Convictions” in Examining Wrongful Convictions: Stepping Back, Moving Forward, edited by Alison Redlich, James Acker, Robert Norris, and Catherine Bonventre, Carolina Academic Publishing, pp 251- 266. Westervelt, S. and K. Cook, 2013. Life After Exoneration: Examining the Aftermath of a Wrongful Capital

Conviction. In Wrongful Convictions & Miscarriages of Justice: Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems. C. Ron Huff and Martin Killias, editors. New York, NY: Routledge.

Westervelt, S. and K. Cook. 2012. Coping with Innocence After Death Row. In The

Contexts Reader, D. Hartmann and C. Uggen, editors. Washington, DC; American Sociological Association, p. 410 – 417. (reprinted from Westervelt and Cook 2008).

Cook, Kimberly. 2011 "Presidential Address: Realizing the Promise of Sociology: Going Public and

Enriching Community." Sociation Today 9(1). (available online at: http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v91/profess.htm)

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Kaya, Yunus, and Kimberly J. Cook. 2010. “A cross-national Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 51(6): 423-444.

Westervelt, Saundra D. and Kimberly J. Cook, 2010a. “Framing Innocents: The Wrongly Convicted as

Victims of State Harm.” Crime, Law, and Social Change 53(3): 259-275. Adapted and Reprinted as: Westervelt, Saundra D. and Kimberly J. Cook, 2010b.

“Framing Innocents: The Wrongly Convicted as Victims of State Harm.” State Crime in the Global Age, William Chambliss and Raymond Michalowski, editors. Portland, OR: Willan Publications.

Reprinted in State Crime, edited by William Chambliss and Chris Moloney, 2014. Abington, UK: Routledge Press (2014).

Westervelt, Saundra D. and Kimberly J. Cook, 2008. “Coping with Innocence After Death Row.” Contexts

7(4): 32-37. Westervelt, Saundra D. and Kimberly J. Cook, 2007. “Feminist Research Methods in Theory and Practice:

Learning from Death Row Exonerees.” In Criminal Justice Research and Practice: Diverse Voices from the field. Susan Miller (ed.) Boston: University Press of New England.

Cook, Kimberly J. 2006. Doing Difference and Accountability in Restorative Justice Conferences in

Theoretical Criminology (10:1) 107-124, special issue on Gender, Race and Restorative Justice. Co-editors: Kimberly J. Cook, Kathleen Daly, and Julie Stubbs.

Cook, Kimberly J. and Chris Powell. 2006. Emotionality, Rationality, and Restorative Justice in

Advancing Critical Criminology: Theory and Application. Walter S. DeKeseredy and Barbara Perry, editors. New York: Lexington Books.

Donnelly, Denise, Kimberly J. Cook, Debra Van Ausdale and Lara Foley. 2005. White Privilege, Color

Blindness and Services to Battered Women Violence Against Women 11: 6-37. Cook, Kimberly J. and Chris Powell. 2003. Unfinished Business: Aboriginal Reconciliation and Restorative

Justice in Australia in Contemporary Justice Review 6:279-291. Cook, Kimberly J. and Chris Powell. 2003. Christianity and Punitive Mentalities: A Qualitative Study at

Crime, Law, and Social Change 39: 69-89. Cook, Kimberly J. 2000. Abortion, Capital Punishment and the Politics of God’s Will. William and Mary

Institute for the Bill of Rights Law Journal, 9: 105 - 136. Donnelly, Denise, Kimberly J. Cook, and Linda Wilson. 1999. Provision and Exclusion: The Dual Face of

Services to Battered Women in Three Deep South States Violence Against Women (7):710-741. Cook, Kimberly J. 1998. "A Passion to Punish: Abortion Opponents who Favor the Death Penalty. Justice

Quarterly 15(2):329-346.

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Cook, Kimberly J. and Phoebe M. Stambaugh. 1997. Tuna Memos and Pissing Contests: Doing Gender and Male Dominance on the Internet in Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium, Carol Ronai, Barbara Zsembik and Joe Feagin, editors. New York: Routledge Press. p. 63-83.

Cook, Kimberly J. 1993. "Pro-Death Politics: Debunking the 'Pro-Life' Agenda" in Political Crime in

Contemporary America: A Critical Approach. Kenneth D. Tunnell, editor. New York: Garland Press. p. 49-77.

Miscellaneous Publications: Cook, Kimberly J. 2008. “Anti-Abortion Violence” in Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Claire

Renzetti and Jeffrey Edleson, editors. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Cook, Kimberly J. 2008. Review of Neither Angels Nor Demons: Women, Crime and Victimization, by

Kathleen Ferraro. 2006. Boston: Northeastern University Press. Reviewed in Violence Against Women 14(3):366-369.

Cook, Kimberly J. 2000. Review of Battered Women in the Courtroom: The Power of Judicial Responses,

by James Ptacek, 1999, Boston: Northeastern University Press. Reviewed in Criminal Law Bulletin 36: 447 - 449.

Cook, Kimberly J. 1999. Review of Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in

America, 1972 - 1994 by Herbert H. Haines, 1996, New York: Oxford University Press. Reviewed in Social Forces 77:4, 1676-1679.

Cook, Kimberly J. 1999. Review of Rural Woman Abuse and the Justice System: An Ethnography, by Neil

Websdale, 1998, Sage. Reviewed in Justice Quarterly 16:2 Cook, Kimberly J. 1999. Review of Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Law and Criminal Justice

Occupations, by Susan E. Martin and Nancy Jurik, 1996, Sage Publications. And, Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms, by Jennifer L. Pierce, 1995, University of California Press. Reviewed contemporaneously in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Winter: 507-509.

Cook, Kimberly J. 1998. Review of The Death Penalty: A World-wide Perspective; Revised and Updated

Edition by Roger Hood. Oxford University Press 1996. Reviewed in the Journal of Criminal Justice 26: 159-161.

Donnelly, Denise, Kimberly J. Cook and Linda Wilson. 1996. Domestic Violence Services in the Deep

South: Challenges to Design, Delivery and Provision Final Report to Women’s Studies Institute at Georgia State University, March 1.

Cook, Kimberly J. 1993. "Pro-Death Supreme Court: The Evolution of Punitive Legal Change" review of

Joseph Epstein and Lee Kobylka. 1992.The Supreme Court and Legal Change: Abortion and the Death Penalty. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Reviewed in Crime, Law and Social Change. 20:4, 181-184.

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Cook, Kimberly J. and J.R. Bjerklie. 1991. "Chaotic Sociology: Random Thoughts" The Critical

Criminologist, summer. Community Service: Cook, Kimberly J. 1986. "Education is the Key to the Future: The Key to Education is Financial Aid: A

Guide for Women making a new Beginning in Education" Published jointly by the University of Maine, Maine Department of Human Services, and the Vocational Technical Institute System.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS 2015, Roundtable discussion: The Compensation Gap: Promise v. Practice in Compensation Provision to

the Wrongly Convicted (with Saundra Westervelt and Tiffany Merritt). American Society of Criminology annual conference, Washington, DC, Nov 20

2015, Roundtable discussion: Lost Voices: Victims/Survivors of Original Crimes in Wrongful Conviction Cases (with Saundra Westervelt and Jennifer Thompson). American Society of Criminology annual conference, Washington, DC, Nov 20

2015, Author Meets Critics session, book: System Kids: Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation. American Society of Criminology annual conference. Washington, DC, Nov 20

2015, Session Facilitator, DNA exonerations from Death Row, annual gathering of Witness to Innocence, Cleveland, OH. October 10, 2015.

2015, Community Presentation: Restorative Justice: Options and Opportunities, with Ms. Wendy Austin. Peacebuilders annual conference sponsored by the Wilmington Police Department, October 8, 2015.

2015, Restorative Justice: options and opportunities, New Hanover County Reentry Council, Wilmington, NC, June 9

2015, Restorative Justice: what works, New Hanover County community and law enforcement leaders, Wilmington Police Department, June 8

2014, Roundtable Session: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States, presenter: Recent developments in North Carolina’s Death Penalty system. American Society of Criminology annual conference. San Francisco, CA: Nov 22, 2014

2014, Session Chair: Thematic Panel: Miscarriages of Justice: Action in the Wake of Wrongful Convictions. American Society of Criminology annual conference. San Francisco, CA: Nov 21, 2014

2014, Workshop Trainer: Division on Women and Crime-Sponsored Journal Manuscript Reviewer Training. American Society of Criminology annual conference. San Francisco, CA: Nov 20, 2014

2014, Doing Gender in Criminology: Still Relevant to our research, our discipline, and our professional lives. Presidential Thematic Panel at the American Society of Criminology annual conference. San Francisco, CA: Nov 20, 2014

2014, Anticipating the Next 30 Years: Feminist Criminology for the Future. American Society of Criminology annual conference. San Francisco, CA: Nov 19, 2014

2014, Life After Death Row: Exonerees’ Search For Community and Identity (co-author: S. Westervelt), Wilmington Kiwanis Club, Wilmington, NC: August 20, 2014

2013, The Problem of Fit: Parolees, Exonerees, and Prisoner Reentry (with S. Westervelt and S. Maruna). American Society of Criminology annual conference. Atlanta, GA: November 2013.

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2013, Author Meets Critics Session for Life After Death Row: Exonerees Search for Community and Identity, 2012, Rutgers University Press. Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY: August 2013.

2013, Aftermath: Facing the Challenges of Life After Exoneration. Innocence Network annual conference, Charlotte, NC. April 19, 2013.

2013, Author Meets Critics Session for Life After Death Row: Exonerees Search for Community and Identity, 2012 Rutgers University Press. North Carolina Sociological Association annual conference, Wilmington, NC. February 22, 2013.

2012, Author Meets Critics Session for Life After Death Row: Exonerees Search for Community and Identity, 2012 Rutgers University Press. American Society of Criminology annual conference, Chicago, IL. November 17, 2012. Author.

2012, Workshop Speaker: Navigating the Academic Job Market and/or Tenure Process for Scholar/Activists, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Denver, CO, August 18, 2012

2011, Discussant for panel: Miscarriages of Justice II: Aftermath of Wrongful Convictions, American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC. November 18, 2011.

2011, Panelist: New Faculty Workshop, American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC, November 16, 2011.

2011, INVITED PANELIST “Conversation with Claire M. Renzetti: Religious Commitment and Social Justice: Evolving Perspectives and Applications” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas, NV August 21, 2011.

2011, Workshop Speaker: Navigating the Academic Job Market and/or Tenure Process for Scholar/Activists, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas, NV, August 21, 2011.

2011, INVITED PANELIST “Crime & Juvenile Delinquency Division - Lifetime Achievement Award Session for Professor Gary Marx” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas, NV August 19, 2011.

2011, Presidential Address : Realizing the Promise of Sociology: Going Public and Enriching Community, at the North Carolina Sociological Association Annual conference: Wrightsville Beach, NC. February 18.

2010, Panel chair, Author Meets Critics: Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women, James Ptacek, editor. American Society of Criminology conference. San Francisco, CA. November 18.

2010, Workshop Leader: Feminist Theory in Action, American Society of Criminology conference. San Francisco, CA. November 16.

2009, INVITED, “Life After Death Row: A Needs Based Analysis of Life Post-Exoneration” (with Saundra D. Westervelt), Vera Institute of Justice, New York, NY. Dec 4.

2009, INVITED PANELIST “New Faculty Workshop” American Society of Criminology conference. Philadelphia, PA. November 5.

2009, INVITED Seminar Presentation: “Framing Innocents: The Wrongly Convicted As Victims of State Harm” (with Saundra D. Westervelt) Australian National University, Canberra (ACT) Australia. July 9

2009, INVITED Seminar Presentation: “Framing Innocents: The Wrongly Convicted As Victims of State Harm” (with Saundra D. Westervelt) Griffith University, Brisbane (QLD) Australia. July 22

2009, INVITED GUEST LECTURE “Life After Death Row: Post-Release needs of Death Row Exonerees” (with Saundra D. Westervelt) . Guest Lecture in “Sociology of Crime and Punishment” class, Professor Lynn Chancer, Princeton University; Princeton, NJ. April 27.

2009, INVITED CONFERENCE PRESENTATION “Programming Public Sociology into the Curriculum” at Eastern Sociological Society annual conference. Baltimore, MD. March 21.

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2008, INVITED PANELIST “New Faculty Workshop” Presented at the American Society of Criminology conference. St. Louis, MO. November 13.

2008, INVITED PRESENTER “Academic Street Smarts for Professional M.A. Students in Sociology” (jointly presented with Dr. Leslie Hossfeld) at the Chairs Conference of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA July 31.

2008, “Negotiating the Academic Job Market” workshop facilitator. Presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, July 31.

2008, “Life After Death Row: A Needs-Based Analysis of Life Post-Exoneration” at Leading into New Communities, LINC. Wilmington, NC July 9. (with Saundra D. Westervelt).

2008, “Framing Innocents: The Wrongly Convicted as Victims of State Harm” at a conference on State Crime in the Global Age. May 29, 30. Onati, Spain.

2007, “Life After Death Row: A Needs-Based Analysis of Life Post-Exoneration” (with Saundra Westervelt) at the American Society of Criminology annual conference, November 14 -17, Atlanta, GA.

2007, “What’s it all about, ASC? Futurecasting and Criminology” (with Stephen Mugford) at the American Society of Criminology annual conference, November 14 -17, 2007. Atlanta, GA. 2007, “Life After Death Row for Exonerees” Kiwanis Club lecture series, Lexington, NC, June 14

(Westervelt presenting). 2007, “Life After Death Row for Exonerees” Friends Society, Greensboro, NC. June 12 (Westervelt

presenting). 2007, “Death of Innocents Public Lecture on Death Row Exonerations” Carrboro Public Library,

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Summer Reading Program. June 4 (with Saundra Westervelt).

2007, “Life After Death Row: Coping with a Wrongful Capital Conviction” Alamance County Community College, public lecture series, April 17. (Westervelt presenting).

2007, “Life After Death Row: Recovering from a Wrongful Capital Conviction” (with Saundra Westervelt) Miscarriages of Justice Conference, University of Central Missouri, February 19.

2006, “Life after Death Row: Coping with a Wrongful Capital Conviction” (co-author Saundra D. Westervelt). Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. University of North Carolina Wilmington, November 14.

2006, “Feminist Methods in Theory and Practice: Examining the Post-Exoneration Lives of Death Row Exonerees” (with Saundra D. Westervelt) at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Los Angeles; November 4.

2006, “Life After Death Row: Recovering from a Wrongful Capital Conviction” People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, Greensboro, NC. October 16 (Westervelt presenting).

2006, “Life after Death Row: Recovering from a Wrongful Capital Conviction”, Law and Society class, Department of Sociology, Furman University. May 15. (Westervelt presenter).

2005, “Life after Death Row: Coping Strategies of Death Row Exonerees” (with Saundra D. Westervelt) at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Toronto; November 17.

2005, The IRB: A Sociologist’s View from the Inside at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Toronto; November 16.

2005, “Life after Death Row: Life Stories of Innocents Released from Death Row” (co-author: Saundra D. Westervelt) College Day, University of North Carolina Wilmington, November 12.

2005. “Life after Death Row: Recovering from a Wrongful Capital Conviction.” (with Saundra D. Westervelt) Wrongful Conviction class, Duke University School of Law. November 7.

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2005, “From SASH to ICASH: 14 Years of Scholar-Activism against sexual harassment” at the International Coalition Against Sexual Harassment conference, August 14.

2005, “From Battered Woman to Professor: a Tribute to the Movement” at the Society for the Study of Social Problems annual conference, Thematic Session on the Unintended Consequences of the Battered Women’s Movement. Session organizer: Kathleen Ferraro. August 13.

2005, “Life After Death: Life Stories of Innocents After their Release from Death Row” (co-author: Saundra D. Westervelt). Department of Sociology, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. May 17.

2005, “Life After Death: Life Stories of Innocents After their Release from Death Row” (co-author: Saundra D. Westervelt). Bath Community/Policing Partnership, Bath, Maine. May 12.

2005 “Ronald MacDonald or Lady Justice? Bureaucratizing Restorative Justice” presented at the Western Society of Criminology, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 18, (with Chris Powell).

2004, “Life After Death: Life Stories of Innocents After their Release from Death Row” (co-author: Saundra D. Westervelt), Tennessee Technological University, Department of Sociology and Political Science Colloquium Series. November 18, Cookeville, TN.

2004, “Life After Death: Life Histories of Innocents After their Release from Death Row” (with Saundra D. Westervelt), at the American Society of Criminology annual conference. November 17, Nashville, TN.

2004, “Life After Death: Life Stories of Innocents After their Release from Death Row” (co-author: Saundra D. Westervelt), University of Southern Maine, Summer Research Seminar Series, June 23, Portland, ME.

2004, “Life After Death: Life Stories of Innocents After their Release from Death Row” (co-author: Saundra D. Westervelt), University of New Hampshire, Justice Studies Colloquium Series, October 1, Durham, NH

2004, “Life After Death: Life Stories of Innocents After their Release from Death Row” (co-author: Saundra D. Westervelt), University of Southern Maine, College of Arts and Sciences, Faculty Scholars Forum. October 14, Portland, ME.

2004, “First Impressions of Life after Death: How Innocents Cope with Life after Release from Death Row” Gate City Kiwanis Club of Greensboro, NC. April 5. (Westervelt presenter)

2004, “The Promise of Restorative Justice” presented at the University of Dayton International Conference on Violence Against Women and Human Rights, February 28.

2003, “Doing Gender” in Restorative Justice Conferences at the American Society of Criminology annual conference, Denver, CO, November 21.

2002, “Emotionality, Rationality, and Restorative Justice: Some Feminist Thoughts? at the American Society of Criminology annual conference, Chicago, IL. November 14.

2002, "Divided Passions? Abortion and the Death Penalty" public lecture at Tennessee Technological University, Department of Sociology and Philosophy, March 28.

2002, "Unfinished Business: Aboriginal Reconciliation and Restorative Justice." (With Chris Powell) presented at the Australian Studies Association of North America annual conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, March 1, 2002.

2002, "Emotionality, Rationality, and Restorative Justice" (with Chris Powell) presented at the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Police, Oslo, Norway, February 19.

2002, Four Hour Didactic Seminar on Restorative Justice for the Kristiansand Conflict Council, Kristiansand, Norway. February 16.

2001, “Critical Reflections on Restorative Justice in Australia” presented at the American Society of Criminology annual conference, November 9.

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2001, “Appropriate Victims? Admissions Decision in Shelters for Battered Women” with Denise A. Donnelly. Presented at the Seventh Annual International Family Violence Research Conference, sponsored by the University of New Hampshire. July 25.

2001, Invited Public Lecture, “A Restorative Justice Critique of Shelters for Battered Women in the American Deep South” in the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. May 25.

2001, Research Seminar Presentation, “A Restorative Justice Critique of Shelters for Battered Women in the American Deep South” in Law Program of the Research School for Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. May 21.

2001, Invited Faculty Seminar, “Abortion, Capital Punishment and the Politics of God’s Will in the USA” presented at the Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. May 1.

2001, Invited Faculty Seminar, “White Privilege in Shelters for Battered Women in the American Deep South” at the School of Social Sciences and Liberal Studies, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia. March 6.

2001, Invited Guest Lecture, “Abortion and Capital Punishment in the USA” for undergraduate students in Justice Studies at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia. March 6.

2000, Critic on an Author Meets Critics Panel, Reviewing: Getting Out: Life Stories of Women who Left Abusive Men, by Ann Goetting, invited by the author, and presented at the American Society of Criminology, annual conference, San Francisco, CA, November 15 - 18.

2000, “Abortion, Capital Punishment and Religious Politics” presented at the American Society of Criminology, annual conference, San Francisco, CA, November 15 - 18. 2000, “Abortion, Capital Punishment and the Politics of God’s Will” by invitation at the Institute for the

Bill of Rights, Symposium on Religion and the Death Penalty, co-sponsored by Cornell University and William and Mary College, Williamsburg,VA, April 7.

1999, “Divided Passions: Abortion and the Death Penalty in the US” at University of Maine, Orono, November 3.

1999, “Green, Purple or Red: Color (Un)Consciousness and White Privilege in Services to Battered Women” presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems annual conference. Chicago, IL, August 7. (Co-authored with Denise Donnelly, and Debra Van Ausdale) 1999, “Divided Passions: Abortion and the Death Penalty in the United States” at University of Wales,

Bangor. May 19. 1998, “Provision and Exclusion: The Dual Face of Services to Battered Women in Three Deep South

States” presented at the American Society of Criminology annual conference, November 11-14, Washington, DC. (Co-authored with Denise Donnelly)

1998, “Punitive Mentalities and the Role of the State: A Qualitative Study” presented at the American Society of Criminology annual conference, November 11-14, Washington, DC.

1998, “White Privilege and the Battered Women’s Movement” presented at the University of New Hampshire, Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, October 8 (with Denise Donnelly).

1997, “The Bitter Passions of this World: Abortion and Death Penalty Opinions” pressented at the University of New Hampshire, Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, January 30.

1996, “The Bitter Passions of this World: Abortion and Death Penalty Opinions” presented at the American Society of Criminology annual conference, November 23. Chicago, IL.

1995, “Punitive Attitudes and Anti-Abortion Opinions in the United States” presented at the American Sociological Society, August 22, Washington, DC.

1994, "Cradled in Punitiveness: Abortion Opponents, Death Penalty Supporters and the Politics of God's Will." presented at the American Society of Criminology, Miami November 9, 1994

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1994, "Praying for Punishment: Religion and Punitive Attitudes in the United States." presented at the American Society of Criminology, Miami, November 12, 1994 1993, "Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Challenging Traditional Criminology" Presentation at the

American Society of Criminology, Phoenix, AZ. October 28. 1993, "It's a Man's World, or is it? The contributions of Feminism for World Systems Theory"

Roundtable presentation at the American Sociological Association, Miami, August 1993, "Male Criminality and the culture of entitlement: The intersections of Race and Class" Roundtable

presentation at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Miami, August 1992, "Pro-death Policies: The Deadly Consequences of Criminalized Abortion." Presented at the

American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, LA. November 7. 1992, Sociologists Against Sexual Harassment: An Conference for Action. A conference presented at the

Society for the Study of Social Problems, Pittsburgh, PA, August 20. 1991, Public Support for the Death Penalty: A Cultural Analysis. Presented at the American Society of

Criminology, San Francisco, CA, November 20. 1991, Pro-Death Policies? The Punitive Correlates of Anti-Abortion Legislation. Presented at the National Council on Family Relations, Denver, CO. November 19.

1990, Cultural Spillover Theory and Violence in the Family: The Case of Military Families. Presented at the American Society of Criminology, Baltimore, MD November 8.

UNIVERSITY PARTICIPATION University of North Carolina Wilmington:

Affiliated with the Women’s Studies and Resource Center

Search Committee Chair for tenure-track faculty hire (2014-2015)

Elected: Faculty Senate Committee: Faculty Hearings Panel

Elected by CAS Department Chairs to serve on the 4th Year Personnel Review Committee for Dean David Cordle (Also Committee Chair).

Appointed by Provost, UNC-Tomorrow Committee for Faculty-Staff Recruitment and Retention, 2008.

Selected to represent Social Science Chairs on the College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Policy Advisory Committee, 2007-2009.

Appointed member of the College of Arts and Sciences Search Committee for Director of College Assessment, 2006 – 2007, 2007-2008.

Appointed member of the Academic Affairs Search Committee for Vice Chancellor for Faculty Development and Support, 2007.

Appointed member of the Constitution Day Steering Committee, 2005.

Violence Research Group, College of Arts and Sciences, 2005 – 2006.

Faculty Senator for the Department of Sociology and Criminology, 2005 – 2009. University of Southern Maine:

Elected Departmental Chairperson, 2003 - 2005.

Appointed by the Provost to the Institutional Review Board, 2003 - 2004.

Elected at large, College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Search Committee, 2001 - 2002.

College of Arts and Sciences, Faculty Colloquium Series Committee, Founding Chairperson, 1998-2000, committee member, 2001 - 2002.

Women’s Studies Council, 1998 - 2000.

Department Library Liaison, 1998-2000.

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Department Representative to Curriculum Review Committee for the College of Arts and Sciences, 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 2000 (fall semester).

Department Representative to Project 100, College of Arts and Sciences, 1996-1997, 1997-1998.

Faculty Advisor for Criminology Students’ Association, 1996-1997, 1997-1998.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2015, UNCW College of Arts and Sciences, Research Reassignment for Spring 2016. Project title:

Experiences of Victims/Survivors of Original Crimes that resulted in a Wrongful Conviction and Exoneration in the United States.

2015, UNCW College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Initiative. Project title: Experiences of Victims/Survivors of Original Crimes that resulted in a Wrongful Conviction and Exoneration in North Carolina.

2013, UNCW, ETEAL-Supported Pedagogy Award: SOC/CRM 255 Criminology. To convert the class to an applied learning experience with writing intensive assignments.

2009, International Travel Award, University of North Carolina Wilmington, travel to Australia, July. 2007, North Carolina Criminal Justice Association Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to

Criminal Justice Education in North Carolina. 2006, “Collaborative Research: Life After Death: Life Stories of Innocents After their Release from Death

Row” (co-author: Saundra D. Westervelt) grant proposal re-submitted to the National Science Foundation. Proposed budget: $278,120, Declined.

2005, “Collaborative Research: Life After Death: Life Stories of Innocents After their Release from Death Row” (co-author: Saundra D. Westervelt) grant proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation. Proposed budget: $623,000 Declined.

2004 “Life After Death: Life Histories of Innocents After Their Release from Death Row” (with Saundra Westervelt), submitted to the American Sociological Assocation, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline. Proposed Budget: $6990.00, awarded March 2005.

2003, “Life After Death: Life Histories of Innocents After Their Release from Death Row” (with Saundra Westervelt) $36,780 from University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Awarded.

2000, “Theory and Practices of Reintegrative Shaming in Australia: a Study in Comparative Criminology” Fulbright Scholarship for 2000/2001. Awarded March 2, 2000; hosted by the Australian National University, January through June, 2001.

1999, University of Southern Maine, Provost Fellowship for the First Annual Summer Writing Seminar 1999, Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern Maine. 1998, Maine Campus Compact Fellowship, Problem-Based Service Learning 1998, New Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division on Women and Crime. 1998, “An Implementation Program Evaluation Proposal for the University of Southern Maine’s Sexual

Assault Program” from the College of Arts and Sciences, 1995, Faculty Senate Research Fund Award, University of Southern Maine.

Grant Title: Contradiction, Confusion or Consensus: Abortion and Death Penalty Opinions in the United States.

1989, Central University Research Fund Award, University of New Hampshire (Funding for M.A. research). Grant Title: Cultural Spillover Theory and Normative Approval of Violence in Military and Civilian Families

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1987, One of One Hundred Outstanding College Women Graduates in the United States, for 1987 featured in a national magazine

1986, National Collegiate Social Sciences Award, from the United States Achievement Academy 1986, Outstanding Volunteer and Community Service Award given by the University of Maine Senior

Alumni PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE Editorial Board, Feminist Criminology, official journal of the Division on Women and Crime in the

American Society of Criminology, 2004-present. Advisory Board Member, Project RESTORE: “Responsibility and Equity for Sexual Transgressions Offering

a Restorative Experience” at the University of Arizona, Mary P. Koss, Principal Investigator. 2002 –2006. Funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Peer Reviewer for Special Emphasis Panel on

“Demonstration Projects for the Early Intervention and Prevention of Sexual Violence and Intimate Partner Violence Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations” August 21, 22, 2000, Atlanta, GA. And in July 2002.

American Sociological Association, 1990 - 2014.

Crime, Law and Deviance Section Student Paper Competition Committee, 1998-1999.

Task Force on Sociology and Criminology programs, appointed two year term, 2006-2008. Jointly authored the Task Force Report in 2010.

North Carolina Sociological Association, 2007 – 2014. Program Committee, 2007 President-Elect, 2010. President, 2011 American Society of Criminology, 1989 - present

Division on Women and Crime Elected Chair, 2014-2016

Elected Secretary/Treasurer, 2001 B 2006 Internal Awards Committee, Chair, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Interim Secretary (appointed), 2001 - 2002 Interim Treasurer (appointed), 2000-2001 Executive Board Member, 1998 - 2000 Outreach Committee, Chair, 1998-2000

Division on People of Color and Crime Division of Critical Criminology Gene Carte Student Awards Committee, 1998-2000 Employment Exchange Committee, 1998-1999, 2000 – 2002 Program Committee for annual conference, 2008, 2013

Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1990 - present.

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Permanent Organization and Strategic Planning Committee, 1997-2001 Elected to the Budget, Finance and Audit Committee, 2001 - 2004

Chair, 2003 - 2004

Appointed Chair of the By-Laws Committee, 2002 B 2005 Editorial and Publications Committee, ex-officio, 2003-2004 Chair, Ad-hoc Committee on Long Range Planning, 2003 B 2006 Vice-President-elect, 2004-2005; Vice-President, 2005-2006. Membership Committee Chair, 2007-2008 C. Wright Mills Award Committee, 2008-2009.

Sociologists Against Sexual Harassment (SASH),

Co-Founder, 1991-1992 Program Chair, 1992 Program Co-Chair, 1997 Program Coordinator, 1998

Renamed: International Coalition Against Sexual Harassment (ICASH) Academic Program Reviewer: Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, University of West Florida, 2013. Academic Program Reviewer: Department of Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University, 2007. External Reviewer for MA (Honors) Dissertation in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice,

Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia) 2003. External Reviewer for a Ph.D. Thesis at the Australian National University, Department of Sociology.

1998. Resubmitted and Re-examined, 2000 External Reviewer for Undergraduate Honor’s Thesis at Bates College, Department of Sociology. 2005. Peer Reviewer for the journals: American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Criminology, Feminist

Criminology, Gender and Society, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Perspectives, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Justice Quarterly, Theoretical Criminology, Contemporary Justice Review, Violence Against Women, and Crime and Delinquency, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Feminism and Psychology.

COMMUNITY SERVICE 2015-present: Board of Directors: Healing Justice, non-profit organization, Chapel Hill, NC. 2015-present: Chair, Board of Directors: LINC (Leading Into New Communities), non-profit organization,

Wilmington, NC. 2014-present: Board of Directors: LINC (Leading Into New Communities), non-profit organization,

Wilmington, NC. 2014-present: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; New Hanover County

Chapter, Wilmington, NC. Criminal Justice Committee member. 2004 - 2005, member, Bath (Maine) Community/Policing Partnership, special liaison in Juvenile

Resolution Team and Restorative Justice programs.

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2003 - 2005, Secretary, Mid-Coast Maine Restorative Justice Council. Conference Administrator and Certified Conference Facilitator for Maine.

1999, Testimony before the Joint Committee on Criminal Justice, opposing L.D. 2214, A Bill to Reinstate the Death Penalty in Maine, April 28, 1999.

1999, Testimony before the Human Services Committee, supporting L.D. 1574, An Act to Improve Access to Education for Parents as Scholars Program Participants, April 12, 1999.

1997, Testimony before the Joint Committee on Criminal Justice, ppposing L.D. 1524 a Bill to Reinstate the Death Penalty in Maine, April 29, 1997. On behalf of the Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

1986 - 1987: Volunteer for Spruce Run, Battered Women's Shelter, Bangor, ME.. I was a public speaker for the shelter to raise money from private organizations, among other activities.

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