I want to start this off by saying that however you feel about leaving academia, your feelings are valid and you deserve the time and space to process them. When people ask me about my own career change, I talk about how it took me at least 6 months even after I committed to leaving to…
Tag: Research
Community-Based Participatory Research and Feminist Criminology: Some resources
At the November 2019 meeting of the American Society of Criminology, it was my pleasure to work with Dr. Julie Yingling and graduate student Danielle Haverkate to deliver a brief workshop on community-based participatory research (CBPR). This workshop was sponsored by the Division on Women and Crime (DWC). In proposing the workshop, we argued that…
New report: “A Pilot Workshop for Developing Early Career Scientists’ Communication Skills”
[I’m about to emulate those recipe blogs I hate by giving you an entire personal backstory before finally giving the details of the report. If you want to skip that — and I don’t blame you — you can find the report right here.] ser – end – dip – i – ty noun…
A Summer Syllabus
I admit it: I am not very organized. I am definitely a planner, but these plans usually exist in my head, on my Google calendar, or on various Post-Its scattered across at least three different working spaces in two cities. I have a lot of big ideas, but very rarely sit down and actually plot them…
Narrative identity and neuroscience
Lately I have been thinking a lot about the “interactive” part of narratives of desistance – the negotiation of narratives with others, positive feedback and “identity verification” , and the role of the story audience in determining which narratives are credible and authentic and which are not. I think that this is a point of…
The risky business of reentry and desistance
“The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” — Attributed to Anaïs Nin, possibly Elizabeth Appell. During my years in graduate school, I became heavily involved in dog training and competition. It was a welcome distraction from the stress of graduate…
Role identities, narrative identity, and change
In the question period of an ASC panel about identity change and desistance, an audience member commented that in looking at this relationship, we should remember that we all change our identities. She rattled off a few examples of her own identity changes, largely focusing on role identities and also on a transition from rebellious…
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
A young man named Michael Brown has been killed by police officers in St. Louis, Missouri. According to eyewitness accounts, Michael was walking (unarmed) to visit his grandmother when witnesses saw an officer approach Brown and have some sort of confrontation with him. One witness states that she saw the police officer attempt to put…
American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2014: Preliminary Program Available
The preliminary program for the 2014 meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) is now available on the organization’s website. The ASC annual conference is one of the highlights of the academic year. Even though it was always a significant financial burden to attend as a student (even with partial funding through my department),…