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Full-Time
Faculty
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Jane
A. Siegel, Associate
Professor (B.A. Drew University, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania),
is the Chair of the department. She teaches a range of
courses in criminal justice, including the introductory
course, juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, statistics,
white collar crime and corrections. She has published a
number of articles on the long-term consequences of sexual
abuse and on sexual victimization based on longitudinal
studies of adult survivors of child sexual abuse for which
she was co-principal investigator. She recently completed
a National Institute of Justice funded study of risk factors
for victimization of women. Dr. Siegel's book, Disrupted Childhoods: Children of Women in Prison, to be published by Rutgers University Press in its Childhood Studies book series, is in press. CCCS
Associate Profile Email: jasiegel@camden.rutgers.edu |
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Myra Bluebond-Langner, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology (B.A. Temple; Ph.D. University of Illinois), was the founder and the first Director of the Center for Children and Childhood Studies. Dr. Bluebond-Langner is the author of The Private Worlds of Dying Children, and In the Shadow of Illness: Parents and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child, and co-editor of The Psychosocial Aspects of Cystic Fibrosis. She serves on the editorial boards of Omega, Ethos:Journal of the Society of Psychological Anthropology , Children and Society, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Mortality, and is the editor of the Rutgers University Press book series in Childhood Studies. Professor Bluebond-Langner received the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and Society for Applied Anthropology in 1987, the Warren Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching from Rutgers University in 1990, the Charles Corr Award for contributions to the literature on children and death from Children's Hospice International in 1997, the Research Recognition Award from the Association for Death Education and Counseling in 2000, and the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Research Excellence in 2009. She teaches courses on cultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, childhood and culture, and medical anthropology. CCCS Associate Profile Dr Bluebond-Langer is on leave starting Fall 2010 to serve as Professor and True Colours Chair in Palliative Care for Children and Young People at the University College London's Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital, the first ever research chair in pediatric palliative care. |
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Gail
Caputo, Associate Professor
(B.S., M.A., Ph.D. Rutgers-Newark) and Director of the Graduate Program in Criminal Justice, teaches courses on criminal justice
policy analysis, ethics and policy, and corrections. She is the
author of What's
in the Bag? A Shoplifting Treatment and Education Program, Intermediate
Sanctions in Corrections, and Out in the Storm: Drug-Addicted Women Living as Shoplifters and Sex Workers. Her early research addressed moral
reasoning in the determination of criminal punishment. Her more
recent research has focused on intermediate sanctions programs,
with a particular focus on shoplifters and community service sentencing.
She has been involved both in creating alternatives to incarceration
and in their evaluation. She is currently extending her research
on shoplifting. Before coming to Rutgers-Camden, Dr. Caputo worked
at the Vera Institute of Justice as a Senior Research Associate,
at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and at both Texas
A&M and the University of North Texas. Email: gcaputo@camden.rutgers.edu |
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Cati
Coe, Associate Professor (B.A. Wesleyan University, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania), teaches Sociology of Education, Individual
and Society, and a range of courses in cultural anthropology. Her
research has focused on the politics of culture in educational contexts,
and she has carried out extensive field research both in Ghana and
in American inner cities. She is the author of Dilemmas
of Culture in African Schools: Nationalism, Youth and the Transformation
of Knowledge, published by University of Chicago Press.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Dr. Coe worked as an ethnographer for
the Institute for Community Research in Hartford, Connecticut and
the Philadelphia Education Fund. She is currently studying childrearing
strategies of transnational immigrant families, conducting interviews
in both Ghana and the U.S. Dr. Coe is on research leave in Ghana for the fall semester, 2008. CCCS
Associate Profile Email: ccoe@camden.rutgers.edu |
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Sheila
Cosminsky, Associate Professor (B.A. CUNY; Ph.D. Brandeis),
teaches cultural anthropology, food and culture, health and healing,
and several courses on African and Latin American cultures. She
has carried out anthropological field research in Guatemala, Belize,
Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Japan, and has published over two dozen articles
on health, nutrition, and medical practices in these societies as
well as a two-volume bibliography, Traditional
Medicine. She has recently been engaged in research on nutrition
among the children of migrant workers. CCCS
Associate Profile E-mail: cosminsk@camden.rutgers.edu |
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Cindy Dell Clark, Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology (B.A. University of Pennsylvania, M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago) teaches in the area of children and childhood culture, health, and illness. Dr. Clark conducts research that privileges the vantage points of children. Adding to her three prior books and many chapters and articles, Oxford University Press will soon publish her fourth book, a methodological guidebook, In A Younger Voice: Doing Child-centered Qualitative Research. Email: cdellcla@camden.rutgers.edu |
| Stacia Gilliard-Matthews, Assistant Professor (B.A. University of Maryland, M.A. The Ohio State University, Ph.D. Arizona State University) teaches classes on police and policing, research methods, and poor, minorities, and justice. She also directs the internship program. Her research focuses on the relationships that politics and policies have on social issues (i.e., White supremacist group mobilization, police behavior and discretion, and the treatment of victims as it relates to the intersections of gender, race, and social class). She is a member of the American Society of Criminology and the Racial Democracy, Crime, and Justice Network. Prior to coming to Rutgers, Dr. Gilliard-Matthews was a faculty member at West Virginia University. Email: stacia.matthews@rutgers.edu |
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Ted
Goertzel, Professor (B.A. Antioch; Ph.D. Washington
University), teaches the methods course in the program,
as well as sociology of communications, political sociology,
social movements, Introduction to Latin American Studies,
and other courses. He
is the author of six books, the most recent being a new
edition of Cradles
of Eminence: Childhoods of More Than Four Hundred Famous
Men and Women and Fernando
Henrique Cardoso: Reinventing Democracy in Brazil. He
is also the author of Linus
Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics, Turncoats
and True Believers: The Dynamics of Political Belief
and Disillusionment,
Sociology: Class, Consciousness
and Contradictions (with Albert
Szymanski), and Political Society, along with
many articles and reports. CCCS
Associate Profile Email: goertzel@camden.rutgers.edu |
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Katrina
Hazzard-Donald, Associate Professor (A.B. Wilberforce; Ph.D.
Cornell), teaches racial and ethnic relations, African-American
culture, urban sociology, introductory sociology, social problems,
and a unique course entitled "Dance of the African Diaspora." She
is the author of Jookin:
The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture,
numerous articles on African American dance and culture, and is
currently finishing a book on African-American "hoodoo" beliefs
and practices. Dr. Hazzard-Donald will be on sabbatical leave for the 2008-9 academic year. Email: hazzard@camden.rutgers.edu |
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Drew
Humphries, Professor (B.A.; D. Crim. University of California
at Berkeley) and Director of the graduate and undergraduate programs
in Criminal Justice, teaches a variety of criminal justice courses:
police, deviance, violence, and drugs and society. She has published
in the areas of crime, social control, media, women, and drugs.
Dr. Humphries is the author of Crack
Mothers: Drugs, Pregnancy and the Media and co-editor of
Women, Violence, and the Media, a special issue of Violence
Against Women. Dr.
Humphries received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Division
on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology in 2003.
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Associate Profile Email: humphri@camden.rutgers.edu |
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Patrick
McCarty, Visiting Instructor (B.S.,
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, M.A. University of Nebraska-Lincoln) teaches the required course in the sociology major, Psychological
Anthropology, as well as other subjects. His research interests include Native American ethnohistory,
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Joan M. Mazelis, Assistant Professor (B.A., Binghamton University, M.A. and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) teaches introduction to sociology, sociological theory, urban sociology, and social stratification. Before coming to Rutgers, Dr.Mazelis was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yeshiva University in New York City, and also taught at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are in urban poverty and inequality, social policy, race and ethnicity, identity, reciprocity, social capital, stigma, qualitative methods, and the daily lives of low-income families. She considers how ideas about poverty change over time and space and how those ideas affect poor people. |
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Michelle
Meloy, Associate
Professor (B.A., Indiana University, Ph.D. University of
Delaware) teaches in the areas of criminology, corrections,
law and society, and women and crime. Dr. Meloy's research
focuses on how gender plays itself out in the criminal justice
system. She coauthored a U.S.Congressional report on the
impact of the Violence against Women Act, and is the author
of the book, Sex
Offenses and the Men Who Commit Them: An Assessment of Sex
Offenders on Probation. She
is also working on a book on victimization, highlighting
crimes commonly committed against women and children. Before
coming to Rutgers-Camden, Dr. Meloy taught at Widener University,
and before her graduate study, worked as a senior probation
officer for sexual offenders in Illinois. Email: mlmeloy@camden.rutgers.edu |
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Jon'a
Meyer, Associate Professor (B.A. California State University,
Dominguez Hills; Ph.D. University of California at Irvine) teaches
law and society and a range of courses in the criminal justice program.
She has published on many aspects of criminal justice, including
judicial attitudes and bias in sentencing, Native American legal
systems, prison industry and reform, community oriented policing,
women in denial of their pregnancies or who have concealed their
pregnancies, homicide (including infanticide and neonaticide) and
issues in children's courtroom testimony. Dr. Meyer is the author
of Doing
Justice in the People's Court: Sentencing by Municipal Court Judges
and Inaccuracies
in Children's Testimony: Memory Suggestibility or Obedience to Authority? and
co-author of The
Courts in Our Criminal Justice System. Dr. Meyer received
the Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000. CCCS
Associate Profile E-mail: meyerj@camden.rutgers.edu |
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Emeritus Faculty Robert
Wood, Professor (B.A. Harvard; Ph.D. University
of California at Berkeley), retired from teaching at the end of the Spring 2009 semester, after a career at Rutgers-Camden that started in 1981. He is the author of two books and several dozen articles on development, globalization, sociological theory, international tourism, and the use of technology in teaching. Dr. Wood was the recipient
of many teaching awards, including vthe Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence,
the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Outstanding Contribution to Instruction Award
at the American Sociological Association, and the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. Prof. Wood and his wife Monika now live along the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia and invite former students to keep in touch. |
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Kathleen Asbury received her B.A. and Ph.D. (Sociology) from Temple University. She has taught at a variety of area institutions. Her research has focused on homophobia, gay identity, and AIDS activism. She was a co-founder of the Philadelphia AIDS Walk. |
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Robin Brownfield studied in the Sociology doctoral program at Temple University and holds a M.A. in Labor Studies from Rutgers University, from which she also received her B.A. In addition to labor and peace activism, Robin is also a musical playwright with two plays to her credit. |
| Michael W. Chewkanes holds both a B.A. and a M.A. in Criminal Justice from Rutgers-Camden a doctorate in law from Widener University. He works in the Camden County Prosecutor's Office as a Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor and has taught at the Camden County Police Academy and at the National District Attorneys Advocacy Center in South Carolina. | |
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Pamela Clark holds a B.S. degree from Fairmont State University in West Virginia and a M.S.W. from Rutgers University. She joined the Rutgers-Camden Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) staff in 2006 and taught Human Services and Sociology courses at Camden County College prior to this. She now teaches a variety of Sociology courses at Rutgers-Camden: Sociology of the Family, Women and Men in Society, and Race and Ethnicity. |
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Richard DeWitt received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, and a M.A. in Medical Anthropology from the University of Memphis. He is the managing editor of Bibliographia Mesoamericana at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Once a dairy farmer in Wisconsin, Richard has done research on racial and ethnic differences in HIV risk factors, the politics of AIDS and homelessness, and on alcoholism and addiction. |
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Robert A. Emmons Jr. holds a B.A. in Communication and Film Studies from Rowan University and a M.A. in Liberal Studies from Rutgers-Camden. He is pursuing a doctorate at Drew University. An accomplished film maker, he serves as Associate Director of the Rutgers-Camden Honors College and teaches at the Art Institute of Philadelphia as well as Rutgers-Camden. |
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Michael Epstein holds a B.A. and a M.A. in Sociology from Witchita State University; he also did doctoral work in the criminology program at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly a research and administrative analyst for the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission and the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts. His past research focused on such things as gang membership and juvenile probation. |
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Frederick Fife is a detective with the New Jersey State Police. Prior to that he was a special agent for the FBI. He holds a B.S. in administration of justice from Pennsylvania State University and a M.S. in Criminal Justice from St. Joseph's University. He has particular expertise in counter-terrorism. |
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Daniel Howard holds a both a B.A. and M.A. in Criminal Justice from Rutgers-Camden. He has twenty years of law enforcement experience with the Mount Laurel Police Department where he is currently an Administrative Lieutenant. He has completed extensive specialized management training programs to include the West Point Leadership and Command, Leadership and Strategic Planning with the Police Institute at Rutgers-Newark and Certified Public Manager with the State of New Jersey and Farleigh Dickinson University. |
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Augustine Isamah earned both his Ph.D. and B.S. at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. For several years he was a "Presidential Fellow" at Temple Univeristy, and is now on the faculty of Montgomery Community College. He is the author of the book, The Social Determinants of Labor Productivity and many articles on child labor, structural adjustment policies, health and local knowledge, and other subjects. |
| Evan Edward Laine holds a BA from SUNY Albany, a doctorate in law from Rutgers-Camden, and a MA in history from Rutgers as well. He has extensive experience as a trial lawyer and has taught at several regional institutions. | |
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Kevin Murphy received his B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University and his M.A. from our graduate program in Criminal Justice, in which he was part of the first cohort. He is chief investigator at the Office of the Federal Public Defender in New Jersey. |
| Cynthia Saltzman holds a B.A. from Bennington College and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University. She has been a research director and consultant at a variety of institutions, and has been active in the American Anthropological Association and other professional organizations. She has published widely on women and work, as well as Jewish identity and folklore. She regularly teaches at a variety of local institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. |