Criminology, Law and Justice at UIC

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Looking for an exciting elective or upper-level course? Check out CLJ 493 Contested Concepts in Criminology! The course will be asynchronous and taught by Dr. Susila Gurusami. Both graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to register!

A new article from CLJ faculty member Dr. Chris Maggio is now out! The article, "Prejudice specifically defined: predictors of group-specific racial/ethnic attitudes in the United States," can be found in the Ethnic and Racial Studies journal! Congratulations, Dr. Maggio!

Prejudice specifically defined: predictors of group-specific racial/ethnic attitudes in the United States Post-1965 immigration has led to a new configuration of racial/ethnic diversity in the United States. Subsequently, White Americans have demonstrated more positive attitudes toward certain racial/e...

CLJ Professor Gregory Matoesian and CLJ alum Kristin Enola Gilbert recently published a new book, Practicing Linguistics Without a License: Multimodal Oratory in Legal Performance. Congratulations to both!

“This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech, and other modal resources (e.g., gaze, facial expression, motion) during the presentation of evidence and interpretation of testimony in court. By analyzing recordings of a well-known r**e trial, the authors reveal how multimodal oratory contributes to forensic linguistics and gesture studies, and how it helps understand recent policy recommendations for reforming the r**e trial.”

Dr. Alana Gunn was recently awarded the Elizabeth Butler Award from the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Congratulations, Dr. Gunn! Read more below!

https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/news-events/all-news/2023-crown-family-school-alumni-award-recipients

Congratulations to all our soon-to-be CLJ graduates! The CLJ Department wishes you the best in all your future endeavors. Please follow us on our social media for future events and news!

Commencement Information: https://commencement.uic.edu

SAVE THE DATE!

The Criminology, Law, and Justice Department is hosting an event for CLJ Alumni and graduating seniors on May 4th! Join us to celebrate the inaugural CLJ Alumni Impact Award recipients and our collective contributions. Refreshments will be provided. To RSVP, please click the link and fill out the form!

Link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/cJckBqAto5EDknwF6

When: May 4th, 2023
Time: 5:30-7:00PM
Where: UIC Gallery 400

SAVE THE DATE

Please Join the Institute for Humanities on April 12 from 4:00-6:00 PM for their Fellows Lecture with Dr. Rahim K***a entitled, “Apartheid’s Afterlives: Policing Black Life in the Antelope Valley.” Building from Cheryl Harris’ work on whiteness as property, this talk traces the historical processes by which policing has come to function in the same manner.

More information can be found here: https://huminst.uic.edu/events/fellows-lecture-rahim-kurwa-criminology-law-and-justice-apartheids-afterlives-policing-black-life-in-the-antelope-valley/

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Please join the CLJ Department for a Faculty Workshop on Wednesday, April 19, from 12:00 – 1:00 PM featuring Dr. Danielle Beaujon! The talk, "Requis on the Run: Policing Algerian Labor in WWII Marseille," will focus on Dr. Beaujon's ongoing research. Make sure you register for the event!

Register here: https://uic.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZModOqrqzgqG9S4BPe33G-tOnOe6QvigB3i

The Department of Criminology, Law, & Justice presents:
A Conversation with Dr. Michael Walker

Friday, April 7, 2023, 2-3:30pm
Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.

Dr. Michael Lawrence Walker is the Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Dr. Walker is the author of Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail, which won the 2022 Charles H. Cooley Award for Best Recent Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Indefinite is a transformative ethnography of social life in a modern county jail. Conducted while Dr. Walker, himself, was incarcerated, Indefinite presents a visceral examination of the emotional landscape of penal living from the viewpoint of those locked away.

Last night the CLJ Department celebrated Dr. Beth Richie for her LAS Distinguished Professor Award. If you want to listen to Dr. Richie’s presentations, here is a link!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K63C0e5ylk

Please join the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice for a conversation with Dr. Michael Walker on Friday, April 7, from 2:00-3:30 PM at Gallery 400! Dr. Michael Lawrence Walker is the Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. In addition, Dr. Walker is the author of Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail.

Join the CLJ Department for a Faculty Workshop this Wednesday, March 15th, from 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT featuring Dr. Dean Adams! The talk, “From Schools to Borders: Securitizing a Culture of Care,” will focus on Dr. Adams’s current research. Register here: https://uic.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduGhrDwuGtL3s9lE11oDs9oyg5ooXeuO "

Dr. Beth E. Richie will give a presentation as a LAS Distinguished Professor! Her presentation, “Race, Gender Violence and Mass Criminalization: The Call for Abolition Feminism Now” will take place on Wednesday, March 29, from 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM at the UIC Student Center East (SCE) Cardinal Room or via YouTube. Please RSVP to [email protected] by Friday, March 24.

More Information: https://las.uic.edu/events/las-distinguished-professor-lecture-and-award-ceremony-dr-beth-e-richie/

CLJ Ph.D. student Jacob Reed was recently published through the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA). Jacob's work, "Addressing the Needs of Survivors of Homicide Victims: An Evaluation of the Chicago Survivors Program," can be found on the ICJIA website.

https://icjia.illinois.gov/researchhub/articles/addressing-the-needs-of-survivors-of-homicide-victims-an-evaluation-of-the-chicago-survivors-program/

"The percentage of White people who live in predominantly White neighborhoods in 1990 was 78 percent. It's now just 44 percent. What's changed so much?" CLJ's Chris Maggio joined KNX News 97.1 FM to discuss changing demographics in mixed-race neighborhoods. Listen here:

More White people living in mixed-race neighborhoods - KNX News On Demand New 2020 Census data shows neighborhoods are becoming more diverse. Most White people now live in mixed-race neighborhoods for the first time in modern history. The percentage of White people who live in predominantly White neighborhoods in 1990 was 78 percent. It's now just 44 percent. What's chang...

We're hiring!

The Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, beginning Fall 2023, subject to budgetary approval. The position is for a scholar who can teach graduate and undergraduate statistics and quantitative research methods and strengthen the cohort of scholars who use quantitative research methods in the department.

For the fullest consideration, the material should be received by January 13, 2023. Applicants should go to https://jobs.uic.edu (click on the job board and then click on the position) to complete an online application, upload a letter of interest, CV, and teaching philosophy statement (especially related to statistics/methods courses), and provide the names, phone numbers and email addresses of three references within the application.

Duties: Assistant Professors are expected to teach four courses a year (2 each semester) and support students as mentors and internship supervisors. In addition, Assistant Professors will provide service to the Department and actively engage in research in their area.

Qualification: A Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree is required. The discipline can be in Criminology, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Education, or related interdisciplinary discipline. Undergraduate and graduate teaching experience in statistics and research methods with first-generation students and students from diverse backgrounds is preferred.

UIC is among the nation’s top five most diverse campuses and is designated a Minority Serving Institution (MSI). Located in the heart of Chicago, UIC is a Carnegie, Research 1, urban, public, university. The University of Illinois Chicago is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, national origin, s*x, religion, age, s*xual orientation, gender identity, Veteran or disability status. Members of protected groups are encouraged to apply. UIC will conduct background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and these are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented findings of s*xual misconduct or s*xual harassment and to authorize inquires to current and former employers regarding findings of s*xual misconduct or s*xual harassment. For more information, visit https://www.hr.uillinois.edu/cms/One.aspx?portalld=4292&pageld=1411899.

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Dr. Ermus St. Louis and Dr. Kaitlin Devaney shining at Saturday’s commencement. 🤩 Congrats to all the December grads! 🎓

CLJ PhD grads: Kaitlin Devaney, Erin O'Callaghan, Veronica Shepp, Ermus St. Louis
CLJ MA grads: Nara Bilal, Armeen Shariar

Congratulations to UIC CLJ Dept. Head Beth E. Richie for being named a Marguerite Casey Foundation 2022 along with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mariame Kaba, Derecka Purnell, Dean Spade, Olúfémi O. Táíwò, Sarah Haley, Noura Erakat, Davarian L. Baldwin, and Jared A. Ball!

Watch: https://youtu.be/0sfVBiWd2cw

Read: https://www.caseygrants.org/2022-freedom-scholars/beth-e-richie-phd

2022 Freedom Scholars: Beth E. Richie Beth E. Richie is a distinguished professor of Criminology, Law and Justice and Black Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, who focuses on intersect...

CLJ faculty, staff, and grad students enjoyed celebrating the end of the semester together last Friday. Now, onto finals week!

David Stovall, Professor of Black Studies and Criminology, Law, and Justice, commented on an Axios Chicago story concerning the reduction of violent crime rates in Illinois. Read more here: http://bit.ly/3Ovqg34

Why don't we center abolition in q***r criminology? UIC CLJ alum and bridge-to-faculty postdoc Ash Stephens joins Allyn Walker, Amanda M. Petersen, and Aimee Wodda to explore the question in this new article for Crime and Delinquency: https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287221134595

Our final faculty workshop of the semester is tomorrow, November 30, at noon on Zoom! Come hear Dr. Nicole Nguyen share her research on "Terrorism Prosecutions: The Global War on Terror and Abolitionist Futures." Register here: https://clj.uic.edu/events/fac-workshop-nguyen/

Earlier this month, CLJ faculty, staff, and students had the opportunity to connect during our Open House! Check out some photos from the afternoon below.

Last semester, Dr. Susila Gurusami presented on “Abolishing Carceral Distractions” during our faculty workshop series. Now, her paper has been published! Check out "Abolishing Carceral Distractions: Refusing the Discursive Punishment of Latinxs" by CLJ's Susila Gurusami along with Rocío R. García and Diya Bose in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511253.2022.2139850

On Saturday, October 22, the Prison and Neighborhood Arts/Education Project and NEIU University Without Walls (UWW) program celebrated the second cohort of students at Statesville prison graduating with Bachelor of Arts degrees. The next day featured tabling with dozens of abolitionist organizations and an insightful panel featuring Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and CLJ's Beth E. Richie. Congrats, grads!!

What does it mean to decenter curriculum? TAs are welcome to explore ideas and questions in this grad student-led workshop today at 12:30 pm!

https://clj.uic.edu/events/decentering-the-curriculum/

Prospective grad students! The CLJ grad program is a dynamic, interdisciplinary, critical program specializing in critical criminology, law and society, and the study of justice. The department offers both MA and a PhD programs. Want to learn more? Attend our info session TOMORROW at 11:00 am CT! RSVP here: https://clj.uic.edu/events/clj-graduate-program-info-session/

11/11: Make a wish...and save the date!

1. At 11:00 am, we will be hosting an info session for prospective graduate students. Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdD6ytPgx2eFYW9NISGIdoUQXHOexskNmbmVMEm3r6T4dx92w/viewform

2. From 12:30-2:30 pm, TAs will be hosting a "Decentering the Curriculum" teaching workshop for graduate students. Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUmbG3GBxlTVIGucKXtZ427KY-YeHlAdNw5_LPe7eez6rfrg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Stay tuned for more updates about both events!