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faculty
Aneesa Baboolal, PhD she/her
Assistant Professor
Crime & Justice Studies
Contact
508-999-8370
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Liberal Arts 399I
Education
| 2019 | University of Delaware | PhD Sociology |
| 2013 | University of Alabama | MA Women's Studies |
| 2010 | John Jay College of Criminal Justice-City University of New York | BA International Criminal Justice |
Teaching
- CJS 190 Introduction to Crime and Justice Studies
- CJS 315 Research Methods
- CJS 333 International Crime and Justice
Teaching
Programs
Programs
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.
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.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
Topics will be determined by the faculty member and will therefore vary.
Engages students with transnational and intersectional contexts of crime and (in)justice, including international notions of justice. Areas of analysis include an introduction to the international criminal justice process, global trends in crime such as trafficking in humans, drugs, flora/fauna; green criminology, war crimes, and more. This course focuses on cross-cultural perspectives on gender-based violence, and globalized understandings of justice including human rights tribunals, truth commissions, grassroots movements, and more.
Engages students with transnational and intersectional contexts of crime and (in)justice, including international notions of justice. Areas of analysis include an introduction to the international criminal justice process, global trends in crime such as trafficking in humans, drugs, flora/fauna; green criminology, war crimes, and more. This course focuses on cross-cultural perspectives on gender-based violence, and globalized understandings of justice including human rights tribunals, truth commissions, grassroots movements, and more.
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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.
Register for this course.
Research
Research interests
- Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Immigration
- Qualitative Methodology
- Intersectionality
- Violence against women
- Inclusivity In Higher Education
Select publications
See curriculum vitae for more publications
- Baboolal, A. A. (2023).
Undercover and Uncovered: Agency at the Intersections: Muslim Women’s Resistance to Islamophobic Violence
Victims & Offenders - Baboolal, A. A. (2023).
Gender-Based Violence in the English-speaking Caribbean: Chronicling Guyana's Progress
International Responses to Gender-Based Domestic Violence: Gender-Specific and Socio-Cultural Approaches, Edited by Diana S. Peterson, Julie A. Schroeder and Dongling Zhang - Baboolal, A. A. (2020).
Performing Intersectional Reflexivity: Conducting Ethical Interviews with Muslim International and Muslim American Students in the Trump Era
Ethics, Ethnocentrism, and Social Science Research, Edited by Divya Sharma - Baboolal, A. A. (2020).
Islamophobia
Global Agenda for Social Justice, Edited by Glenn Mushert, Kristen Budd, Michelle Christian, and Robert Perrucci - Barberet, R. & Baboolal, A. A. (2020).
Femicide
Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law, Edited by Chris Ashford and Alexander Maine
Aneesa A. Baboolal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Baboolal's research interests include gender-based violence across intersecting identities including, race/ethnicity, immigrant, and religious minority status. Her recent work examines how diverse Muslim communities respond to gendered and racialized violence in the United States post 9/11 and in recent years.