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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 303 Islamophobia
- CJS 315 Research Methods
- CJS 333 International Crime and Justice
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
Selected topics in Black Studies. May be repeated with change of content/topic.
This course engages students with intersectional contexts of gendered and racialized crime and (in)justice. Areas of analysis include an introduction to historical and sociolegal processes of racialization and citizenship in the US, empire, and orientalism, pre and post-9/11 Muslimophobia via institutionalized policies and interpersonal violence, as well as examining the refugee crisis, intra-community prejudice, and social justice.
Topics will be determined by the faculty member and will therefore vary.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education 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.
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).
The Global Femicide Problem: Issues and Prospects
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.