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faculty
Vanessa Lovelace, PhD
Assistant Professor
Crime & Justice Studies
Contact
508-999-8266
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Balsam Hall 9172
Education
| 2017 | University of Connecticut | PhD Political Science (Feminist Studies) |
| 2011 | University of Connecticut | MA Political Science |
| 2008 | University of California-Santa Cruz | BA Legal Studies |
Teaching
- Crime and Justice Studies
- Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Black Studies
- Political Theory
- Law and Society
Programs
Courses
Examination of the meaning of justice across a variety of contexts. The aim of this course is to develop historical, structural, social, and ethical analyses of justice applicable to contemporary social issues, institutional case studies, and social processes. Contradictions between theory and practice are highlighted.
Examination of the meaning of justice across a variety of contexts. The aim of this course is to develop historical, structural, social, and ethical analyses of justice applicable to contemporary social issues, institutional case studies, and social processes. Contradictions between theory and practice are highlighted.
Work experience at an elective level supervised for academic credit by a faculty member in an appropriate academic field. Conditions and hours to be arranged. Graded CR/NC. For specific procedures and regulations, see section of catalogue on Other Learning Experiences.
Directed readings and analysis in selected topics.
Online and Continuing Education Courses
Investigation of problems in the sociology of law, including lawmaking processes; administration justice and correctional systems. Comparative analysis of legal systems and their administration.
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
- Black Geographies
- Critical Race Theory
- Postcolonial and Transnational Black Feminism
- Transnational Justice
Select publications
- Lovelace, Vanessa Lynn (2021).
The Rememory and Re-membering of Nat Turner: Black Feminist Hauntology in the Geography of Southampton County, VA
Southeastern Geographer, 61, 130-145. - Lovelace, Vanessa Lynn and Heather M. Turcotte (2020).
Immobolizing Bodies of Surveillance: Anti-Oppressive Feminisms and the Decolonization of Violence
Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender: Postcolonial Perspectives, 196-209. - Vanessa Lovelace (2014).
On Ferguson's Protest and Its Occupation
The Feminist Wire - Vanessa Lovelace and Jamie Huff (2011).
Ghost Stories in the Soil: Notes on Place and Research
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 14(1), 154-162. - Vanessa Lovelace (2011).
Book Review: Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 13(3), 475-477.