Brittany M. Friedman
Department of Sociology (848) 932-6572 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey [email protected] 26 Nichol Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
APPOINTMENTS
Jan 2019-present Assistant Professor of Sociology Faculty Affiliate, Program in Criminal Justice Faculty Affiliate, Center for Security, Race, and Rights Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
EDUCATION
2018 Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University Committee: John Hagan (chair), Aldon Morris, Heather Schoenfeld, Al Hunter, Pete Simi
2015 M.A., Sociology, Northwestern University
2013 M.A., Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Columbia University
2011 B.A., History and Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Social Control, Punishment, Law & Society, Critical Race Theory, Culture, Organizations
BOOKS
Forth. Friedman, Brittany. Born in Blood: Death Work, White Power, and the Rise of the Black Guerilla Family. Under contract with The University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill.
**Triple placement in Sociology, African American Studies, and Special Series on “Justice, Power, and Politics” (Edited by Heather Ann Thompson and Rhonda Y. Williams).
(*) denotes equal authorship (^) denotes graduate student collaborator
PEER- REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2021 Friedman, Brittany. “Criminal Justice Predation as Necrocapitalism: On Civil Death and Lawsuits to Recoup Monetary Sanctions.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. (Forthcoming).
2020 Friedman, Brittany. “Carceral Immobility and Financial Capture.” Criminal Justice Law Review. (Forthcoming).
2020 Friedman, Brittany and Brooklynn Hitchens*. “Theorizing Embodied Carcerality: A Black Feminist Sociology of Punishment.” In Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis, Edited by Zakiya Luna and Whitney Pirtle. Routledge Press. With Alicia D. Bonaparte, Rose Brewer, Patricia Hill Collins, Mignon Moore, Chinyere Oparah, and Dorothy E. Roberts. (Forthcoming).
2019 Friedman, Brittany and Mary Pattillo. “Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(1): 174- 196.
UNDER REVIEW
Friedman, Brittany. “Carceral Necropolitics: Prison Order & the Arming of White Supremacists as Social Control.”
Friedman, Brittany and John Hagan. “Financing the Supermax through Racial Capitalism and Elite Enrichment.”
Friedman, Brittany, April Fernandes, and Gabriela Kirk^. “Carcerality Quantified: How the Predatory State Uses Consumer Logic to Sue Prisoners for the Cost of Incarceration.”
Fernandes, April, Brittany Friedman, and Gabriela Kirk^. “The Damaged State vs. the Willful Nonpayer: Comparing How States Sue Prisoners for Pay-to-Stay Fees.”
Kirk, Gabriela^, April Fernandes, and Brittany Friedman. “Who Pays for the Welfare State? Austerity Politics and the Origin of Pay-to-Stay Fees as Revenue Generation.”
ESSAYS & REPORTS
2019 Friedman, Brittany. “Initiating Inmates: Closing Rikers Island without oversight will expose thousands of transferred inmates to new violence.” Public Seminar. https://publicseminar.org/2019/12/initiating-inmates/
2018 Friedman, Brittany and Zach Sommers. “Solitary Confinement and the Nation of Islam.” The Immanent Frame: The Social Science Research Council. https://tif.ssrc.org/2018/05/30/solitary- confinement-and-the-nation-of-islam/
2017 Friedman, Brittany. “Review of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era.” Punishment & Society 19(2): 258-260.
2017 Pattillo, Mary and Brittany Friedman. “Monetary Sanctions in Illinois.” Pp. 76-97 in Monetary Sanctions in the Criminal Justice System, Edited by Alexes Harris, Beth Huebner, Karin Martin, Mary Pattillo, Becky Pettit, Sarah Shannon, Bryan Sykes, Chris Uggen, and April Fernandes. Houston, TX: Laura and John Arnold Foundation. http://www.monetarysanctions.org/wp- content/uploads/2017/04/Monetary-Sanctions-Legal-Review-Final.pdf
2014 Friedman, Brittany. “Selective Morality in Legal Discourse: Child Prostitution and the Cultural Evocation of Sexuality.” Pp. 18-81 in Pictures and Mirrors Volume Two: Race and Access to Higher Education in Brazil, Edited by Max Pendergraph. Nashville, TN: Lulu Press Inc.
2014 Friedman, Brittany. “Targeted Incarceration: A Look at Pervasive Inequality and Crime Policy.” Vanderbilt Political Review 6(2): 18-21.
2014 Friedman, Brittany. “Correcting Prejudice in Legal Discourse.” A Contrario: International Criminal Law.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Friedman, Brittany. “Meritocracy and the Economy of Hope for Lifers Coping with Rehabilitative Incapacitation.” Draft available.
Friedman, Brittany and Eva Rios^. “Prison Gang Formation as Collective Action.” Draft available.
Friedman, Brittany. “Surviving the Carceral State: Hugo Pinell and Revolutionary Afro- Latinidad.” In preparation for special issue of Black Scholar. https://www.theblackscholar.org/call- for-papers/post-soul-afro-latinidades/
Friedman, Brittany and Pete Simi. “Symbolic Isomorphism among White Supremacist Prison Gangs: How the Aryan Brotherhood Became ‘The Brand’.”
Kaiser, Joshua, David McElhatten, Brittany Friedman, and Zach Sommers. “Making the Underclass: Hidden Punishment across American States.”
FUNDED ONGOING STUDIES
Friedman, Brittany. “The Subjective Experience of Life Imprisonment Across Race and Gender.” Funding Sources: The National Science Foundation, American Society of Criminology, Kellogg School of Management, Rutgers University Institute for Research on Women.
Friedman, Brittany and Anthony Landers^. “The Social Significance of the Snitch Jacket in Prison Life.” Funding Source: Rutgers University Department of Sociology.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS
2020 Pipeline Early Career Grant, Russell Sage Foundation ($25,000) [Application Under Review] 2019 Gretel Weiss Faculty-Student Collaborative Grant, Rutgers University ($4,000) 2019 Summer Research Institute Fellow, Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network (RDCJN) 2019 Institute for Research on Women Seminar Fellow, Rutgers University ($4,000) 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation ($11,145) 2016 International Studies Teaching Fellow, Northwestern University ($22,000) 2015 Kellogg Dispute Resolution Research Grant, Northwestern University ($8,400) 2014 International Studies Graduate Mentor, Northwestern University ($3,000) 2014 Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship, American Society of Criminology ($6,000) 2014 MacArthur Collaborative Research Grant, Northwestern University ($1,600)
2012 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Columbia University ($1,500) 2012 Graduate Internship Travel Grant, Columbia University ($2,500) 2011 Gertrude Casebier Research Travel Grant, Vanderbilt University ($2,000) 2011 FIPSE-CAPES Federal Research Grant, Vanderbilt University ($4,000)
PRESENTATIONS
2020 Friedman, Brittany. Punishment Symposium 2020: Punishment Beyond Mass Incarceration. Justice Lab at Columbia University. New York, NY.
2019 Friedman, Brittany and Pete Simi. “Symbolic Isomorphism among White Supremacist Prison Gangs: How the Aryan Brotherhood Became ‘The Brand’.” Panel co-chair with David Pyrooz: “Empirical and Theoretical Advances in Prison Gang Research.” American Society of Criminology. San Francisco, CA.
2019 Friedman, Brittany, April Fernandes and Gabriela Kirk^. “Consumer Logic and Predatory Justice: Why States Sue Prisoners for the Cost of Incarceration.” American Society of Criminology. San Francisco, CA.
2019 Friedman, Brittany and Zach Sommers. “Punishing Black Politics with Solitary Confinement: An Intersectional Approach to Racial Threat and Extreme Punishment.” Law & Society Association. Washington, D.C.
2017 Friedman, Brittany and Eva Rios^. “Penal Insurgency and the State: Primeiro Comando da Capital as a Model for Prison Gang Expansion.” American Society of Criminology. Philadelphia, PA.
2017 Friedman, Brittany and Zach Sommers. “The Prison Gang Threat: Examining the Disparate Use of Punishment Techniques in Correctional Institutions.” American Society of Criminology. Philadelphia, PA.
2016 Friedman, Brittany and Pete Simi. “Institutional Isomorphism among U.S. White Supremacist Prison Gangs.” American Society of Criminology. New Orleans, LA.
2015 Friedman, Brittany. “Prison Gang Formation and Organizational Context.” University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology. Madison, WI.
2015 Friedman, Brittany. “Prison Organizational Formation and Environmental Impact: Explaining the Rise of the Black Guerilla Family.” University of Nebraska Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Omaha, NE.
2015 Friedman, Brittany. “The Birth of a Movement: Rethinking the Rise of the Black Guerilla Family.” American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL.
PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
2019 Guest Interview. “Slavery is Model for U.S. Prison Book Banning.” Black Agenda Radio. https://www.blackagendareport.com/slavery-model-us-prison-book-banning
2019 Book Launch Moderator. American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror by Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong. New York, NY. https://peoplesforum.org/event/book-launch-american- exceptionalism-and-american-innocence/
2018 Guest Interview. “Solitary Confinement as a Tool of Political Oppression.” Black Agenda Radio. https://www.blackagendareport.com/solitary-confinement-tool-political-oppression
2018 Guest Interview. “Constructing a Threat: On Prison Repression of Black Politics.” This is Hell! Radio WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago. https://thisishell.com/interviews/1023-brittany-friedman
2018 Guest Interview. “Guarded into Gangs.” Your Neighbor’s Hood. https://yourneighborshood.podbean.com/e/guarded-into-gang/
2018 Guest Interview. “Colonized Minds: The Teaching of Racism Over Time.” Your Neighbor’s Hood. https://yourneighborshood.podbean.com/e/colonized-minds-the-teaching-of-racism- over-time/
2018 Guest Interview. “The Politics of Prison Abolition.” Think Outside the Cage KPFK 90.7 Los Angeles.
TEACHING
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Sociology of Incarceration, Graduate Course in Sociology *Counts toward Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies Criminology, Undergraduate Course in Sociology Riots and Rebellions, Undergraduate Course in Criminal Justice Prisons and Prisoners, Undergraduate Course in Criminal Justice
Northwestern University Criminal Organizations in International and Comparative Perspective, Undergraduate Course in International Studies
SERVICE
External Reviewer (as requested): American Journal of Sociology, Criminology, Law & Society Review, Sociological Forum, and Columbia University Press
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Faculty Advisory Committee: Angela Davis Exhibition (2020), Zimmerli Art Museum Gretel Weiss Faculty-Graduate Student Collaborative Grant (2019-2020), Department of Sociology Undergraduate Research Assistant Mentor (2019-2020), Department of Sociology Executive Committee (2019-2020), Department of Sociology Colloquium Committee (2019-2020), Department of Sociology Social Media Committee (2018-2019), Department of Sociology
Northwestern University Co-founder and co-chair of the Crime, Law, and Society Workshop (2016-2017), Department of Sociology Co-president of the Sociology Graduate Students Association (2015-2016), Department of Sociology
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Sociological Association American Society of Criminology Law & Society Association