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Brittany M. Friedman

Department of (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 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,

2011 B.A., History and Latin American Studies,

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Control, Punishment, Law & Society, Critical Race Theory, Culture, Organizations

BOOKS

Friedman, Brittany. Guerilla: Racial Coercion, White Supremacy, and the Rise of the Black Guerilla Family (currently under peer review at a university press).

PEER- REVIEWED ARTICLES

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. *Featured in Rutgers Today

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UNDER REVIEW

Friedman, Brittany and John Hagan. “Financing the Supermax: A Racial Capitalism Perspective.”

Friedman, Brittany and Brooklynn Hitchens. “A Black Feminist Sociology of Punishment” (abstract under consideration for an edited volume).

CHAPTERS

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.

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.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2018 Friedman, Brittany and Zach Sommers. “Solitary Confinement and the Nation of Islam.” The Immanent Frame: The Social Science Research Council.

2017 Friedman, Brittany. “Review of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era.” Punishment & Society 19(2): 258-260.

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. “Pine Box Parole: Meritocracy and the Social Significance 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, April Fernandes, and Gabriela Kirk. “Consumer Logic and Predatory Justice: Why States Sue Prisoners for the Cost of Incarceration.” Draft available.

Updated 6-14-19 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.”

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS

2019 Gretel Weiss Faculty-Student Collaborative Grant, ($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) 2019 Byrne Family First Year Seminar Research Stipend, Rutgers University ($2,000) 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 *(INVITED)

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.

2019 Leon, Kenneth Sebastian and Brittany Friedman. “Escaping Dystopian Carcerality: The Role of Science Fiction in Prompting Emancipatory Notions of Justice in and Beyond the Academic Silos.” Tulane University School of Law. New Orleans, LA.

Updated 6-14-19 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 Friedman, Brittany. 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.

2018 Friedman, Brittany. Guest Interview. “Solitary Confinement as a Tool of Political Oppression.” Black Agenda Radio.

2018 Friedman, Brittany. Guest Interview. “Constructing a Threat: On Prison Repression of Black Politics.” This is Hell! Radio WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago.

2018 Friedman, Brittany. 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 Democracy and the Carceral State (w/ Kenneth Sebastian Leon), Byrne Family First Year Seminar

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Northwestern University

Criminal Organizations in International and Comparative Perspective, Undergraduate Course in International Studies

SERVICE

External

Reviewer, Law & Society Review; Sociological Forum (as requested)

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Byrne Family First Year Seminar “Democracy and the Carceral State” (Spring 2020), Criminal Justice Program Gretel Weiss Faculty-Student Collaborative Grant (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 Updated 6-14-19