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BROOKLYNN K. HITCHENS Curriculum Vitae Department of Sociology [email protected] Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (302)-898-0553 26 Nichol Avenue www.brooklynnhitchens.com New Brunswick, NJ 08901 EDUCATION Present Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation: “Coping in Murder Town USA: Low-Income, Urban Black Women’s Adaptations to Stressors in a Violent, Small City.” Committee: Lauren J. Krivo (Chair), Patrick J. Carr (Co-Chair), Dana M. Britton, and Yasser A. Payne. 2015 M.A., Department of Sociology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2013 B.A., Departments of Black American Studies and English, University of Delaware Degree with Distinction SCHOLARLY INTERESTS Race, Class & Gender in Crime & Victimization; Urban Violence & Trauma; Urban Ethnography; Race & Criminal Justice; Poverty; Participatory Action Research (PAR); Qualitative & Quantitative Mixed Methods ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2021- Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park 2020-2021 Post-doctoral Fellow Departments of African American Studies and Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park 2019–Present Project Director Center for Court Innovation, National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR) Research Site: Baltimore, Maryland 2017–Present Inclusive Excellence Project Coordinator Office of the Vice Provost, Dr. Carol E. Henderson, University of Delaware Graduate College, Dr. Douglas Doren, University of Delaware 2015–18 Teaching Assistant (TA) Department of Sociology, Rutgers University BOOK (*denotes equal authorship) *Under Contract. Payne, Yasser A., Darryl L. Chambers, and Brooklynn K. Hitchens. Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Hitchens, Brooklynn K. 2019. “Girl Fights and the Online Media Construction of Black Female Violence and Sexuality.” Feminist Criminology 14(2): 173-197. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1557085117723705 • 2018 Graduate Student Paper Award, Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) Hitchens 1 • 2018 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University Hitchens, Brooklynn K., Patrick J. Carr, and Susan Clampet-Lundquist. 2018. “The Context for Legal Cynicism: Urban Young Women’s Experiences with Policing in Low-Income, High-Crime Neighborhoods.” Race & Justice 8(1): 27-50. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2153368717724506 *Payne, Yasser A., Brooklynn K. Hitchens, and Darryl L. Chambers. 2017. “‘Why I Can’t Stand Out in Front of My House?’” Street Identified Black Youth and Young Adult’s Negative Encounters with Police.” Sociological Forum 32(4): 874-895. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/socf.12380 Hitchens, Brooklynn K. and Yasser A. Payne. 2017. “Brenda’s Got a Baby: Black Single Motherhood and Street Life as a Site of Resilience in Wilmington, Delaware.” Journal of Black Psychology 43(1): 50-76. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0095798415619260 BOOK CHAPTERS Hitchens, K. Brooklynn and Yasser A. Payne. “Revisiting Brenda’s Got a Baby: Black Motherhood, Families, and Structural Violence in the Streets.” Afrikan American Women: Living at the Crossroads of Race, Gender, Class, and Culture (2nd edition), edited by H. Jackson-Lowman. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing. (Forthcoming). UNDER REVIEW *Friedman, Brittany and Brooklynn K. Hitchens. “Theorizing Embodying Carcerality: A Black Feminist Sociology of Punishment.” Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis, edited by Z. Luna and W. Pirtle. New York: Routledge Press. (Revise & Resubmit). *Hayes, Endia, Ashley Hollingshead, Jomaira Salas, and Brooklynn K. Hitchens. “Nothing About Us, Without Us: Reinscribing Black Feminism in Sociology.” Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis, edited by Z. Luna and W. Pirtle. New York: Routledge Press. (Revise & Resubmit). REPORTS, ESSAYS, AND OTHER WRITING Philpotts, Cimone and Brooklynn K. Hitchens. “Building People Power: The 2020 Delaware Main Street Marshall Report.” Wilmington, Delaware: Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League. (Forthcoming). Hitchens, Brooklynn K. 2018. “Violence and Crime.” Pp. 23-24 in The State of Our Union: Black Women and Girls in Delaware. National Coalition for 100 Black Women Inc., Delaware Chapter (NC100BW-DE). https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/6da21d_0ceef403a2444ca7a4ff4ab8a2ecb163.pdf Hitchens, Brooklynn K. 2017. “Contextualizing Police Use of Force and Black Vulnerability: A Response to Whitesel.” Sociological Forum 32(2): 434-438. (Invited). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/socf.12338 MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS Hitchens, Brooklynn K. “I Never Thought I’d Get That Call: Reverberations of Violence and Crime in a Small City” (in preparation). Hitchens, Brooklynn K. “‘It’s Hectic!’ Small Cities, Community Tensions, and Socio-Spatial Proximity to Violence” (in preparation). Hitchens, Brooklynn K. “Toward a Typology of Black Women in the Streets: Theoretical Dimensions of Street Hitchens 2 Life as a Racial, Socio-Cultural, and Gendered Identity” (in preparation). Hitchens, Brooklynn K. “Structural Violence, Lived Experience, and the Embodiment of Street Identity in Urban Black Women” (in preparation). FELLOWSHIPS 2019–Present American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000) 2019 Ford Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention 2018–19 American Society of Criminology (ASC) Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity ($6,000) 2018–19 University and Louis Bevier Dissertation Fellowship, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University ($25,000) 2018–19 American Sociological Association (ASA) Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) ($18,000) 2018 Honors College Teaching Fellowship, The Honors College, Rutgers University ($5,200) 2017–18 James H. Gilliam Sr. Fellowship, Metropolitan Urban League, Wilmington, DE ($1,000) 2016–17 Rutgers Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (RASTL) Fellowship, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University 2015 NAEP-ETS Summer Pre-Doctoral Research Experience (SPRE) Fellowship, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ ($3,000) 2013–15 Ralph J. Bunche Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, Sociology, Rutgers University ($42,000) 2013 Abraham Lincoln Fellowship, Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago (declined) 2013 Rackham Merit Fellowship, Sociology, University of Michigan (declined) AWARDS 2019 Conference Travel Award, Rutgers University ($1150) 2018 Graduate Student Paper Award, 1st Place, Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) ($300) 2018 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Rutgers University ($500) 2018 Teaching Assistant Professional Development Award, Rutgers University ($791) 2018 Sociology Research Grant, Rutgers University ($800) 2018 Conference Travel Award, Rutgers University ($400) 2016 Outstanding Student Award, Division on People of Color & Crime (DPCC), American Society of Criminology (ASC) 2015–18 Undergraduate Teaching Honor Roll, Rutgers University 2015 Conference Travel Award, Rutgers University ($250) 2014 Conference Travel Award, Rutgers University ($500) 2013 Conference Travel Award, Rutgers University ($200) 2013 Senior Thesis, Degree with Distinction, University of Delaware 2013 Justice & Multiculturalism Young Scholar Paper Award, 3rd Place, University of Albany 2012–13 Student Leadership Award, University of Delaware 2012 Warren J. Marshall Scholarship, University of Delaware ($1000) 2012 James E. Newton Award, University of Delaware ($500) 2011–13 Student of Distinction, University of Delaware 2011–13 Dean’s List, University of Delaware 2011 Poetry Grand Prize, Lambda Delta Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma, Delaware 2011 BAMS Undergraduate Research Symposium Book Scholarship, University of Delaware ($500) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Academic 2019–Present Research Consultant, National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR), P.I.: Elise White, Ph.D., Co-P.I.: Yasser A. Payne, Ph.D. • Funders: RAND Corporation with the Center for Court Innovation Hitchens 3 2019–Present Research Consultant, “Finite Mixture Modeling of Community Violence Exposure (CVE) and Health Related Quality of Life,” P.I. David Chen, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, Christiana Care Health Services. • Funder: Delaware-CTR ACCEL 2016–Present Co-Project Research Director, “What’s Violence Got to Do With It?” Street Participatory Action Research Health Project, P.I.: Yasser A. Payne, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Co-Investigators: Leroi Hicks, M.D. and Ann M. Aviles, Ph.D. • Funders: National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Christiana Care Hospital 2016–17 Research Associate, “Bergen-NJ Prep TAACCCT Grant External Evaluation Project,” Co-P.I.s: Heather McKay, Ph.D., Michelle Van Noy, Ph.D., and Renee Edwards, Ph.D., Education and Employment Research Center (EERC), Rutgers University. 2013–14 Research Assistant, “Empowering Daughters and Mothers through Social Media Project,” Rutgers University (Newark). 2013–15 Research Assistant, “Gentrification and Urban Space in New York City,” P.I.: Zaire Dinzey- Flores, Ph.D., Rutgers University. 2012–14 Ronald E. McNair Scholar, Black American Studies, University of Delaware. 2011–14 Research Assistant, “Advancing Diversity and Equity through Professorial Training,” P.I.: P. Gabrielle Foreman, Ph.D., University of Delaware. 2010–14 Research Assistant, “Wilmington Street Participatory Action