BROOKLYNN K. HITCHENS Curriculum Vitae Department of Sociology [email protected] Rutgers, The State University of (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 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, Graduate College, Dr. Douglas Doren, University of Delaware

2015–18 Teaching Assistant (TA) Department of Sociology,

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, (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 , 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

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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 Research (PAR) Project,” P.I.: Yasser A. Payne, Ph.D., University of Delaware. • Funders: First State Community Action Agency and Delaware United Way.

2010–13 Undergraduate Research Scholar, Black American Studies, University of Delaware

Non-Profit 2015–16 Undergraduate Test Item Developer, Sociology, Council for Aid to Education (CAE), New York.

2015 Summer Research Intern, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and Success (CAWRS).

2014–15 Field Interviewer & Data Collector, WESTAT, National Institutes of Health (NIH).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Independent Instruction, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University Course: Introduction to Sociology (Summer 2017 Hybrid; Summer 2018 Hybrid) Course: Race Relations (Summer 2016 Online; Spring 2017; Fall 2017) Course: Sociology of the Family (Summer 2014; Summer 2015; Summer 2016) Course: Honors College Forum for first-year students (Spring 2018)

Teaching Assistant (TA), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University Course: Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2015; Spring 2016; Fall 2016; Spring 2017; Spring 2018)

Other Course Instruction Course: GED Prep, Fathership Foundation (Summer 2014) Course: Microsoft Office, AvTech Technology Inc. (Summer 2014) Hitchens 4 Course: GRE Prep, Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, University of Delaware (Summer 2013) Course: College Prep, Upward Bound Math Science Program, University of Delaware (Summer 2013) Course: First Year Seminar, University of Delaware (Fall 2012)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2019 “Coping in Murder Town USA: How Urban Black Women Adapt to Structural Strain in a Violent, Small City,” American Sociological Association, New York City (Aug).

2019 “The Street PAR Health Project: Working with The Streets to Examine Opportunity, Health and Violence,” Free Minds Free People Conference, Twin Cities, MN (July).

2018 “The Street PAR Health Project: Working with The Streets to Examine Opportunity, Health and Violence,” American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA (Nov).

2018 “Street Participatory Action Research: Doing Research & Activism with The Streets of Black America,” Racial Democracy Crime and Justice Network (RDCJN), Newark, NJ, with Yasser A. Payne and Darryl Chambers (July).

2016 “The Use of Victim Self-Protective Behaviors during Violent Crimes as Predictors of Post-Incident Emotional Distress,” American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, LA, with Jason Phillips and Alicia Raia- Hawrylak (Nov).

2015 “Gender Differences in Attitudes toward Police in Three Neighborhoods,” American Society of Criminology, Washington D.C., with Patrick J. Carr and Susan Clampet-Lundquist (Nov).

2015 “‘CNN of the Ghetto?’ Analyzing Black Girls and Violence as Entertainment on WorldStarHipHop,” American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL (Aug).

2015 “‘Sound of the Police, Sound of the Beast’: Gender Differences in Attitudes toward and Interactions with Police among Street-Life Oriented Black Men and Women,” Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), Chicago, IL (Aug).

2015 “Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset among Low-Income, ‘At Risk’ High School Students,” ETS Corporate Internship Symposium, Princeton, NJ (Aug).

2015 “Walk with Me: Organizing The Streets To Constructively Engage Law Enforcement,” Annual Winter Roundtable Conference Teacher’s College, Columbia University, with Yasser Payne and Darryl Chambers (Feb).

2014 “Girl-on-Girl Street Fighting: The Connection Between Black Girls, Urban Street Violence, and Social Media,” American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA (Nov).

2012 “Make the Money, Don’t Let it Make You: Black Women’s Agency and Sexual Capital in America.” • Black American Studies Capstone Conference, University of Delaware, May 2012. • 2nd Regional Undergraduate Research Conference, Delaware State University, March 2012.

2011–14 “Brenda’s Got a Baby: Black Single Motherhood in the Streets of Wilmington, Delaware.” • Black Doctoral Network Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2014. • Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Delaware, May 2013. • Explorations in Justice Symposium, University of Albany, April 2013. Hitchens 5 • 30th Annual Winter Roundtable, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, February 2013. • Mid-Atlantic Law and Society Inaugural Conference, , October 2012. • Ronald E. McNair Research Conference, University of Delaware, May 2012. • Undergraduate Research and Service Symposium, University of Delaware, May 2011. • Regional Undergraduate Student Research Conference, University of Delaware, March 2011.

INVITED TALKS and CLASS PRESENTATIONS 2019 Guest Presenter, “I Never Thought I’d Get That Call: Reverberations of Violence and Crime in a Small City,” Emerging Scholars Program, Department of Sociology, Boston University.

2019 Guest Presenter, “I Never Thought I’d Get That Call: Reverberations of Violence and Crime in a Small City,” Jason B. Phillips Memorial Lecture, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.

2019 Guest Lecturer, “Brenda’s Got A Baby: Black Motherhood in the Streets,” The Family undergraduate course, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Delaware.

2019 Guest Lecturer, “Black Motherhood, Street Life, and Dis-Opportunity in Wilmington,” Street Ethnography graduate course, Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology, University of Delaware.

2019 Presenter, 2019, “State of our Union: Black Women and Girls in Delaware,” Mary Anne Shadd/Senator Rose Henry Program, Dover, DE.

2018 Presenter, “State of our Union: Black Women and Girls in Delaware,” Wilmington Community Advisory Council, Wilmington, DE.

2018 Keynote Speaker, “Mentoring & Being Mentored in a Predominantly White Academy: Guiding the Next Generation to Work Inside Low-Income Communities of Color,” Students of Distinction Dinner, University of Delaware.

2018 Guest Lecturer, “Girl Fights and the Online Media Construction of Black Female Violence and Sexuality,” Qualitative Methods graduate course, Department of Communications, Rutgers University.

2018 Discussant, “Women’s History Month Film Series,” film about queer, justice-involved women of color, Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Delaware.

2016 Guest Lecturer, “Black Lives Matter Movement,” Introduction to Sociology undergraduate course, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.

2016 Guest Lecturer, “Coloring the Carceral State: Exploring Young Women’s Experiences with Policing in Low-Income Neighborhoods,” Graduate Student Visitation Day – Open House, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.

2016 Guest Lecturer, “Fighting Girls: The Media Construction of Female Violence and Sexuality,” Urban Communication undergraduate course, Department of Communications, Rutgers University.

2015 Guest Speaker, International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme, Mount Pleasant High School, DE.

2014 Keynote Convocation Speaker, Department of Black American Studies, University of Delaware.

INVITED PANEL DISCUSSIONS Academic

Hitchens 6 2019 “Maximizing Summer Research,” Ronald E. McNair Scholars, University of Delaware. 2019 “Professionalization Workshop: Developing Research Proposals,” Department of Sociology, Rutgers University. 2018 “The Street PAR Health Project: Working with The Streets to Examine Opportunity, Health and Violence in Wilmington, DE,” Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice, University of Delaware (with Yasser Payne, Darryl Chambers, and Coley Harris). 2015 “McNair Alumni Panel,” Ronald E. McNair Scholars, University of Delaware. 2015 “Criminal Justice Alumni Networking Event,” Department of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University. 2014 “College Readiness,” Mount Pleasant High School, Delaware. 2013 “The People’s Report: A Panel Discussion on Violence in Wilmington,” Department of Black American Studies, University of Delaware. 2012 “We are the 99%: A Roundtable Discussion of Occupy Wall Street and the Crisis of Higher Education,” Department of Black American Studies, University of Delaware. 2011 “The Great Debaters: Bridging the Gap,” Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, University of Delaware. 2011 “I Am Troy Davis: Call for Social Justice in the New Jim Crow Era,” Black Student Union, University of Delaware. 2011 “Preserving the Peace: A Sit Down with Public Safety,” Black Student Union, University of Delaware. 2011 “New Beginnings in the Middle East—Tunisia, Egypt, and Beyond,” University of Delaware.

Community 2018 “State of Our Union: Black Women and Girls’ and Violence in Wilmington,” Mary Anne Shadd/Senator Rose Henry Program, Wilmington, DE. 2016 “Forum to Advance Minorities in Engineering Former Student Panel,” F.A.M.E., Wilmington, DE. 2016 “Black Arts Movement: Art, Social Activism, and Revolution to Affect Social Change,” Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE. 2013 “Black Youth in Wilmington,” Education, Youth and Citizenship Committee, Office of the Mayor, Wilmington, DE. 2012 “Third Annual College 101 Workshop,” Arthur J. Turner Scholarship Foundation, Wilmington, DE. 2012 “Open Forum on Trayvon Martin,” Black Student Union, University of Delaware. 2011 “Road to Success College Panel,” Glasgow High School, Newark, DE. 2011 “Senior Year Success,” 24th Annual Multi-Ethnic Career Development Conference, University of Delaware.

INVITED WORKSHOPS 2019 “Legacies: Collective Work, Responsibility, and the Importance of Community,” Office of Residence Life, University of Delaware. 2015 “The Use of Victim Self-Protective Behaviors During Violent Crimes as Predictors of Post-Incident Socio-Emotional Distress.” Quantitative Applications in Sociology Workshop, Rutgers University (with Jason Phillips and Alicia Raia-Hawrylak). 2015 “Resistance, Activism and the Arts: An Experience in Self-Expression.” Symposium: The Difficult Conversation—Race and Social Justice in America, University of Delaware (with James Church).

INSTITUTIONAL and PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Ad Hoc Reviewer Social Problems, Sociological Forum

Service Program Committee Assistant, 2015 – 2016, American Society of Criminology (ASC), with 2015 President Ruth Peterson, Laurie Krivo, and Katheryn Russell-Brown.

Faculty Liaison, 2014 – 2016, Graduate Union of Sociology Students (GUSS), Rutgers University.

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First-Year Representative, 2013 – 2014, Graduate Union of Sociology Students (GUSS), Rutgers University.

Campaign Assistant, 2011, Councilwoman Hanifa Shabazz Election Campaign, City of Wilmington, DE.

Memberships Academic: American Sociological Association, American Society of Criminology, Sociologists for Women in Society, Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network (RDCJN)

Community: Smart Justice Campaign at the ACLU, Wilmington Under Pressure, Culture Restoration Project, Inc.

Mentorship Mentor to Cynthia Duchantier, 2015, ARESTY Undergraduate Research Center, Rutgers University.

Mentor to Bianca West, 2014, Research in Science and Engineering (RISE), Rutgers University.

Mentor to Kayla Prieto-Hodge, 2013, Multi-Generational Mentoring Program (MGM), Rutgers University.

MEDIA APPEARANCES 2019 Hour-long, Featured Segment, Missing Dad Podcast, “Black Fatherhood in Wilmington,” Wilmington, DE.

2017 Featured on PBS/WHYY-TV, “First for July 7, 2017,” Wilmington Street PAR Project, Wilmington, DE.

2017 Public Service Announcement (PSA), “Delaware Culture of Health Study,” Delaware Center for Drug and Health Studies. Newark, DE.

2014 Featured on “The People’s Report Documentary,” Teleduction, Hearts and Minds Film Wilmington, DE.

2013 Hour-long, Featured Segment, Congo Youth Corner, “Youth in the City of Wilmington,” TV Talk Show Guest, 8PM, Delaware Channel 28, Wilmington, DE.

2011 Hour-long, Featured Segment, Herman Holloway Jr. Live, “The State of Black America,” 2011, TV Talk Show Guest, 6PM-7PM, Delaware Channel 28. Wilmington, DE.

2011 Hour-long, Featured Segment, NewsTalk-AM WILM 1450AM, “The Uprising in Egypt,” Radio Talk Show Guest with John Watson. 9AM-10AM. Wilmington, DE.

REFERENCES Lauren J. Krivo, Ph.D. Yasser A. Payne, Ph.D. Professor Associate Professor Department of Sociology Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey University of Delaware [email protected] [email protected]

Patrick J. Carr, Ph.D. Carol E. Henderson, Ph.D. Professor Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Department of Sociology Chief Diversity Officer, and Adviser to the President Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Emory University [email protected] [email protected] Hitchens 8

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