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Butgers-Gamden Fall 2011 IleRartmcnt ol Sociology, lnthronology Newsletter And Gfiminal lustice llew laculty - llJ. $tacia Gilliard-Mattncw$ Stacia Gilliard- Gilliard-Matthews was intersections of gender, Matthews has joined an Assistant Professor race, and social class). the department as an of Criminology at West She teaches Police and Assistant Professor of Virginia University in Policing, Research Criminal Justice. Morgantown. Her areas Methods (graduate Professor Gilliard- of research focus on seminar), and Poor, Matthews earned her the relationships that Minorities, and Justice. B.A. from the University politics and policies She also directs the of Maryland at College have on social issues internship program. We Park, M.A. from The (i.e., White supremacist are delighted to Ohio State University, group mobilization, welcome Professor and Ph.D. from Arizona police behavior and Gilliard-Matthews to the State University. Before discretion, and the department. coming to Rutgers- treatment of victims as Camden, Professor it relates to the laculU llews Professors Ted Goertzel The second edition of Sponsored by the Rutgers and Sheila Cosminsky Crack Mothers: Center for Children and have announced plans to Pregnancy, Drugs, and Childhood Studies in retire after long careers at the Media, a book by Dr. partnership with our Rutgers Camden. Next Drew Humphries, has just department and the semester may be your last been released. Editors at Rutgers-Camden School chance to take a course Ohio State University of Law, the event brought with one of these profess- Press recognized the together about 100 sors, although Emeritus continuing demand for the policymakers, government faculty do occasionally book and made the officials, human service teach courses. Dr. decision to bring Crack providers, and educators Cosminsky plans to Mothers out as a paper to hear experts - including continue to live in the back. adult children of area, with some travel incarcerated parents - during the winter months. Dr. Siegelwas co- discuss topics of Dr. Goeftzelwill move to organizer of a one-day impofiance to policy and southeastern Ohio where forum entitled "Giving practice. his wife's parents live. His Voice to the Silent: house in Medford Lakes is Children and Families of on the market. the lncarcerated." Continued on pg. 5 Gourse llotes Dr. Humphries debuts Emmons (Nursing) in cosminsk @ camden. rutqer Criminal Violence, a new Guatemala during spring s.edu. offering in the MA break, Mar. 10-18, by Cindy Dell Clark is offering program in criminal registering for 50:070:381 Tlf t a special topics course in justice. More advanced Health and Healing in Applied Anthropology # than her under-graduate Guatemala: A Service (50:070:386) in Spring violence class, Criminal Learning Journey.This 2012. lncreasingly anthro- Violence focuses on course is cross listed with pology has become an varieties of violence, and the nursing school and will essential source for gives students a chance focus on the historical, solving problems in the to explore one variety in sociopolitical, economic global and multicultural depth. ln Aprilthe seminar and cultural influences on world. ln medicine and will host a dinner and a health and health care public health, in marketing talk by acclaimed delivery in Guatemala. and business, in high tech anthropologist Philippe Students will attend five 3- and global industry, Bourgois in the Urban hour seminars in addition anthropology allows Research Series. The to the 8-day trip. ln Guate- decision makers to better event is open to graduate mala, students will work in understand the ways justice cultural context shapes lglesia de San Andr4s students in criminal local Maya communities and interested members on a variety of projects issues at hand. This Xec u l, Q u etzalte nan g o, of the Rutgers community. including health education course will be an overview Guatemala and stove building. of the uses of Applied including Students willvisit a bone Anthropology, Are you interested in the study of practical setter, a traditional healer, obtaining experience in cases from domains such and a mid-wife; learn from the criminal justice field? as health and business. a Mayan scholar on Maya Internship/Service in Plans are being made for cosmovision and a local CriminalJustice students to get involved in (50:202:404:0'l ) may be western health care a hands on field project on the course for you and it is provider; and pafiicipate in behalf of an actual non- being offered this Spring a Maya ceremony. profit charity, as part of 2o12ll You will have the Additional trip highlights the class. Come try your opportunity to earn course include: a visit to Lake hand at the practical uses credits while obtaining Atitlan, one of the most of anthropology, and open field experience, applying majestic spots in all of your mind to how practical concepts to reality, and Latin America, as well as anthropology can be. observing professionals visits to villages on the making decisions. You will lake, a coffee plantation, ln the Spring, Dr. Mazelis also obtain valuable dye cooperative, the will be teaching Urban knowledge about other urban center of Sociology and Social CJS careers and your Quezaltenango, ruins of Stratification, and both personal career trajectory. the ancient Maya city of courses will include a civic be eligible, To students lximche, and the colonial engagement component must be of junior standing city of Antigua. Spanish as they did last spring, in with a 2.5 GPA(minimum). skills are a plus but not which all students will lf interested contact Dr. necessary. For more complete volunteer hours Gilliard-Matthews at information, visit the in the North Camden stacia. matthews @ rutqers. public lnternational Studies schools and write edu for more information about their experiences. webpage at http://int- studies.camden. rutgers.ed Continued on pg. 5 Join Dr. Sheila Cosminsky uiguatemala. pho or email (Anthropology) and Kevin Dr. Cosminsky at Uftan Besearcfi $efies - PhilipRe Bourgois! As part of the Urban daily life in the U.S. that enforce US inner- Research Series, in inner-city can be city apartheid and April 2012 the conceptualized as provide support for Department will be operating within the punitive sponsoring a visit overlapping moral incarceration/exclu- from acclaimed economies that sion of the socially scholar Philippe propagate even more vulnerable. The moral Bourgois, who will talk violence. Most notably economy concept about his work on the and visibly, youth find allows one to resolve moral economy of themselves trapped the incongruence inner-city violence in within social networks between the friendly Photo: Fernando Montero, George North Philadelphia. Karandinos, and Philippe Bourgois, that oblige them to sociability of daily Universitv of Pennsvlvania participate in solidary interactions among His talk is titled "The exchanges of our neighbors that so Moral Economy of assistive violence easily turn lethal." Violence in the U.S. following kin-based lnner City: An and gender-scripted The Masters program Ethnography in Puerto chains of allegiance. in Criminal Justice Rican North Philly." Seeking security and Urban Research He describes his talk asse rti n g se lf - re s pect, Speaker Series brings below. overwhelmed heads graduate students, of households advanced under- "ln an eight-week proactively engage in graduate students, period, there were violence. Even the faculty, and sixteen shootings with instrumental researchers together th ree fatal ities, th ree mobilization of in a collegial forum to stabbings, and violence by drug discuss ideas and fourteen additional dealers follow ethical issues relevant to 'aggravated assaults' norms and reciprocal conducting criminal "ln the aftermath of the in the four square ob I i gati o n s recog n i zed justice and related shootout that caused the most collateral blocks surrounding as at least partially urban research in damage, our fieldwork ln legitimate the dealers site. by most Camden. lt is were forced off our the aftermath of the local residents. The designed to make block, by several shootout that caused spectacular visibi I ity ol connections among mothers who openly the most collateral interpersonal and researchers and to threatened to'snitch."' damage, the dealers criminal violence on engage our students were forced off our inner city streets, in urban research. block, by several however, fuels mothers who openly national discourses of th reatened to'snitch.' individual The high levels of unworthiness and violence affecting cultural sociopathy $tuilenl llcws Dr. Humphries is pending some revisions. pendent study involving interested in talking to It includes new long-term analysis of Guatemalan students who would like to data from Russia and data. Spanish-speaking conduct research on Brazil. preferred. All interested Congratulations to all television's representa- students should contact October and her at cosminsk@ tions of violence. She has Congratulations to Sean December graduatesl camden. rutgers.edu. written on television's Rickards and Krystal images of lemale murder- Kiper. The Graduate The long awaited ers and drug addicts, and Admissions Committee Medicinal Herb Garden is gearing up for a multi- was impressed by their so has finally been planted program survey of crime record they academic with help from Dr. Katrina dramas and issues related were awarded depad- Hazzar d-D onal d's Soc ia I to class, race, and gender. mental fellowships. Problems class. Anyone interested should contact Dr. Humphries at Alumna Latonya Hinton, currently in a Ph.D. humphri @ camden. rutqers ln Memoriam .edu program in Colon, Germany, is touring with The department was Recent alumna Ekaterina the Dig Flo Band after the joined saddened by the loss of Kaynarova release of her first CD, Kano Williams, an Professor Ted Goertzel The Aflame. Journey undergraduate sociology and researchers from She is recording under the major who died October 5, Russia and Brazil in name of Akua Naru and 2011.