CURRICULUM VITAE Carla Barrett, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Sociology John Jay College of Criminal Justice 899 Tenth Avenue New York, NY 212-237-8683 [email protected] www.carlajbarrett.com Twitter: @carlajbarrett EDUCATION Ph.D., Sociology, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, New York, NY. May 2007. Concentrations: Sociological Theory, Sociology of Punishment, Race and Law, Qualitative Methods, Ethnography. Advisor: Dr. Bill Kornblum M.A., Sociology, Graduate Faculty at The New School for Social Research, New York, NY. December, 1999. Concentrations: Sociological Theory, , Urban Sociology, Ethnography. Advisor: Dr. Terry Williams B.A., Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. June, 1996. Concentrations: Sociology, Anthropology, Political Economy. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Youth Crime and Youth Justice, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Punishment, Race and Law, Youth and Social Exclusion, Criminalization of Youth, Sociology of Violence, Sociology of Law, Critical Race Theory, Critical and Cultural Criminology, Ethnography TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Fall 2010- present. Courses taught: Juvenile Delinquency; Criminology, Introductory Sociology. Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, SUNY College at Old Westbury. Fall 2007- Spring 2010. Courses taught: Sociology of Violence; Senior Seminar; Crime, Media and Culture; Intro to Criminology; Issues: Race and Law; Criminal Justice Administration; Juvenile Delinquency. Substitute Lecturer, Sociology Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Substitute appointment for the 2006/2007 academic year. Courses taught: Introductory Sociology; Sociology of Violence; Juvenile Delinquency. Adjunct Faculty, Sociology Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Fall 2004- Summer 2006, Summer 2007, Summer 2008, Summer 2010. Courses taught: Introductory Sociology; Sociology of Violence; Juvenile Delinquency. CUNY Writing Fellow, Lehman College, September 2002 – June 2004. Two year appointment assisting faculty in development of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), writing-to-learn and writing intensive based curricula. Planned and conducted faculty development workshops and Barrett – Curriculum Vita, Page 1 of 6 writing and peer-review workshops for undergraduate and graduate students. Attended numerous workshops and seminars dedicated to WAC-based pedagogy and classroom strategies. RESEARCH SKILLS Qualitative research methods including surveys, structured interviewing, open-ended interviewing, focus groups, short-term and long-term ethnography. Planning, organizing, training and managing qualitative research teams and designing surveys, focus group and interview instruments and field research guides. PUBLICATIONS Courting Kids: Inside an Experimental Youth Court. NYU Press: 2013 (Book Review) Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts by Aaron Kupchik. Punishment and Society 10(1), January 2008. (Book Review of Money Has No Smell by Paul Stoller) “The Ties that Bind: Stoller’s Account of West African Street Vendors in New York.” North American Dialogue. September 2002. PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Roundtable Presentation: Teaching Juvenile Delinquency Critically. November 2012 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL. Roundtable Organizer, Roundtable Chair: Teaching Critical Criminology: Teaching Specific Content Areas Critically. November 2012 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL. Roundtable Organizer, Roundtable Chair : Teaching Critical Criminology: Fostering Critical Thinking. November 2012 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL. Session Organizer, Panel Chair, Critic : Author Meets Critic: Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys by Victor Rios. November 2011 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC. Presentation (Lunch Lecture): The Legal Construction of “Adult-Juveniles”: Prosecuting Youth as Adults in the US and New York City. Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. May 2, 2011. Presentation: The Legal Construction of “Adult-Juveniles”: Labeling and the Criminal Prosecution of Adolescents. November 2010 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA. Session Co-Organizer, Panel Co-Chair: Critical Criminology and Formal Systems of Social Control. November 2010 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA. Session Organizer, Panel Chair: Transgressive Pedagogies: Teaching Cultural Criminology. November 2009 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA. Presentation: A Natural Attraction: Cultural Criminology and Liberatory Pedagogy. Presented at the November 2009 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA. Barrett – Curriculum Vita, Page 2 of 6 Discussant: Author Meets Critic: Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground by Gregory Snyder. November 2009 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA. Presentation: Managing Irrationality: Contradictions in the Case Processing of Youth Prosecuted as if They were Adults. Presented at the November 2008 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, St. Louis, MO. Panel Chair: Art, Music, and Representation: Global Conflict and Social Exclusion. November 2008 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, St. Louis, MO. Panel Chair: Understanding the Impact of Court Processes. November 2008 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, St. Louis, MO. Discussant: Juvenile Justice Practice. November 2008 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, St. Louis, MO. Presentation: Inherent Contradictions: The Practical Absurdity of Prosecuting Youth As If They Were Adults. Presented at the August meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), Boston, MA. Presentation: Defense of Dissertation at Crime, Conflict and Control, the Spring 2008 Common Session of the Common Study Programme on Criminal Justice and Critical Criminology, Middlesex University, UK, March 2008. Awarded a Diploma in International Critical Criminology. Committee Chair: David Brotherton, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Review Committee: Jock Young, Kent University, UK; Rene van Swaanigen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Vasilis Karydis, University of the Peloponnese, Greece. Presentation: Treating “Youth Tried as Adults” as Kids: Parens Patriae in a Criminal Court. Presented at the August 2006 American Sociological Association meetings, Montreal, Canada. Presentation: Trying Youth as Adults: Re-imagining ‘Parens Patriae’ in a Criminal Court. Presented at the July 2006 Law and Society meetings, Baltimore, MD. Presentation: If You So Much as Spit on the Sidewalk: Constructing Juvenile Offenders in a NYC Criminal Court. Presented at the May 2005 Common Study Programme on Criminal Justice and Critical Criminology, CUNY, New York, NY. Presentation: Willie Bosket and Beyond: Trying Youth as Adults in the United States. Presented at the April 2004 Common Study Programme on Criminal Justice and Critical Criminology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Presentation: Voice, Audience, and Alternative Assignment Construction. Presented at the CUNY August 2003 Writing Fellows August Institute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. Presentation: By Any Other Name: “Adult Kids” in a Manhattan Criminal Court. Presented at the March 2003 Ethnography New York Style Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. Presentation: Trying Kids as Adults: The Phenomenon of Transfer in the 1990’s. Presented at the November 2002 Conference of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL. Presentation: Restoration or Retribution? Juvenile Justice Policy Formation in the New South Africa. Presented at the June 2000 Justice Studies Association Conference, Albany, NY. Barrett – Curriculum Vita, Page 3 of 6 GRANTS, AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS Certificate of Appreciation for guidance and encouragement of Dean’s List students, Academic Affairs, John Jay College, Fall 2012 PSC-CUNY Research Grant 2012 (Investigating Mindfulness Based Practices in a Punitive Youth Setting) Writing Intensive Teaching Certification, John Jay College, Fall 2011 Certificate of Appreciation for guidance and encouragement of Dean’s List students, Academic Affairs, John Jay College, Fall 2010 United University Professions (UUP) 2009/2010 Professional Development Award, SUNY College at Old Westbury. SUNY College at Old Westbury Faculty Development Grant, 2007/2008 Diploma in International Critical Criminology, Common Study Programme on Criminal Justice and Critical Criminology. Defense of Dissertation at the Spring 2008 Common Session at Middlesex University, UK, March 2008. (Committee Chair: David Brotherton, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Review Committee: Jock Young, Kent University, UK; Rene van Swaanigen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Vasilis Karydis, University of the Peloponnese, Greece) Student Appreciation Award, SUNY College at Old Westbury, 2008 and 2009 ACADEMIC SERVICE (Elected) Chair, Campus-wide Assessment Committee, John Jay College, 2012-2013 (Elected) Campus-wide Assessment Committee, John Jay College, 2011-present (Elected) Co-chair, Faculty Judicial Committee, SUNY College at Old Westbury, 2009-2010 Women’s Studies Coordinating Committee, SUNY College at Old Westbury, 2008-2010