DARRELL D. IRWIN, Ph.D. Department of Sociology University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 Email: [email protected] 860-486-4184 (office) ___________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION Loyola University Chicago University of Florida M.A. in Sociology: 1988 B.A. in Sociology: 1980 Ph.D. in Sociology: 1994 B.A. Certificate in Latin American Studies ____________________________________________________________________________ WORK EXPERIENCE 2018-present University of Connecticut; Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology Duties: Teaching Sociology and Criminology courses. Assigned administrative tasks pertaining to program development. Serve on committee to a develop Individualized Studies major. 2014-August 2018 Central China Normal University; Distinguished Professor; Dean of School of Sociology Distinguished Professor duties: Responsible for research projects; teaching graduate students; served as Director of the Chinese Australian Social Work Research center and offer internationalization support. Dean duties: Administrator of School of Sociology and Social Work programs with 42 staff (32 teaching) and 800 plus students and the School’s 2 research centers. As Dean from September 2014 to September 2017, I focused on strategies to develop the School’s two disciplines, Sociology and Social Work. Much of this strategy centered on professionalizing sociology and social work and managing the public relations for the School. Chinese planners and politicians viewed the School’s social service training as essential to national level development. Further enhancing the School’s reputation, the School’s undergrad programs are ranked in the top ten and its graduate sociology program is 5th in China, the MSW in social work is 2nd and the overall First-Discipline graduate sociology program is 10th in China. The School has joint degree programs with Griffith University in Australia; University of Southampton (UK) and bi-annually coordinates a study abroad program with University of California, Berkeley. I traveled with CCNU delegations to sign MOUs to establish partnerships and increase CCNU’s standing abroad. I had financial oversight, hosted overseas delegations, managed hiring and faculty development, and developed strategic planning goals to build internal and external capacity. Major Accomplishments: Under my leadership, CCNU’s School of Sociology accomplished several major achievements. The School underwent two major accreditation reviews; those being approval of our MSW program and approval of first level Doctoral program in Sociology. Both multi-stage reviews were conducted by the central government’s Ministry of Education (MOE). My team and I had to show graduate programs met demanding requirements specified by the MOE. For both reviews, we successfully synthesized years of academic data to write up five-year plans for each program; brought in outside review panels; undertook multiple revisions; and finally submitted comprehensive final reports; both of which received final approvals from the MOE. The MSW program had previously received a conditional approval, but now received full approval. The Doctoral first-level MOE approval allowed the School to award PhD degrees in a greater range of sociological fields. Additionally, I oversaw the creation of an English as a method of instruction (EMI) sociology graduate program for international students. After four years, the School was offering a full course load taught in English and was able to recruit cohorts of international graduate students, which grew to 30 students in total. As Dean, I was instrumental in outcomes that brought the School’s graduate programs ranking into the top ten graduate programs in Sociology in China which heralded our academic excellence. 2011-2014 University of North Carolina Wilmington; Academic Program Coordinator Duties: Served as Criminology Coordinator with administrative duties: such as convening criminology track meetings to coordinate course schedules, selecting graduation award recipients, promoting the major stood in for the chair when needed. Managed faculty group of 14 full-time faculty. 1997-2014 University of North Carolina Wilmington; Professor of Criminology Associate Professor of Criminology; Assistant Professor of Criminology Duties: Taught courses in Criminology and Sociology. Principle investigator with budgetary and fiscal oversight on ten federal, state, and private grants. Major Accomplishments: Founded the UNCW Summer Abroad program to Beijing, China and served as its Team Leader from 2006-2013. Principle investigator on grants in community disproportionately affected by gun violence. Authored scholarship; supervised students; community service. Served on state and university-wide academic-accreditation committees. Named to Chancellor’s Task Force on Education & Training Initiatives for Campus Violence Prevention which acted to prevent or deal with campus crime incidents. Colleagues and I conducted the Wilmington Fear of Crime Survey in 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2008, that was posted on the Wilmington Police Department website. The Chair, another colleague and I were awarded a Ford Foundation providing for a feasibility study for our professional master’s degree and for the implementation of the master’s degree. 1996-1997 National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York Post-Doc Fellow, National Institute on Drug Abuse Post-Doc Fellowship, Duties: Conducted direct research on populations suffering from drug abuse and HIV at New York University based think tank. Projects included meetings with District Attorney’s office in drug reduction effort and researching juvenile delinquency prevention in Harlem by studying a positive mentoring and character education program. Was appointed to City University of New York, Graduate School Affiliate Faculty and Columbia University-Associate Faculty Member, University Seminar, Drugs & Society. Led or joined field research projects, training modules and assessments. 1994 - 1996 St. John's University, Dept. of Sociology, New York Visiting Assistant Professor Duties: Taught graduate and undergrad courses in Sociology. Supervised graduate student assistants. 1992-1993 University of Wisconsin – Parkside, Dept. of Sociology, Instructor Duties: Taught Sociology, Statistics and Criminology. 1985-93 Loyola University Chicago, Dept. of Sociology, Teaching Fellow/Research Assistant Duties: Taught Sociology and Criminology. Designed surveys, coded, and input data. Research assistant at the Institute of Urban Life where I compiled their Directory of Community Organizations. 1988-89 University of Wisconsin - Superior, Dept. of Sociology, Instructor Duties: Taught Sociology and Criminology full-time. 2 1987 City of Chicago, Department of Human Services, Office of Legislative Liaison Program Coordinator Duties: Tracked social service legislation. Authored white papers on workfare and homelessness. 1984 American Broadcasting Company, XIV Winter Olympic Games, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia Production Assistant at ABC Sports Duties: Production and translation in Sarajevo at the XIV Winter Olympics for ABC-TV. 1982-83 Miami-Dade College, Miami, Lead Counselor and Teacher Duties: Counseled and taught English as a Second Language to Cuban and Haitian refugees. Offered programs in classroom, community, and correctional settings. Supervised counselors. 1981 Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Belle Glade, Florida Social Worker Duties: Case worker to Cuban and Haitian refugees. Liaison with USAID; University of Florida. PUBLICATIONS Book Irwin, Darrell D. Case Studies of the Use of Drug Testing in Corporations: Deviance in Large Organizations. San Francisco: Mellen Research Univerity Press, 1991. Book (in progress) Irwin, Darrell D. Gendarmerie and State Sovereignty: Foreign Involvements in the Policing of other Nations. Writing a book on foreign police in occupied territories, engaged in policing populations who regard them as occupiers. Book Chapters and Research Briefing Irwin, Darrell. “Contesting Governance Models: How Rivalries between the Beijing and Washington Consensus Models Shape Africa” Proceedings of Global Governance and National Responsibility Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology. Dec 2015. Irwin, Darrell. “A Window into the Rule of Law through Anti-Corruption Campaigns in China.” Proceedings of International Conference on Rule of Law in China. KoGuan Law School; Jiao Tong University. Shanghai, China. January, 2015. Irwin, Darrell D. “Sochi Today, Sarajevo Yesterday: Assessing Winter Olympics Across the Contexts of Time and Terror”. Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium. Beechum Publishing. (February 4, 2014). Published online. Irwin, Darrell D. “The Showdown with Shrinking Budgets: Police Departments in Economic Downturns” in Mathieu Deflem. (Ed) Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance Vol. 16. “Economic Crisis and Crime”. London: Emerald: 2011. Irwin, Darrell D., Gloria George-Davis and Clyde McDaniel “The Black Church and Youth Socialization Through Community Mentoring” Chapter in McDaniel (Ed) Twenty- First Century African-American Social Thought. New York: Harcourt. 2000. 3 Peer-Reviewed Articles Jiang, Shanhe; Zhang Dawei; and Darrell Irwin. “An exploratory study of the views of supervision strategies by community corrections probationers in China”. The Prison Journal. (forthcoming). Zhang, Dawei; Irwin, Darrell; Jiang, Shanhe; and Haoyue Zhang. “Staffing Composition, Offender Profiles, and Supervision in China’s