Summer 2021 Accomplishments
As we wrap-up both the calendar and academic year, we wanted to pause for a moment to acknowledge the accomplishments of our esteemed faculty members. Particularly, we want to celebrate their achievements during Summer 2021. The next time you see one of our faculty members, please take a moment to congratulate them on their great work! Here's a sample of what SAC faculty accomplished this past summer.
Professor Bradley Ensor
- Published his fourth book entitled The Not Very Patrilocal European Neolithic: Strontium, aDNA, and Archaeological Kinship Analyses
- Published an article entitled "Crow-Omaha and the Future of Kin Term Research"
- Launched a new long-term archaeological project along the coast of South-Central Veracruz with a month-long field season in August. Whereas Gulf Coast archaeology traditionally emphasizes farming societies of the interior alluvial plains, the Proyecto Arqueológico Lagunas Camaronera y Alvarado(PALCA), initiated in 2021 with an American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant, is investigating lifeways and political economies at prehispanic settlements threatened by accelerating shoreline erosion at these lagoons and adjacent coastline of South-Central Veracruz, Mexico.
Professor Paul Leighton
- Published a co-edited book entitled The Palgrave Handbook of Social Harm
- Published a book chapter entitled "How Modern Agriculture, Livestock Rearing and Food Processing Contribute to Disease, Environmental Degradation and Worker Exploitation" in the The Palgrave Handbook of Social Harm
- Published a co-authored article entitled "Establishing a University Food Pantry: Growth, Changes in Shopper Characteristics and Recommendations"
- Published an entry entitled "For-Profit Private Prisons and the Criminal Justice–Industrial Complex" in the Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology
Professor Rita Shah
- Published a book review of Hadar Aviram's Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole
- Interviewed for the Great Lakes Beacon's documentary Drawing the Line: Inside the Fight to End Prison Gerrymandering
- Awarded the Probation Journal Best Paper Award 2020 for her article "Hidden in Plain Sight: Architectures of Community Corrections as a Public Secret." You can listen to an interview about this article and her research here
- Interviewed for the Washington Post Magazine article "The endless trap of American parole: How can anyone rebuild their lives when they keep getting sent back to jail for the pettiest of reasons?"
- Participated on a panel entitled "Credit for invisible emotional labor: Preventing burnout among marginalized faculty" for the Virtual Forum on Anti-Racism & Intersectionality in Feminist Criminology (& Academia)