Newsletter Staff

Editor:

Anita J. Marshall

Inside this issue

CSG Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chair Greetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Graduate School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Alumni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Current Publications. . . . . . . . . 3 - 9

CSG at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

New Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

CSG Holiday Party . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Alpha Kappa Delta . . . . . . . . . . 11

Alpha Phi Sigma . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Volume 2: Issue 3 December 2018

Arkansas State University

Criminology, Sociology, and

Geography Newsletter

Department

of Criminology,

Sociology, &

Geography

The CSG Club is up and running at full force! The major goal of this semester has been to foster a community of CSG majors, minors, and interested students to serve as the lifeblood of the department. The core of the club consists of the new CSG club officers who have been elected to administer the club in all its capacities. Our membership is strong with over 100 students on our email list! We have been working diligently this Fall to build our community and have big plans for the Spring semester. We’ve hosted meetings on campus to foster dia-logue among members related to the CSG disciplines, the world stage, and the lives of our members more generally. We are also actively organizing events for the Spring, including a prison tour and a Spring picnic where faculty and mem-bers can get to know each other better outside of the classroom. We will also be planning fundraisers and getting T-shirts. So, come out and help build our com-munity by joining us at our next event! If you have any questions, feel free to contact Dr. Steven Panageotou at spanageotou@astate.edu.

CSG Club

From left to right: Public Relations Specialist— Monique Pope Secretary— Camryn O’Connor President— Chance Roberts Vice President— Megan Jared Faculty Adviser— Dr. Steven Panageotou Treasurer— Destiny Mychael White

mailto:spanageotou@astate.edu

Interested In Graduate School?

Are you interested in graduate

school at Arkansas State University?

The department of Criminology,

Sociology, and Geography has two

great graduate programs! You can

get a Master’s in Sociology or Crimi-

nal Justice. There are many benefits

to graduate study including:

Better job prospects

Now more than ever upper-

level jobs are requiring gradu-

ate degrees.

Small class sizes

Greater interaction with pro-

fessors.

A chance to get real world

experience in academia with a

graduate assistantship.

Contact Dr. Joseph Rukus

(jrukus@astate.edu), Director of

Graduate Programs for Criminology,

Sociology, and Geography for more

information. The deadline to apply

for Fall 2019 is May 1st.

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Holiday greetings from the

CSG Department!

30 students graduated December 2018

18 – B.A. in Criminology

9 - B.A. in Sociology

2 - M.A. in Criminology

1 - M.A. in Sociology

Congratulations to our graduates!

mailto:jrukus@astate.edu

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Current Faculty Publications

Dr. Rebecca Barrett-Fox Articles and Chapters: “A King Cyrus President: How a Donald Trump Presidency Reasserts Conservative Christians’ Right to Hegemony.” Humanity & Society. 42, no. 4 (2018): 502-522. with Matthew Costello, James Hawdon, and Colin Bernatzky, “The Perpetuation of Online Hate: A Criminological Analysis of Factors Associated with Participating in an Online Attack.” Journal of Hate Studies. Forthcoming. with Jennifer Chappell Deckert, Jennifer C. Greenfield, Suzanne Kucharczyk, and Johanna M. Thomas. “400 Words at a Time: Transforming Our Writing in Academia.” Writing as a Way of Staying Human in a Time That Isn’t. Edited by Nate Mickelson. 2018. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2018. “Comic, Tragic, and Burlesque Burkean Responses to Hate: Notes from Counterprotests of Antigay Pickets.” Contention 6, no. 1 (Summer 2018): 23-48. Book Reviews: Johnson, Jessica. Biblical Porn: Labor, Affect, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire, Reading Religion. October 2018. Fea, John. Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump , Reading Religion. October 2018. Berry, Damon. Blood & Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism. Sociology of Religion 79 no. 3: 384-385. Antony Alumkal, Paranoid Science: The Christian Right’s War on Reality , Contemporary Sociology 47 no. 5: 555-556. (Sept. 2018). David Weaver-Zercher. Martyrs Mirror: A Social History. American Studies 56:3-4 (June 2018). Dr. Sarah Kendig Crosnoe, Robert, Sarah M. Kendig, and Aprile D. Benner. 2017. “College-Going and Trajectories of Drinking from Adolescence into Adulthood.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 58(2): 252-269. In Preparation: Kendig, Sarah M., Robert Crosnoe, and Shannon Cavanagh. “Union Formation and Alcohol Use dur-ing the Transition to Adulthood.” Martin-Storey, Alexa, Sarah M. Kendig, and Robert Crosnoe. “Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in the Transition to Adulthood: The Intersection of Sexual Minority Status, Gender, and SES.”

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Dr. Monika Myers Presentations:

2017 Myers, Monika J. U. “Secrets Sociologists Know About How

To Have a Good Family Life” Presented at the Women of Light Con-

ference in Albuquerque, September 16. Invited speaker. Dr. Jihoon Kim Publications: Kim, Jihoon and Yeungjeom Lee. (Online Fir st). “Does It Take a

School? Revisiting the Labeling Effects of First Arrest on Subsequent

Offending and Educational Attainment in a Tolerant Educational Back-

ground.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Jennings, Wesley, Hyojong Song, Jihoon Kim, Danielle Fenimore and

Alex Piquero. (Online First). “An Examination of Bullying and Physi-

cal Health Problems in Adolescence among South Korean Youth.”

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Lee, Yeungjeom and Jihoon Kim. (2018). “Examining the Gendered

Effect of Experienced and Vicarious Victimization: A General Strain

Theory Perspective.” American Journal of Criminal Justice, 43, 181-

196.

Kim, Jihoon, Hyojong Song and Wesley Jennings. (2017). “A Dis-

tinct Form of Deviance or a Variation of Bullying? Examining the De-

velopmental Pathways and Motives of Cyberbullying compared to Tra-

ditional Bullying in South Korea.” Crime & Delinquency, 63(12), 1600

-1625.

Lee, Yeungjeom and Jihoon Kim. (2017). “Developmental Patterns of

Substance Use by Gender and their Relation to Individual, Parental,

and Peer Factors.” Criminal Justice and Behavior, 44(11), 1413-1443.

Lee, Yeungjeom and Jihoon Kim. (2017). “An Examination of Victimi-

zation Trajectories among a Sample of South Korean Adolescents: Risk

and Protective Factors.” Crime & Delinquency, 63(11), 1434-1457.

Presentations:

Song, Hyojong., Yeungjeom Lee, and Jihoon Kim. (2018). “Gender

Differences in the Link between Cyberbullying and Parental Monitor-

ing Trajectories” Presented at the Western Society of Criminology,

Long Beach, California.

Current Faculty Publications

Glimpses of the CSG Dept. at work…..

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Current Faculty Publications

Dr. Jihoon Kim, cont. Presentations, cont.

Kim, Jihoon. (2017). “The Overlap between Delinquency and Peer Delinquency” Presented at the

Southern Criminal Justice Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Lee, Yeungjeom, Jihoon Kim and David Khey. (2017). “The Developmental Linkages between Alcohol

Use and Delinquency.” Presented at the Southern Criminal Justice Association Conference, New Orle-

ans, Louisiana. Dr. Veena Kulkarni

Book Manuscript under Advance Contract from Routledge (Peer reviewed)

Veena Kulkarni Indian Immigrants in Developed Democracies: A Cross-National Study Expected April 2016

Publications:

Rukus, Joseph and Veena Kulkarni. ‘Easier Said than Done: Methodological Challenges in Exploring Prevalence of Mental Health Illness among Rural Jail Inmates in the United States’, International Journal of Rural Criminolo-gy, Forthcoming.

Kulkarni, Veena, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha. ‘Has Disability Risen among the Elderly in India?’, Economic and Political Weekly, Forthcoming.

Kulkarni, Veena and Douglas F. Barnes. 2017.‘Education in Rural Peru: Exploring the Role of Household Elec-trification in School Enrollment’, Journal of Research in Rural Education, 32(10): 1-19.

Kulkarni, Veena, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha. 2018. ‘Aging, Disability and Disease in India’, Population Center Working Papers (PS/PARC), University of Pennsylvania, October.

Presentations:

2018 Joseph Rukus and Veena Kulkarni ‘Mental Health Problems in Arkansas County Jails: A Shortage of Mental Health Services Means the Mentally Ill Frequently End Up in Jails Instead of Hospitals’, American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November 14-17.

Invited Talks:

2018 ‘Disability among the Elderly in India, 2005-2012’, International Conference on Aging Well, Kochi, Kerala, India, January 11-13. Dr. Steven Panageotou Publications: Panageotou, Steven. 2018. “Corporate Power in the Twenty-First Century” in The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by William Outhwaite and Stephen Turner. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Panageotou, Steven. 2017. “Disciplining Greece: Crisis Management and its Discontents.” Review of Radical Polit-

ical Economics. DOI: 10.1177/048661341770397.

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Dr. Steven Panageotou: Publications: Panageotou, Steven. 2017. “Beyond Welfare, Workfare, and Employment: For a Basic Income as a Constitutional Amendment” in Human Rights Of, By, and For the People: How to Critique and Change the US Constitution, edited by Keri E. Iyall Smith, Louis Edgar Esparza, and Judith R. Blau. New York: Routledge. Invited Talks: “Cultural Diversity and the Three Dimensions of Political Action: Corporate Power and Resistance” Presented at the Intercultural Center Lecture Series on Cultural Diversity, Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN, March 15. Presentations: “The United States of Trump Corp: When A Personal Brand Becomes President.” 17th Annual Conferences of the Inter-national Social Theory Consortium, Chicago, IL, May 17-19. Dr. Joseph Rukus: Publications: Rukus, J. & Kulkarni, V. (2019). Easier said than done: Methodological challenges in exploring prevalence of mental health illness among rural jail inmates in the United States. International Journal of Rural Criminology, 4(2), in press Costello, M., Rukus, J., & Hawden, J (2018). We don’t like your type around here: Regional and residential differ-ences in exposure to online hate material targeting sexuality. Deviant Behavior, early view, DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2018.1426266 Presentations: Rukus, J. & Kulkarni, V. (2018). Mental health problems in Arkansas county jails: A shortage of mental health services means the mentally ill frequently end up in jails instead of hospitals Dr. Bill Stroud Publications: “Innovative Potable Water Saving Techniques at Cape Coral,” Florida Water Resources Journal, Vol. 68, No. 4, 2017, pp. 12 – 16 (with Mary K. Kilmer). “Preserving Habitat for Athene cunicularia floridana (Florida Burrowing Owl): Challenges and Solutions from Cape Coral, Florida, USA,” Urban Naturalist, October, 2018, pp. 1 – 14. Presentations: “Water Woes within Amenity-based Subdivisions,” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Bos-ton, Massachusetts, April 8, 2017. “Setbacks Stall Subdivision Removal,” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 12, 2018.

Current Faculty Publications cont.

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Dr. Joshua Williams Publications:

Williams, Joshua H., and Richard Rosenfeld (2016). The Impact of

Neighborhood Status on Imprisonment for Firearm Offenses. Journal

of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 32(4), 383-400.

Griffin, Timothy, Joshua H. Williams, John Wooldredge, and Dan-

ielle Miller. (2016). Does AMBER Alert ‘Save Lives’? An Empirical

Analysis and Critical Implications. Journal of Crime and Justice. 39

(4), 490-511.

Presentations:

Williams, Joshua H. (2017). “Neighborhood Crime Rates an Indica-

tor of Individual Dangerousness?,” American Society of Criminology

meetings, Philadelphia, PA: November.

Williams, Joshua H. (2017). “The Impact of Neighborhood Status on

Imprisonment for Firearm Related Offenses,” Western Society of

Criminology meetings, Las Vegas, NV: February.

Dr. Matthew Wright

Presentations:

Brown, Susan L., Matthew R. Wright, and Elizabeth Howe-Huist. 2018

“The Rise of Cohabitation among Older Adults: A Cross-National Per-

spective.” Presented at annual meeting of Population Association of

America, Denver, Colorado (April).

Lin, I-Fen, Susan L. Brown, Matthew R. Wright, and Anna M. Hammer-

smith. 2018. “Depressive Symptoms following Gray Divorce and Wid-

owhood.” Presented at annual meeting of Population Association of

America, Denver, Colorado (April).

Brown, Susan L., I-Fen Lin, Anna M. Hammersmith, and Matthew R.

Wright. Forthcoming. “Repartnering Following Gray Divorce: The

Roles of Resources and Constraints for Women and Men.” Demography

Brown, Susan L., I-Fen Lin, Anna Hammersmith, and Matthew R.

Wright. 2018. “Later Life Dissolution and Repartnering Pathways: A

National Portrait.” Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sci-

ences and Social Sciences 73: 1032-1042.

Current Faculty Publications cont.

We Want To Feature You

Our department would not

be where it is without all of

the alumni who have graced

our classrooms over the

years. If you are a recent or

not so recent alumnus of the

Criminology, Sociology,

and Geography Department

we want to feature you in

our next edition of the

newsletter. Please send us

the following information so

that we can share your story

with current, future, and

past students of the pro-

gram.

Your name

Your graduation year

A brief write-up about

what you have been up

to in the Criminology,

Sociology, or Geogra-

phy world lately.

A square photo of your-

self to feature alongside

your snippet.

Please send all this infor-

mation to the department at

amarshall@astate.edu!

Alumni

Welcome New Staff

Rebekah (Becky) Vickery joined the CSG

Department in November as Administra-

tive Specialist.

She was born and raised in Jonesboro and attended Nettleton High School. She served in the Army from 1988-91.

Her son, Adam, is a Fall 2018 A-State graduate.

Her favorite hobby is gardening.

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Dr. Matthew Wright, cont.

Presentations, cont.

Lin, I-Fen, Susan L. Brown, Matthew R. Wright, and Anna M. Hammersmith. 2018. “Antecedents

of Gray Divorce: A Life Course Perspective.” Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sci-

ences and Social Sciences 73: 1022-1031.

Publications:

Wright, Matthew R. 2018. “Older Parents’ Perceptions of Future Care from Adult Children: The

Role of Cohabitation.” Presented at annual meeting of Population Association of America, Denver,

Colorado (April).

Wright, Matthew R., Susan L. Brown, and Wendy D. Manning. 2018. “Midlife Marital Quality:

Twenty-Five Years of Change.” Presented at annual meeting of Population Association of Ameri-

ca, Denver, Colorado (April).

Wright, Matthew R., Anna M. Hammersmith, Susan L. Brown, and I-Fen Lin. 2018. “The Role of

Union Dissolution and Subsequent Repartnering on Life Satisfaction and Loneliness in Later Life.”

Presented at annual meeting of Population Association of America, Denver, Colorado (April).

Zugarek, Gwendolyn, Matthew R. Wright, and Susan L. Brown. 2018. “Union Type, Relationship

Quality, and Health in Later Life: A Comparison of Cohabitation and Remarriage.” Presented at

annual meeting of Population Association of America, Denver, Colorado (April).

Current Faculty Publications cont.

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CSG Holiday Party

Learn More About Alpha Kappa Delta

Alpha Phi Sigma recognizes academic excellence of Undergraduate and Graduate students of Criminal Justice, as well as Juris Doctorate students. The goals of Alpha Phi Sigma are to honor and promote academic excellence, community service, educational leadership, and unity. Alpha Phi Sigma is the only Criminal Justice Honor Society which is a certified member of the Association of College Honor Societies and affiliated with the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Dr. Joseph Rukus is the Faculty advisor for the Alpha Phi Sigma chapter at Arkansas State University.

Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) is the International Sociology Honor Society. The Mission Statement: Alpha Kappa Delta seeks to acknowledge and promote ex-cellence in scholarship in the study of sociology, the research of social problems, and such other social and intellectual ac-tivities as will lead to improve-ment in the human condition. The purpose of Alpha Kappa Delta is to seek to acknowledge and promote excellence in the scholarship in the study of soci-ology, the research of social problems, and such other social and intellectual activities as will lead to improvement in the hu-man condition. Alpha Kappa Delta is a non-secret, democratic, international society of scholars dedicated to the ideal of Athropon

Katamannthanein Diakonesin or "to investigate humanity for the purpose of service." Membership is open to under-graduate students, graduate stu-dents, and faculty members from active chapters who meet the minimum standards. Currently, there are more than 120,000 members in Alpha Kappa Delta and over 660 chapters. Dr. Steven Panageotou is the Faculty sponsor for the Alpha Kappa Delta Chapter at Arkan-sas State University. The Beta Chapter of Alpha Kap-pa Delta, here at A-State, spon-sors many activities for students, such as faculty/student celebra-tions, the annual research sym-posium, and various other scho-lastic activities.

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