We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jody Miller is the inaugural Visiting Professor in Residence in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine for 2014-15. She will be in residence during the winter quarter and part of spring quarter in 2015, where she will be working with Dr. Cheryl Maxson and Ph.D. students to begin building a quantitative database drawn from content coded gang ethnographies.
Dr. Jody Miller specializes in feminist theory and qualitative research methods at the School of Criminal Justice. Her research focuses on gender, crime and victimization in the context of urban communities, the commercial sex industry, and youth gangs. Her dozens of articles and book chapters on these topics have appeared in representative publications such as Criminology, Gender & Society, Theoretical Criminology, and Justice Quarterly.
Miller’s books include Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence (NYU Press, 2008) and One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs, and Gender (Oxford University Press, 2001). Getting Played was a 2008 finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems and received the 2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Race, Gender, and Class Section. Of her many other honors and accolades, in 2009, Miller received the Coramae Richey Mann Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on People of Color and Crime for her outstanding scholarship on race, ethnicity, crime, and justice.