News and Updates
The Allure of Premeditated Murder is out in paperback
Get your copy at Amazon or Rowman & Littlefield
Get your copy at Amazon or Rowman & Littlefield
NEW SERIES: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
Forthcoming (2022- ) from Bristol University Press and co-edited with Thomas DeGloma, this exciting new 12-volume series features scholarship on cultural, interactionist, psychosocial, and other approaches to the interpretation of meaning. The inaugural volume is slated for May 2022! Find out more on the series website.
Forthcoming (2022- ) from Bristol University Press and co-edited with Thomas DeGloma, this exciting new 12-volume series features scholarship on cultural, interactionist, psychosocial, and other approaches to the interpretation of meaning. The inaugural volume is slated for May 2022! Find out more on the series website.
Two edited volumes on crime & media published
From Emerald Publishing as part of its Studies in Media and Communications series, edited by Laura Robinson, Shelia Cotten, and Jeremy Schulz, these two volumes feature empirical studies that advance knowledge about the complex intersections of crime and media. Both feature cutting-edge and international scholarship, each with a distinct theme:
From Emerald Publishing as part of its Studies in Media and Communications series, edited by Laura Robinson, Shelia Cotten, and Jeremy Schulz, these two volumes feature empirical studies that advance knowledge about the complex intersections of crime and media. Both feature cutting-edge and international scholarship, each with a distinct theme:
- Vol. 20: Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age (March 2021)
- Vol. 21: Mass Mediated Representations of Crime and Criminality (May 2021)
OTHER RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- March 2022: Presented 2022 Candace Rogers Graduate Student Paper Award (as committee chair) at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston
- February 2021: Presented 2021 Community Service and Activism Award (as committee chair) at the (virtual) annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society
- February 2021: “Presidential Plenary Session: Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Invited presider at the (virtual) annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society
- November 2019: 2019 George Herbert Mead Lecture: “Making a Multiple Murderer – Crime Coverage, Cultural Meaning, and Violent Role Taking.” Invited presentation at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Baltimore
- November 2019: Author (for The Allure of Premeditated Murder: Why Some People Plan to Kill) on “Author-Meets-Critics” panel session at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting, San Francisco
- August 2019: “Meaning Making on Twitter amid #FanCon Fallout.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, New York City
- May 2019: “Passing on our Interactionist Inheritance: Teaching Graduate Students and Advanced Undergraduates.” Invited panel presentation at the Couch-Stone Symposium (semi-annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction), Des Moines, Iowa
- April 2019: "When Planning is the Payoff: An Understudied Motive for Mass Murder," invited presentation at Delaware State University, Dover
