News and Updates
SERIES LAUNCH: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
Published by Bristol University Press and co-edited with Thomas DeGloma, this 12-volume series features scholarship on cultural, interactionist, psychosocial, and other approaches to the interpretation of meaning. (More details on the series site.)
We recently celebrated the series (and the publication of the first five volumes) in Philadelphia, where it all began! The August 2023 launch included:
Published by Bristol University Press and co-edited with Thomas DeGloma, this 12-volume series features scholarship on cultural, interactionist, psychosocial, and other approaches to the interpretation of meaning. (More details on the series site.)
We recently celebrated the series (and the publication of the first five volumes) in Philadelphia, where it all began! The August 2023 launch included:
- A plenary panel session with the series & volume editors at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI)
- A celebratory gathering at the Bristol University Press booth in the ASA Exhibit Hall (part of the 2023 American Sociological Association annual meeting)

NEW BOOK coming in October 2023!
Covert Violence: The Secret Weapon of the Powerless
co-authored with Jack Levin and published by Bristol University Press
Available for preorder in hardback, paperback, and electronic formats. Learn more on my Books page.
Covert Violence: The Secret Weapon of the Powerless
co-authored with Jack Levin and published by Bristol University Press
Available for preorder in hardback, paperback, and electronic formats. Learn more on my Books page.
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
- February 2023: Presented “Living Will 2.0: Preparing for Digital Life after Corporeal Death” at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore
- March 2022: Presented 2022 Candace Rogers Graduate Student Paper Award (as committee chair) at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston