Contributors
- Contributors
Lynne Haney is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. She has conducted research on gender and the welfare state in both the United States and Hungary and is the author of Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary (2002) and coeditor of Families of a New World: Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context (2003). She is currently writing Offending Women: Gender, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire, which examines historical shifts in the gendered practices of punishment and in the institutional linkages between the welfare and penal systems.
Kelly Hannah-Moffat is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, cross appointed to the Center of Criminology. Her publications include Punishment in Disguise: The Governance of Canadian Women's Federal Imprisonment, University of Toronto Press, and “Prisons that Empower: Neoliberal Governance in Canadian Women's Prisons” in British Journal of Criminology (2000) for which she received the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize. Her article on criminogenic need and transformative risk is forthcoming in Punishment and Society.
Jill McCorkel is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Research Associate at the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research examines gender, race, punishment, and the state. She is completing a book on the shifting character of punishment practices within women's prisons with an emphasis on how the self is implicated in the new penology. Her work has recently appeared in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Symbolic Interaction, and Qualitative Sociology.
Rachel Roth is a Fellow at Ibis Reproductive Health in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her work includes a project on imprisonment and reproductive rights and research collaborations with U.S. advocacy organizations. The author of Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights (Cornell University Press, 1999), she has also published articles in The Nation, Salon.com, Feminist Legal Studies, and Feminist Studies. Before joining Ibis, she taught Women's Studies and Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dmitriy Vyortkin is currently an Associate in Research at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University. He received his education in Russia (Russian State Pedagogical University) and the United Kingdom (University of Lancaster). He is an international security specialist, with particular expertise in the region of the former Soviet Union. For many years, he worked as a university professor in Kazakhstan, combining that job with the verification process of the Soviet–American INF Treaty. A NATO Fellow in 1994–1996, he has published extensively on the security of Kazakhstan and other NIS countries.
Evelyn Zellerer has a PhD in Criminology. She has long been interested in gender, culture, and social justice. Over the past ten years, her research has examined violence against women, female offenders, and restorative justice. She has worked in numerous cultural contexts; she recently codirected an extensive action research project in the former Soviet Union. She can be reached through her Web site, http://www.ezellerer.com.
