Dr. Katherine E. Brown is a sociologist and feminist criminologist who specializes in women’s victimization and trauma informed care. Her publications, up to this point, have appeared in Teaching Sociology and The Journal of Criminal Justice Education (forthcoming) and focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning using high impact learning practices. Drawing from her applied work with domestic violence safe housing, Dr. Brown uses similar principles to center each student’s personhood and foster autonomy within the classroom setting.
Brown’s research interests range all the way from state/state-corporate crime and state sanctioned victimization to intimate partner violence and criminal justice programming/policy evaluation. Her work is informed by expanded definitions of criminality that examine how those in power often commit the most socially injurious acts and is often conducted with a victim-centric lens.
Specializations: Criminology, Intimate partner violence, State/state corporate crime
Education
- B.A., Wittenberg University
- M.A., Western Michigan University
- P.H.D., Western Michigan University