Wenona Rymond-Richmond is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology.  She received her M.A. in social science from the University of Chicago and her B.A. from the anthropology department at the University of California-Berkeley.  She recently completed a seven-year qualitative research project on a public housing development in Chicago undergoing massive demolition and redevelopment.  Her current research projects examine high-crime neighborhoods, the genocide in Darfur, and war resisters. Her and co-author John Hagan's monograph "Darfur and the Crime of Genocide" has been selected to receive the Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Outstanding Book Award for the Crime, Law and Deviance Section of the ASA.

Curriculum Vitae:
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Areas of Interest:
Crime and Deviance, Sociology of Law, Urban Sociology, Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Qualitative Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Social Movements.

Current Grants:
2008-10. Andrew Mellon Foundation. Mutual Mentoring Initiative Grant. With Anna Branch, David Cort, Emily Erikson, Dani Lainer-Vos, Andrew Papachristos, Amy Schalet, and Melissa Wooten.

Recent Publications:
"The Criminology of Genocide: The Death and Rape of Darfur." The International Library of Essays in Law and Society, forthcoming April 2008. With John Hagan and Patricia Parker.

"International Humanitarian Law." In The Leading Rogue State: The U.S. and Human Rights, Judith Blau, David Brunsma, Alberto Moncada and Catherine Zimmer (eds.), Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, forthcoming. With John Hagan and Ron Levi.

"Transforming Communities: Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Social Control." In The Many Colors of Crime, Ruth Peterson, Laurie Krivo and John Hagan (eds.), pp. 295-312, New York: New York University Press, 2006.

"The Criminology of Genocide: The Death and Rape of Darfur." Criminology 43:525-61, 2005. With John Hagan and Patricia Parker.