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SADRI

Social and Demographic Research Institute

Wenona Rymond-Richmond

Wenona Rymond-Richmond
(Ph.D. Northwestern University 2007)
Sociology

730 Thompson Hall
(413) 545-3547
wenona@soc.umass.edu

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 book Darfur and the Criminology of Genocide has receivd the Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Outstanding Book Award for the Crime, Law and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association, and the Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication, American Society of Criminology.

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Urban Sociology; Crime, Law, and Deviance; Public Housing; Neighborhood Effects; Race and Ethnicity; Qualitative Sociology; Genocide; Cultural Sociology

Recent Grants:

2008-10. Andrew Mellon Foundation. Mutual Mentoring Initiative Grant. With Anna Branch, David Cort, Andrew Papachristos, Amy Schalet, and Melissa Wooten.

Selected Publications:

"Criminology Confronts Genocide: Whose Side Are You On?" Theoretical Criminology forthcoming. With John Hagan.

"The Ambiguous Genocide: The U.S. State Department and the Death Toll in Darfur."  In Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts, Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill (eds.), Cornell University Press, forthcoming. With John Hagan. 

"Racial Targeting of Sexual Violence in Darfur." American Journal of Public Health 99:386-92, 2009. With John Hagan and Alberto Palloni.

"The Collective Dynamics of Race and Genocidal Victimization in Darfur."  American Sociological Review 73:875-902, 2008. With John Hagan.

Darfur and the Criminology of Genocide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. With John Hagan.

"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.