Wenona Rymond-Richmond

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University (2007)

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Expertise

Crime and Deviance; Sociology of Law; Urban Sociology; Inequality; Race and
Ethnicity; Qualitative Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Social Movements

Education and Interest

Wenona RymondRichmond is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University, 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. Wenona 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 (1) high crime neighborhoods; (2) the genocide in Darfur; and (3) war resisters.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:

Rymond-Richmond, Wenona. 2006. “Transforming Communities: Formal and Informal
Mechanisms of Social Control.” The Many Colors of Crime. Eds. Ruth Peterson, Laurie
Krivo and John Hagan. New York: New York University Press, Pp. 295-312.

Hagan, John, Wenona Rymond-Richmond and Patricia Parker. 2005. “The Criminology
of Genocide: The Death and Rape of Darfur,” Criminology. Volume 43: 525-561.

Hagan, John, Wenona Rymond-Richmond and Patricia Parker. Forthcoming April 2008.
“The Criminology of Genocide: The Death and Rape of Darfur,” The International
Library of Essays in Law and Society. Ashgate Publishing Limited.

Hagan, John, Ron Levi, and Wenona Rymond-Richmond. Forthcoming 2008.
“International Humanitarian Law.” The Leading Rogue State: The US and Human
Rights. Eds. Judith Blau, David Brunsma, Alberto Moncada, and Catherine Zimmer.
Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.