Chris Smith

Bio

Chris Smith is a fifth year graduate student in residence. Her interests include crime and deviance, feminist criminology, prisons and families, organized crime, gentrification and crime, social network analysis, and social policy. Current research projects include an institutional narrative analysis of prisons and families and a historical analysis of women in early 1900s Chicago organized crime. Chris is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Society of Criminology. She is a graduate representative on the Committee of Intellectual Affairs. She received the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009. Chris lived in Horodok, Ukraine as a Peace Corps volunteer from 2004-2006..

Education

2002 B.A. Sociology University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Research

Research Assistant and Project Manager for Dr. Papachristos on organized crime in Chicago, summer 2008-present

Publications

Papachristos, Andrew V., Chris M. Smith, Mary L. Scherer, and Melissa A. Fugiero.
Forthcoming. “More Coffee, Less Crime? The Relationship between Gentrification and Neighborhood Crime Rates in Chicago, 1991 to 2005.” City & Community.

Teaching

TA experience:
Sociology 107- Contemporary American Society, fall 2007
Sociology 103- Social Problems, spring 2008
Sociology 222- Sociology of the Family, fall 2008
Sociology 213-Data Collection and Analysis, fall 2009
Sociology 401- Foundations of Sociological Theory, spring 2011