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Curriculum Vitae

July 2011

ANDREA M. LEVERENTZ

Department of Sociology

University of Massachusetts Boston

100 Morrissey Boulevard

Boston, MA 02125-3393

617-287-6265

andrea.leverentz@umb.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago. 2006.

Dissertation: “People, Places, and Things: The Social Process of Reentry for Female Ex-Offenders.” Committee: Andrew Abbott, Richard Taub, Robert Sampson

M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago. 1998.

Thesis: “One Hundred Percent Customer Satisfaction: How a Program Fails While Pleasing Everyone”

B.A., Sociology (with honors), magna cum laude, Tulane University. 1995.

Junior year abroad at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 1993-1994.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Assistant Professor, 2006 – present

Associate Chair (spring 2011)

Director, Forensic Services Graduate Certificate Program, 2009 – present

Knox College, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Galesburg, Illinois.

Visiting Instructor, September 2005 – August 2006

Gang Crime Prevention Center, Office of the Illinois Attorney General

Director of Research, August 2000 – November 2002

Researcher, October 1998 - August 2000

Lecturer, DePaul University, Department of Sociology, Chicago, IL

September 2001 – June 2005

PRIMARY AREAS OF INTEREST

Communities and Crime, Prisoner Reentry, Gender and Crime, Urban and Community Sociology, Qualitative Research Methods

PUBLICATIONS

Peer reviewed articles and chapters

Leverentz, Andrea (forthcoming 2012). “Narratives of crime and criminals: How places socially construct the crime problem” Sociological Forum 27(2).

Leverentz, Andrea (forthcoming) “Being a good daughter and sister: Families of origin in the reentry of African American female ex-prisoners.” Feminist Criminology.

Leverentz, Andrea. 2011. “The neighborhood context of attitudes towards crime and reentry.” Punishment and Society 13(1): 64-92.

Leverentz, Andrea. 2010. “People, places, and things: How female ex-prisoners negotiate neighborhood.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 39 (6): 646-681. (published online August 18, 2010, doi:10.1177/0891241610377787)

Leverentz, Andrea. 2010. “Barriers to reentry” pp. 359-381 in Lior Gideon and Hung-En Sung (eds.) Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reintegration, and Reentry. Sage Publications.

Deng, Xiaogang, Lening Zhang, and Andrea Leverentz. 2010. “Official corruption during China’s economic transition: Historical patterns, characteristics, and government reactions.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice.

Deng, Xiaogang, Lening Zhang, and Andrea Leverentz. 2009. “The Dual System of Land Use Policy and Its Related Problems in Contemporary China” in Reza Hasmath and Jennifer Hsu (eds.) China in an Era of Transition: Understanding Contemporary State and Society Actors. Palgrave MacMillan.

Leverentz, Andrea. 2006. “The love of a good man? Romantic relationships as a source of support or hindrance for female ex-offenders.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 43 (4): 459-488.

Reports

Leverentz, Andrea (forthcoming). “Blacks and the criminal justice system.” in The State of Black Boston. The William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture (UMass Boston) and the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts.

Leverentz, Andrea. 2011. “Easing the strains of prisoner reentry.” Offender Program Reports: Social and Behavioral Rehabilitation in Prisons, Jails, and the Community 14 (5): 65-66, 78-79. Civic Research Institute.

• Reprinted in Immarigeon, Russ and Larry M. Fehr. 2011. Pathways to Prisoner Reentry: An ACA Reader. American Correctional Association.

Leverentz, Andrea, Juan Carlos Gorlier, and Sarah Hogue. 2008. “Justice for youth, Justicia para las/los jóvenes: Latino/a youth and the juvenile justice system.” The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Scott, Greg, Jodie Dewey, and Andrea Leverentz. 2005. “Community reintegration trajectories: A qualitative comparative study of gang-affiliated and non-gang-affiliated ex-offenders.” Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority.

Leverentz, Andrea. 2003. “Balancing leadership and representativeness in communities.” Research Bulletin, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority.

Leverentz, Andrea and Angela Wiley. 2003. “Community mobilization: Evolution of program implementation.” 2003. Research Bulletin, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority.

Leverentz, Andrea and Jessica Ashley. 2003. “Illinois law enforcement responses to street gangs: Report on officer survey.” Gang Crime Prevention Center, Office of the Illinois Attorney General.

Book Reviews

Review of Codd, Helen, 2008. In the Shadow of Prison: Families, Imprisonment, and Criminal Justice. Cullumpton: Willan Publishing. Punishment and Society (forthcoming).

Review of Pager, Devah, 2007. Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. American Journal of Sociology vol. 114, no. 6 issue, May 2009.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS

Leverentz, Andrea. The Ex-prisoner’s dilemma: How women negotiate competing narratives of reentry and desistance. (book manuscript; working title)

Martinez, Damian and Andrea Leverentz. “In it for the long haul: The utility of former prisoner-family social support exchanges.” (article)

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

“A year in the life: How the lives of criminal justice system-involved women changed (and didn’t change) over the course of a year and how they understood these changes.” Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, February 2012, New York, New York (invited panel).

“Negotiating conventional markers of success with the stigma of incarceration.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2011, Washington, D.C. (invited panel).

“Narratives about crime and place and their connection to attitudes about punishment and redeemability.” Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, March 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana.

“For the love of family: Families of origin in the reentry of African American female ex-prisoners.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2010, Atlanta, Georgia.

“The effects of maternal incarceration on childhood disadvantage.” (with John Eason). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2010, Atlanta, Georgia.

“A day in the life: How women ex-prisoners spend their time and its relevance to desistance and reentry support services.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, March 2010, Boston, Massachusetts.

“Learning to live again: How a halfway house shapes the reentry experiences for female ex-prisoners.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2009, Philadelphia, PA.

“’Money, drugs, guns, and who they have a beef with’: How local communities frame crime and prisoner reentry.’ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2009, San Francisco, California.

“The social construction of prisoner reentry.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2008, St. Louis, Missouri.

“Neighborhood context of attitudes towards crime and reentry.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2008, Boston, Massachusetts.

“Telling it like it is: Therapeutic communities as the generators of pro- and anti-social networks.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2007, Atlanta, Georgia.

“Public attitudes towards crime and reentry in neighborhood context: Does salience impact perception?” Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, August 2007, New York, New York.

“’I put her through a particular hell’: The role of family and friends in onset and desistance.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2006, Los Angeles, California.

“People, places, and things: The neighborhood context of female offender reentry.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2006, Montreal, Quebec.

“The meaning and impact of neighborhood for female ex-offenders.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2005, Toronto, Ontario

“The love of a good man? Romantic relationships as a source of support or hindrance.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“Female ex-offenders and their social networks: Relationships as a source of support or hindrance.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2004, Nashville, Tennessee.

“One hundred percent customer satisfaction: How a program fails while pleasing everyone.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 1999, Chicago, Illinois.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Joseph P. Healey Grant, University of Massachusetts Boston. “Patterns of Prisoner Reentry in Suffolk County.” $7,500 (2010-2011). Principal Investigator.

Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice. “National-Scope Demonstration Project to Integrate Crime Victims’ Issues into University and College Curricula.” Awarded to University of Massachusetts Lowell (2010-2012; Linda Williams, Principal Investigator). Investigator for Sub-award to University of Massachusetts Boston.

Bureau of Justice Assistance, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program. “Maintenance of Independence and Sobriety Through Systems Integration and Outreach Networking: Community Re-Entry and Trauma Recovery Program for Women (MISSION-CREW).” Awarded to the University of Massachusetts Medical School (2009-2011; Debra Pinals, M.D. and Laura Guy, M.D., Principal Investigators). Lead evaluator.

William Monroe Trotter Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston, Fellowship for Research on the Impact of CORI Laws on the African American Community, “Crime and Reentry in Neighborhood Context,” $10,000 (2007-2008). Principal Investigator.

Center for Social Policy, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston. Small Grants Program. “Public Opinion toward Crime and Reentry in Massachusetts,” $5,000 (2006-2007). Principal Investigator.

Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago, Graduate Research and Travel Grant. “The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Ex-Inmate Reentry is ‘Managed’.” $5,000. (2004 -- 2005).

National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, Graduate Research Fellowship, Grant No. 2003-IJ-CX-1005. “The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Ex-Offender Reentry is ‘Managed’.” $20,000 (2003 -- 2004). Principal Investigator.

Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, Research Grant #22076: “Community Mobilization: Best Practices and Lessons Learned.” $24,000. (2002 -- 2003) Principal Investigator.

University of Chicago, Century Scholarship (1995 – 2000)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Crime and Justice Summer Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. July 2010.

Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network (RDCJ-N)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• Multilevel modeling using STATA; one week program, 2011.

• National Institute of Justice-sponsored one week data resources program workshop entitled “Criminal Justice Data: Integrating Qualitative Data with Quantitative Studies.” (2000; competitive admission)

TEACHING

UMass Boston

Undergraduate Courses

Criminology, Corrections, Drugs and Society, Criminological Statistics and Data Analysis

Graduate (MA) Courses

The Nature of Crime, Responses to Crime, Qualitative Methods, Masters Paper Seminar (co-taught)

MA Thesis Advising

Rahsaan Mahadeo (chair; 2009)

Matthew Filteau (chair; 2008)

Undergraduate Advising

Alena Sullivan (honors thesis, co-chair; 2010)

Center for the Improvement of Teaching Faculty Seminar (participant; spring 2008)

Knox College

Undergraduate Courses

Contemporary Social Issues, Social Constructions of Deviance, Mass Media and Crime, Research Seminar

Undergraduate Advising

Heather Courtney (Theater honors project, committee member; 2006)

Julio Trujillo (Anthropology/Sociology honors project, committee member; 2006)

DePaul University

Undergraduate Courses

Theories of Crime and Delinquency, Courts and Corrections, Women and Crime, Social Deviation, Law and Society, Sociology of Law

Graduate (MA) Courses

Institutional Responses to Deviance, Gangs

University of Chicago

Undergraduate Courses

Punishment and Modern Society (Robert E. Park Lectureship), The Role of Law and Law Enforcement in Society (summer course), Field Research in Public Policy (TA; Martha van Haitsma, Instructor), Problems of Policy Implementation (TA; Chad Broughton, Instructor)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/SERVICE

University of Massachusetts Boston

Executive committee, Sociology department, 2010-2011

Standards and Credits committee, College of Liberal Arts, 2009-present

Part-time faculty review committee, Sociology department, 2009-present

Sociology department faculty search committee, 2007-2008, 2009-2010, 2010-2011

Applied sociology graduate program committee, 2006-2009

Criminal justice program committee, 2006-present

Social events committee, Sociology department, 2006-2007

American Sociological Association

Crime, Law, and Deviance Roundtables co-organizer, 2011

American Society of Criminology

Student Paper Award Committee, 2007

Division of Corrections and Sentencing Division Awards Committee, 2006

Session chair (2009: Collateral consequences; 2008: Contexts and challenges of reentry for women, Gender, media and moral panic; 2006: Issues in qualitative research)

Discussant (The gendered nature of offending), 2006

Society for the Study of Social Problems

Session organizer, Crime and inequality in communities, 2011

Session organizer, Grass-roots community development practices and social change, 2010

Student paper award committee, Community Research and Development Division, 2010 (member), 2011 (chair)

Occasional reviewer

American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Criminology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Crime and Delinquency, Social Problems, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Feminist Criminology, Punishment and Society, Sociological Compass, Sociological Inquiry, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Roxbury Publishing Company, Sage Publishing Company, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, National Science Foundation (Law and Social Sciences Program)

Manuscript review board, American Journal of Sociology, September 2003 - August 2004

Association memberships:

American Sociological Association

Crime, Law, and Deviance Section

Community and Urban Section

American Society of Criminology

Division on Corrections and Sentencing

Division on Women and Crime

Eastern Sociological Society

Society for the Study of Social Problems

Community Research and Development Division

Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division

Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division

Urban Affairs Association

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