Cindy Brooks Dollar - SOC | UNCG
Cindy Brooks Dollar
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Department of Sociology
cbdollar@uncg.edu
EDUCATION
2014 North Carolina State University, Ph.D. Sociology
[entered 2009]
2001 University of North Carolina-Greensboro, M.A., Sociology
1999 University of North Carolina-Greensboro, B.A., Sociology
Magna Cum Laude
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Sociology of Crime, Harm, and Control; Criminological Theory; Inequalities
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2020 – Present University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Associate Professor
2014 – 2019 University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Assistant Professor
2009 - 2014 North Carolina State University, Graduate Student Instructor
2003 - 2012 University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Instructor
2001 - 2003 RTI International, Survey Specialist
1999 - 2009 Socio-Legal Consultant, Legal Case Manager
Conducted focus groups, located and interviewed pre-trial witnesses, conducted post-trial juror interviews, examined case files for breaches in state and federal laws
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. Forthcoming. “Trauma, Yoga, and Trauma Recovery: From the Clinical
to the Sociological.” In Realizing Nonviolent Resilience: Neoliberalism, Societal Trauma, and Marginalized Voice, edited by Jeremy Rinker and Jerry Lawler. New York: Peter Lang.
Tittle, Charles R. and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2019. “Control Balance Theory of Deviance.” In
Handbook of Crime and Deviance, 2nd edition, edited by Marvin Krohn, Gina Penley Hall, Alan J. Lizotte & Nicole Hendrix. New York: Springer.
Ray, Bradley and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2018. “Procedural Justice and Compliance in
Problem-Solving Courts.” In Contextualizing Compliance: Individual Motivations, Social Processes and Institutional Design, edited by S. Siddiki, T. Heikkila, and S. Espinosa. New York: Routledge.
(Peer Reviewed Publications, continued)
Journal Articles (*graduate student)
Bethune, Kristen* and Cindy Brooks Dollar. Forthcoming. “Explaining Collegiate Sexual
Assault Offending and Victimization Using a Feminized Routine Activities Framework” Sociation.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2020. “Therapeutically (Un)Just Interactions in Family Court
Proceedings.” Criminal Justice Policy Review 31(2): 262-286.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks, Ellen Donnelly and Karen Parker. 2019 “Joblessness, Poverty and
Neighborhood Crime: Testing Wilson’s Assertions of Jobless Poverty” Social Currents 6(4): 343–360
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2019. “Criminalization and Drug ‘Wars’ or Medicalization and Health
‘Epidemics’: How Race, Class, and Neoliberal Politics Influence Drug Laws.” Critical
Criminology. 27(2): 305-327.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks, Bradley Ray, Mary Kay Hudson, and Brittany J. Hood*. 2018.
“Examining Changes in Procedural Justice and Their Influence on Problem-Solving Court Outcomes.” Behavioral Sciences & the Law 36(1): 32-45.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks and Joshua Hendrix. 2018. “I’m Not a Traditional Woman:” Tranquilizer
Misuse as Self-Medication Among Adult Women” American Behavioral Scientist 62(11): 1562-1585.
Hendrix, Joshua and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2017. “American Slaughterhouses and the Need for
Speed: An Examination of the Meatpacking-Methamphetamine Hypothesis” Organization & Environment 30(2) 1-19.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks, Patricia McCall, Kenneth Land, and Joshua Fink*. 2017 “Age Structure
and Neighborhood Homicide: A Test and Elaboration of the Differential Institutional Engagement Hypothesis.” Homicide Studies 21(3): 1-24.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2017. “Does the Use of Binary Indicators Reify Difference and
Inequality?” Women’s Studies International Forum 61(2): 9–13.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2017. “Sex Ratios, Single Motherhood, and Gendered Structural
Relations: Examining Female-Headed Families across Racial-Ethnic Populations.” Sociological Focus 50(4): 375-390.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2015. “Sex Ratio Effects on Marital Formation and Dissolution, 1980-
2000.” Sociological Inquiry 85(4): 556-575.
(Peer Reviewed Publications, continued)
Dollar, Cindy Brooks and Joshua Hendrix. 2015. “The Importance of Romantic and Work
Relations on Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use Among Adults.” Sociological Spectrum 35(5): 465-481.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks and Bradley Ray. 2015. “The Practice of Reintegrative Shaming in Mental
Health Court.” Criminal Justice Policy Review, Special Issue on Restorative Justice and Community Corrections 26(1): 29-44.
Ray, Bradley and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2014. “Exploring Stigmatization and Stigma
Management in Mental Health Court: Assessing Modified Labeling Theory in a New Context.” Sociological Forum 29(3): 720-735.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2014. “Conceptual Remixing in Criminology: Tracing Durkheim and
Marx’s Influence on Etiological Theories of Crime.” Sociology Compass 8(10): 1157-1166.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2014. “Racial Threat Theory: Assessing the Evidence, Requesting
Redesign.” Journal of Criminology .
Ray, Bradley and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2013. “Examining Mental Health Court Completion: A
Focal Concerns Perspective.” The Sociological Quarterly 54(4): 647-699.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks and Bradley Ray. 2013. “Adult Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use: An
Examination of Bond Theory.” Deviant Behavior 34(11): 932-949.
McCall, Patricia L., Kenneth C. Land, Cindy Brooks Dollar, Karen F. Parker. 2013. “The Age
Structure-Crime Rate Relationship: Solving a Long-Standing Puzzle.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 29(2): 167-190.
Anderson, Alecia D., Andrea N. Hunt, Rachel E. Powell, Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2013. “Student
Perceptions of Teaching Transparency.” The Journal of Effective Teaching 13(2): 38-47.
Ray, Bradley, Cindy Brooks Dollar and Kelly Thames. 2011. “Mental Health Courts as
Reintegrative Shaming.” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 34: 49-55.
(In Progress)
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. Under Contract. I Never Wanted to Be a Stereotype: A Sociologist’s Narrative of Healing. New York: Peter Lang.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. Hallucinogen Use Among a Diverse Sample.
RESEARCH-RELATED BLOGS
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2019. Personal Trauma, Social Pain, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Renewing Focus on an Existential Sociology. International Society for Therapeutic Jurisprudence. (also via twitter @intlTJsociety)
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2019. Are Family Courts Therapeutically Just? Council on Contemporary Families Brief Report.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS (*=with UNCG graduate student co-presenter)
2020 “Hallucinogen Use Among a Diverse Sample” scheduled to present at the annual meeting of Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco [Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic]
2019 “Linking and Transcending Personal Trauma and Social Pain” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York
“Personal Trauma, Social Pain, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Renewing Focus on an
Existential Sociology” presented at the International Congress of Law and Mental Health, Rome, Italy
2017 “Drug Use as Self-Medication: An Investigation of Anti-Anxiety Prescription Drug “Misuse” Among Adult Women” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Are Family Courts Therapeutically Just?” presented at the annual meeting of the Society
for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal, Canada
2016 “Drug Use as Self-Medication? Tranquilizer Misuse among Adult Women” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Seattle, Washington.
“Jobs or Poverty? The Jobs, Poverty, Social Isolation Nexus with Neighborhood Crime.”
presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Do Routine Activities Explain Collegiate Sexual Assault?” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, Louisiana*
“Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Crime across Large, Urban Areas” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, Louisiana*
2015 “Observations of Family Court” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society
of Criminology, Washington, D.C.
(Professional Presentations, continued)
2015 “Sex Ratio Effects on Marital Fertility, 1970-2000” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana
2014 “The Importance of Romantic and Work Relations on Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use among Adults” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Charlotte, North Carolina
2013 “The Effects of Differential Institutional Engagement on Neighborhood Homicide,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, Georgia
2013 “Shame Management among Mental Health Court Participants,” presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, New York
2012 “Differential Degrees of Institutional Engagement and the Direction of the Age Structure-
Homicide Relationship,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, Chicago, Illinois
2012 “Success Stories and “Superstars” in North Carolina’s First Mental Health Court,”
presented at the annual North Carolina Criminal Justice Association, Raleigh, NC
2011 “Disparities in Mental Health Court,” presented at the annual meeting of the American
Society of Criminology, Washington, D.C.
“Examining Mental Health Court Decision Making,” presented at the annual meeting of
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas, Nevada
“The Relationship of the Young Adult Age Structure to a City's Homicide Rate” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, California
2010 “Mental Health Courts as Reintegrative Shaming” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta, GA
1999 “Spousal Homicide: A Regional Analysis” presented at the annual meeting of American Society of Criminology, Toronto, Canada
“Familial Homicide: A Socio-Legal Context” presented at the annual meeting of
International Family Violence Conference University of New Hampshire, Durham, New
Hampshire
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS
2019 “Personal Trauma, Social Pain, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Renewing Focus on an Existential Sociology” presented at the International Congress of Law and Mental Health, Rome, Italy
2019 “Criminology as a Multicultural Issue.” UNCG Middle College
2018 “Getting into a Ph.D. Program.” UNCG, Department of Sociology Graduate Studies
2018 “Paint a Message: Original Student Expressions of a Personal and Global Message.” McCormick and Lexington Residence Halls, UNCG
2018 “‘I’m Not a ‘Traditional’ Woman’: Tranquilizer Misuse as Self-Medication Among
Adult Women.” UNCG Sociology Department Brown Bag Series.
2017 “Racialization and Gendering in Crime, Deviance and Social Control.’” High Point University, North Carolina Sociological Association (NCSA) annual meeting (Panel Organizer and Presider)
2016 “Examining Underexamined Problem-Solving Courts.” American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, Louisiana (Panel Organizer and Presider)
2016 “Sexual Violence.” American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, Louisiana (Roundtable Discussant)
2016 “What Does Sociology Have to Do with Me and My Life?” UNCG, Phillips-Hawkins Residence Hall Speaker Series
2014 “Fighting Inequality and Creating Social Justice in our Changing World.” UNCG, Harriet Elliot Lecture Series
2012 School and Extra-Curricular Inequalities, Delinquency, and Discipline.” American Society of Criminology, Chicago, Illinois (Panel Discussant and Presider)
2011 “Using Sociology in Everyday Life.” UNCG, Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society.
GRANTS, FUNDED
2019: Open Education Initiative Minigrant; University Library, Collection Management, and Scholarly Communication, ($1,000). University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2018: “The Effects of Yoga on Anxiety, Community and Quality of Life” Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, ($300). University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2015: “Therapeutic Justice and Family Court” New Faculty Internal Grant ($5,000). University of North Carolina at Greensboro
GRANTS, NOT FUNDED
2019 “Trauma & Recovery: From the Personal to the Social.” Faculty Grant, University of
North Carolina at Greensboro
2019 “Yoga’s Effect on Trauma Recovery: From the Personal to the Social.” Faculty First
Grant, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2015 “Therapeutic Justice and Family Court.” Faculty First Summer Scholarship Support
Award, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2014 “Judicial Decision-making, Therapeutic Justice, and Families: Observations of a Family Court.” New Faculty Internal Grant, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
AWARDS, HONORS, AND RECOGNITIONS
2019: Junior Faculty Research Award [Nominated, not awarded]
2019: Teaching Excellence Award for a Non-Tenure Track Faculty [Nominated, not awarded]
2018: Faculty Excellence in Research and Creative Activity [Nominated, not awarded]
2017: Candace Bernard and Robert Glickman Dean’s Professorship
2016: Teaching Innovations Office (TIO) Grant
2013: Stanford M. Lyman Memorial Scholarship [Nominated, not awarded]
2013: Dissertation Completion Grant [Nominated, not awarded]
2011: Travel Grant Award to attend National Conference on Restorative Justice
1999: David and Marlene Pratto Scholarship in Sociology
1998: Greensboro Graduate Scholar Award [Nominated, not awarded]
1998: Undergraduate Research Assistantship Award
1998: Alpha Kappa Delta, Sociology Honor Society
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2020: College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Online Course Conversion
2018 Safe Zone Training, UNCG (1.0, 2.0, Trans Zone)
2018 Community-Engaged Narrative Methodologies Workshop, UNCG
2018 Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), Continuing Education
2018 Yoga Intensive Training Program, Living Path of an Enlightened Yogi
2017 200-YTT and Certification, Living Path of an Enlightened Yogi
2016 Online Learning Incubator Course Project, UNCG
2016 Lilly Conference on College and University Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning
2014 Applied Spatial Analysis using R, UNC Odum Institute, 6-week Short Course
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Study for the Society of Social Problems
International Society of Therapeutic Jurisprudence
North Carolina Sociological Association
Southern Sociological Society
American Society of Criminology
INVITED GUEST LECTURES
2019 “Yoga for Relaxation and Restoration,” Graduate Thesis Seminar, UNCG
2017 “Creating your Writing Process,” Graduate Research Methods, UNCG
2017 “Doing Criminology Research,” Graduate Thesis Seminar, UNCG
2016 “The Methods I Use & How I Write,” Graduate Research Methods, UNCG
2016 “Potential Avenues for Research in Criminology,” Graduate Thesis Seminar, UNCG
2015 “The Social History of Drug Use,” Introduction to Sociology, UNCG
2014 “Drugs & Society,” Introduction to Sociology, UNCG
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate level
Introduction to Sociology (traditional and distance learning)
Current Social Problems (traditional and distance learning)
Social Deviance (traditional and distance learning)
Introduction to Data Analysis
Criminal Justice
Criminology
Drugs & U.S. Society
Considering Ourselves Offenders, Victims, and Survivors
Internships in Sociology
The Relationship between School Racial Composition and Student Health (independent study)
Attorney Perceptions of Judicial Discretion (independent study)
Social and Demographic Correlates of School Shootings (independent study)
The Carceral State, Mental Health, and the African American Experience (independent study)
How to Write Personal Narratives (independent study)
Graduate level
Criminology Seminar
Advanced Data Analysis
Social Control Seminar
Racialization and Gendering of Athletic Bodies (independent study)
Double Stigmas: Mental Health Concerns among African Americans (independent study)
Slave Patrols and the Origin of American Policing (independent study)
Social Media Portrayals of Black American Women (independent study)
Racial Disparities in Sentencing among Women Defendants (independent study)
Somatic Therapeutics in the Carceral State (independent study)
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING
Thesis Committees, Chair
*Natalie Cholula. Completed 2020. Title: Social Participation of Racialized Immigrants Living
Under Crimmigration Law. Awarded William Knox Graduate Scholarship, 2019.
*Jerry Brand. Completed 2019. Title: Police Brutality as an Extension of White Supremacy: Social Control of African Americans in Contemporary America
*Mackenzie Green. Completed 2018. Title: The Inevitable Retreat: Mate Selection and the Role
of Framing in Black Communities. Named Outstanding Graduate Student, 2018. Awarded William Knox Graduate Scholarship, 2017.
*Mary John. Completed 2018. Title: Lone Survivor: Linking Institutionalized Racial Adversity,
Lived Experiences, and Mental Health Conditions among African Americans. Awarded Thesis Completion Funds, 2018.
*LaToya Dixon (co-chair). Completed 2017. Title: America’s Backbone: A Contemporary
Analysis of Black Women and the Trap of Loyalty. Awarded David and Marlene Pratto Scholarship, 2017.
*Jon Tostoe. Completed 2017. Title: Socioeconomic Factors and Crime across Large, Urban
Neighborhoods. Received Sociology Graduate Student Award, 2016.
*Kristen Bethune. Competed May 2016. Title: A Perfect Storm? Using a Feminized Routine
Activity Framework to Analyze the Factors that Contribute to Female Undergraduate Sexual Assault. Awarded William Knox Scholarship, 2016.
Thesis & Dissertation Committees, Member
-Kelly Childress, In progress. Topic: Carceral Feminism and Incarcerated African American
Women
-Elizabeth Moberly, In progress. Topic: Sexual Assault in the Age of the #MeToo Movement
-Jaclyn Gitlis, In progress. Topic: The Barriers of Poverty in School and Education
-Holly Brown, In progress. Topic: The Stigma of Paganism
-Abdullah Oguz (PhD candidate, IMS), Completed 2020. Title: Cyberbullying in Global Virtual
Teams
-Adamma Chidomere. Completed 2019. Topic: Teacher’s Perceptions of Racialized Punishment
in School
-Joseph Barker. Completed 2019. Topic: Mosh Pit Etiquette
-Ena Prskalo, Completed 2019. Title: Racial Inequalities as Depicted on Tumblr
-Tiffany Merritt, Completed 2017. Title: Financial Compensation for Death Row Exonerees
-Allison McMillan, Competed June 2016. Family, Friends, Finance: An Analysis of Income and
Attachment in Friendships and Marriage.
-Caley Cassell, Completed May 2015. Shifts in the Promotion of Thin Beauty Ideals and Racial
Minorities in Seventeen Magazine from 1955 Until 2014
Graduate Internship Committees, Member
-Jordan McIntosh, Completed May 2016. Topic: Explanations of Child Sexual Abuse.
Internship Site: Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, Alamance County Sheriff’s Department,
NC
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ADVISING
*Aaron Percoco. 2020. Writing about the Social and Personal Me. Awarded Outstanding Criminology Student Award, 2019
*Daniel McLaughlin, Disciplinary Honor’s Project. 2019. Attorney Perceptions of Judicial Discretion. Awarded Student Excellence Award & Sociology Theory Prize, 2019
*Andrew Ainsworth, Disciplinary and Lloyd’s International Honor’s Project. 2019. Social Correlates of School Shootings. Awarded David F. Mitchell Sociology Award, 2016. Awarded Lloyd’s International Honors Research Grant, 2018.
*Adam Hively, Disciplinary Honor’s Project. Completed December 2017. School Racial Composition, Health Education and Student Health. Awarded Outstanding Sociology Student Award, Spring 2017.
*Tyrell Spencer, Independent Research Project. BA Completed May 2016. Incarceration and Marital Status: Differences by Race. Awarded Outstanding Criminology Student Award, Spring 2015. Awarded Travel Grant to Present Research at National Criminal Justice Association, 2015
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Service to the Discipline (Sociology and Criminology)
2020-Present Chair of the Lee Student Support Fund Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
2020 Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF). Division of Social and Economic Science, Law and Social Sciences Division
2018-Present Editorial Board, Critical Criminology
2018-Present Editorial Board, Sociation (formerly Sociation Today)
2018 Grant Reviewer, NSF, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, Law and Social
Sciences Division
2015-2018 Executive Committee, North Carolina Sociological Association (NCSA)
2016-2017 Thematic Panel Developer and Presider, American Society of Criminology (ASC)
2011-2013 Membership Committee Member, American Sociology Association’s Crime,
Law & Deviance Section
Peer Reviewer
Journals: Social Problems; Social Science Research; Violence Against Women; Critical
Criminology; Law and Society Review; Crime, Law and Social Change; Deviant Behavior; Feminist Theory; Crime & Delinquency; Homicide Studies; Criminal Justice & Behavior; Social Science & Medicine; Criminal Justice Policy Review; Sociological Inquiry; Journal of Adolescent Health; Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health; Sociation Today; Population Research and Policy Review; Journal of Criminal Justice; International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction; Children and Youth Services Review; European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science; Journal of Basic and Applied Research International
Books: Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims: The Tangible and Intangible Costs of Victimization (Routledge book proposal 2020); Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, & Drifters: A General Theory of Deviance Management (University of California Press 2018); Civil Court Responses to Intimate Partner Violence (Cognella book proposal 2018); Applied Analytical Methods Survival Guide (Kendall Hunt Publishing 2017); Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control (Sage Publishing 2015, 2017); Deviant Behavior (Taylor and Francis 2017)
Service to Community
2019-2020 Community (free) Yoga Classes, B Natural Academy of Music and Arts
2016-2017 Benevolence Farm (Prison Reentry Program for Women) Advisory Member to
Programming
2015-2016 Benevolence Farm, Programming Committee Member
Service to University
2018-2020 Faculty Advisor to UNCG Sapphires (All Female A Cappella Group)
Service to College
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2016-Present Pre-law Advising Committee, Member, College of Arts and Sciences
1998-2001 SACS Student Representative, SACS Steering Committee
Service to Department
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2019-Present Director of Internship Program in Sociology
2019-Present Committee on Annual Review, member
2019 Committee on Promotion & Tenure (P&T) Document Review, member
2018-2019 Curriculum Committee, Chair
2018-2019 Community (free) Yoga for Sociology Majors, Coordinator and Instructor
2018-2019 Faculty Search Committee, Member
2018 Visiting Assistant Professor Search Committee, Member
2016-2017 Assessment Director
2016-2017 Committee for Teaching Evaluations, Chair
2016 Workload Committee, Member
2014-2017 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Member
2014-2017 Senior Lecturer Mentor and Lecturer Advisor
2015-2016 Course Schedule Committee, Member
1999-2001 Faculty-Student Liaison
North Carolina State University
2013 Moodle Instructional Designer
2011-2013 Graduate Student Organizer for Deviance & Social Control Research Symposiums
REFERENCES
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