Eastern State Penitentiary

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EDUCATION:

 

Combined Ph.D. in Criminal Justice and American Studies:

Indiana University, 2003

 

M.A. Criminal Justice: Indiana University, 1997

 

B.A. Comparative Literature (Film Studies): Indiana University, 1993

 

 

RESEARCH  and TEACHING INTERESTS:

 

Punishment & Society

Cultural Criminology

Law & Society

Risk & Society

Justice Studies

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

 

Books:

Brown, Michelle. Forthcoming, 2009. The Work of Punishment: Culture and Imprisonment. New York: New York University Press.

 

Chermak, Steven, Frankie Bailey, and Michelle Brown (eds.). 2003. Media Images of September 11^th. Newport, CT: Praeger Publishers (Crime, Media, and Popular Culture series).

 

Articles:

Brown, Michelle. 2008. "Aftermath: Living with the Crisis: From PTC to Governing through Crime." Crime, Media, Culture, 4, 1: 131-136.

 

Brown, Michelle. 2008. "Indefinite Detention and Emergent Patterns in American Punishment." Criminal Justice Matters, 71: 18-19.

 

Brown, Michelle. 2007. “Beyond the Requisites: Alternative Starting Points in the Study of Media Effects and Youth Violence,” Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 14, 1 (Special Issue: Youth Violence): 1-20.

 

Brown, Michelle. 2007. “Mapping Discursive Closings in the War on Drugs,” Crime, Media, Culture, 3, 1: 11-29.

 

Brown, Michelle. 2007. “Transnational Intersections in U.S. Punishment Post-9/11,” Prison Service Journal, 169, 1: 37-41.

 

Brown, Michelle. 2005. “‘Setting the Conditions’ for Abu Ghraib: The Prison Nation Abroad,” American Quarterly, 57, 3 (Special Issue: Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders), 973-997.

 

2006. Reprint: “‘Setting the Conditions’ for Abu Ghraib: The Prison Nation Abroad” in Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders, Eds. Mary L. Dudziak and Leti Volpp.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006: 381-405. 

 

Book Chapters:

Brown, Michelle.  Forthcoming, 2009. “The Problem of Pain in Punishment: Theory and Image in the Era of Social Exclusion” in The Arts of Imprisonment: Control, Resistance and Empowerment. Ed. Leonidas Cheliotis. Aldershot: Ashgate.

 

Hoffman, Bruce and Michelle Brown. In Press, 2009. “Staging an Execution: The Media at McVeigh” in Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image. Eds. Keith Hayward and Mike Presdee. London: Routledge.

 

Brown, Michelle. 2007. “The Abu Ghraib Torture and Prisoner Abuse Scandal” in Crimes and Trials of the Century.  Eds. Steven Chermak and Frankie Y. Bailey. Newport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 305-323.

 

Brown, Michelle. 2006. “The Aesthetics of Crime” in Philosophy, Crime and Criminology. Eds. Bruce A. Arrigo and Christopher R. Williams.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 223-256.

 

Brown, Michelle. 2006. “The New Penology in a Critical Context” in Advancing Critical Criminology: Theory and Application. Eds. Walter DeKeseredy and Barbara Perry. Lexington, MD: Lexington Books, 101-123.

 

Brown, Michelle. 2004. “H.H. Holmes, Multiple Murderer” in Famous American Crimes and Trials, Newport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 161-179.

 

Brown, Michelle, Leah Fuzesi, Kara Kitch, and Crystal Spivey. 2003. “Internet News Representations of September 11th: Archival Impulse in the Age of Information” in Media Images of September 11th, Newport, CT: Praeger Publishers (Crime, Media, and Popular Culture series), 103-116.