Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University
About
Sarah Becker is an associate professor jointly appointed in sociology and women's and gender studies at Louisiana State University who also serves as an affiliate faculty member in LSU's African and African American studies program. She received her BA in sociology and writing from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa and MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is an ethnographer and critical scholar whose research focuses on collective responses to crime and disorder. Her work appears in journals such as Women's Studies International Forum, Law and Social Inquiry, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Race and Justice, Critical Criminology, and Feminist Criminology. Her approach to scholarship involves the tight integration of research, teaching, and community-based action.
Current Work:
Dr. Becker's current primary research agenda is a multi-site collaborative ethnography of community gardens and cooperative grassroots organizations in the southern United States. Some of her other ongoing work includes a peer-interview-based study of young people's understandings of barroom aggression and sexual violence (with Dr. Justine Tinkler of the University of Georgia) and a co-authored analysis of rap and hip-hop artists' visions of connections to community (with Dr. Castel Sweet of the University of Dayton).
Research Area Keyword(s):
Intersectionality, ethnography, social control, communities, sexual violence
