MEGHAN G. McDOWELL CURRICULUM VITAE Winston Salem State University Department of History, Politics, and Social Justice Winston-Salem, NC 27110 mcdowellmg@wssu.edu 928-607-1307 UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS 2020 – 2021 Visiting Faculty Fellow in the Humanities Duke University 2016 – Present Assistant Professor Department of History, Politics, & Social Justice Winston Salem State University 2015 – 2016 Assistant Professor Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice Old Dominion University EDUCATION 2015 Doctorate of Philosophy, Justice & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University Dissertation: ‘Block parties not jails!’ (Re)imagining public safety in a carceral state. 2008 Master’s of Science, Applied Criminology, Northern Arizona University Thesis: Marked bodies: Race, immigration, and global disciplinary strategies. 2004 Bachelor’s of Science, Criminal Justice & Psychology, Guilford College RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Race & Social Control Critical Prison Studies Immigration & Justice Community Research Methods Abolitionist Theory & Praxis Environmental Crime & Justice PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS McDowell, M.G. (Forthcoming 2022). ‘No one is disposable’: Justice, safety, and the Black radical imaginary. Accepted for publication in Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, & World Order. 1 McDowell, M.G. and L.A. Fernandez (2018). ‘Disband, disempower, and disarm’: Amplifying the theory and practice of police abolition. Critical Criminology, 26(3), 373-391. DOI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10612-018-9400-4 McDowell, M.G. (2017). Insurgent safety: Theorizing alternatives to state protection. Theoretical Criminology, 1 – 17, 23(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480617713984 McDowell, M.G. (2013). ‘Becoming a waste land where nothing can survive’: Resisting state-corporate crime in a ‘forgotten place.’ Contemporary Justice Review, 16(4), 394411. DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10282580.2013.857094 McDowell, M.G. and L.A. Fernandez (2012). Sobre la Vida Insostenible in el Estado de Arizona: Immigration Y Limpieza Etnica. Revista Juridica Argentina, 3(2), 211-233. McDowell, M.G. and N.A. Wonders (2010). Keeping migrants in their place: Technologies of control and racialized public space in Arizona. Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, & World Order, 36(2), 54-72. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/29768537 BOOK CHAPTERS McDowell, M.G. and A. Reed (Forthcoming 2022). Power mapping the Capitol: Notes on abolitionist pedagogy and captive study. Accepted for publication in Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons, Alexander, P.E. and S. Smith-McKoy (eds), Modern Language Association. McDowell, M.G. (Forthcoming 2022). To end police brutality, we must end the police. Accepted for publication in the Routledge History of Police Brutality, Aiello, Thomas (ed). Routledge. McDowell, M.G. and L. Fernandez (Forthcoming 2022). ‘Fund the people, not police!’ The movement to defund law enforcement. Accepted for publication in No Justice, No Police? The Politics of Protest and Social Change, Clement, M. (ed). Zero Books. McDowell, M.G. and A. Reed (2018). ‘Can a poem stop a jail from being built?’ On fugitive counter-ethics as prison pedagogy. In Prison Pedagogies: Learning and Teaching with Imprisoned Writers, Lockhard, J. and S. Rankins-Robertson (eds), pp. 216-243. New York: Syracuse University Press. Mahosky, K. and M.G. McDowell (2017). Imprisoning disability: Difference, punishment, and the criminal justice system. In Investigating Difference: Human and Cultural Relations in Criminal Justice, 3rd ed, pp. 300 – 310. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. 2 McDowell, M.G. and D.M. Provine (2013) S.B. 1070: Testing the frustration hypothesis. In Latino Politics and International Relations: The Case of Arizona’s Immigration Law SB 1070, Magana, L. and E. Lee (eds.), pp. 55-78. New York: Springer Press. Michalowski, R. and M.G. McDowell (2011). International environmental issues. In Environmental Crime: Enforcement, Policy, and Social Responsibility, 2nd ed., Clifford, M. and T.D. Edwards (eds.), pp. 315-339. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning. Broody-Hart, C. and M.G. McDowell (2008). The invisible minority: Individuals with disability in the criminal justice system. In Investigating Difference: Human and Cultural Relations in Criminal Justice, 2nd ed., pp.189-196. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. UNDER REVIEW Gámez, G., and M.G. McDowell (Under Review). Decarcerate safety! Abolitionist visions of harm reduction. Submitted to Contemporary Justice Review, August 2021. MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS ‘Block parties not jails!’ Building insurgent safety in a carceral state. Book Manuscript. Prepared for submission to Rutgers University Press, Critical Issues in Crime and Society series. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2016 – present: Assistant Professor, Winston Salem State University Theoretical Perspectives on Justice Research Methods Critical Perspectives on Justice Administration U.S. Social Movements from 1960 – Present Prisons and Punishment in U.S. Society The War on Drugs Contemporary Issues in Justice 2015 – 2016 Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University Introduction to Criminology Police Violence & Mass Incarceration in the U.S. The Neoliberal Carceral State (Graduate Course) 2013 – 2014 Affiliate Faculty, Guilford College Environmental Crime & Justice 2010 – 2015 Graduate Teaching Associate, Arizona State University Introduction to Justice Studies Racial Justice (Online Course) Justice Theory (Online Course) 3 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS McDowell, M.G. (2019). “Keywords in abolition: Racial capitalism.” Presented at the national meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA. McDowell, M.G. (2018). ‘No one is disposable’: Justice, Safety, and the Radical Imaginary. Presented at the national meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Philadelphia, PA. McDowell, M.G. (2018). “Abolitionist Praxis Against the Carceral State.” Presented at the New Directions in Critical Criminology Conference, Richmond, KY. McDowell, M.G. and LA. Fernandez (2017). “Theorizing Police Abolition.” Presented at the national meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal Canada. McDowell, M.G. (2016). “Insurgent Safety and Exilic Spaces,” presented at the national meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, LA. McDowell, M.G. (2016). ‘We Don’t Need the Police to Keep Us Safe’: Identifying Abolitionist Alternatives to State Protection, presented at New Directions in Critical Criminology, Knoxville, TN. McDowell, M.G. (2015). “Countering Domestic Warfare: Reimagining Public Safety in Durham, North Carolina,” presented at the national meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, D.C. Panel Chair. McDowell, M.G. (2014). ‘Who do you serve? Who do you protect?’ (Re)imagining Public Safety in a Carceral State,” presented at the national meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, CA. McDowell, M.G. and LA. Fernandez. (2012). “Retooling Criminology in an Era of Global Danger: Untenable Life and Locomotion,” presented at the national meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL. McDowell, M.G. and L.A. Fernandez. (2012). “Refusing Untenable Life: Organizing for the Freedom to Live, Love, and Work Wherever You Please,” presented at the national meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Denver, CO. McDowell, M.G. and L.A. Fernandez. (2011). “Untenable Lives: Ethnic Cleansing in Arizona?” presented at the national meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC. Fernandez, L.A. and M.G. McDowell. (2011). “The Consequences of ‘Attrition through Enforcement’: Immigrant Lived-Experience in Post SB-1070 Arizona,” presented at the national meeting of the Law and Society Association. San Francisco, CA. 4 McDowell, M.G. (2011). “Contesting Erasure: Migrant Strategies of Resistance in Post-SB1070 Arizona,” presented at Northern Arizona University’s Graduate Student Conference. Flagstaff, AZ. McDowell, M.G. (2010). “Mapping State Control: Qualitative Research Strategies and Migrant Experience,” presented at the national meeting of the American Society of Criminology. San Francisco, CA. McDowell, M.G. and N.A. Wonders. (2009). “Technologies of Control, Enforcement Rituals, and Racialized Public Space: Migrant Narratives in Arizona,” presented at the national meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. McDowell, M.G. and N.A. Wonders. (2009). “Disciplining Public Space: Race, Immigration, and (Il)legality in Arizona,” presented at the national meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco, CA. Kelly, M., F.I. Solop, and M.G. McDowell. (2009). “Identifying Indigenous Community Visitor Needs at Bandelier National Monument,” presented at the national meeting of the George Wright Society. Portland, OR. McDowell, M.G. (2008). “Marked Bodies: Globalization, Immigration, and Racialized Public Space,” presented at the national meeting of the American Society of Criminology. St. Louis, MO. McDowell, M.G. (2007). “Racial Profiling and Public Space,” presented at the national meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Atlanta, GA. Wonders, N.A., F.I. Solop, and M.G. McDowell. (2007). “Race, Place, and the Law: Lessons from a Decade of Racial Profiling Research,” presented at the national meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. New York, NY. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Undergraduate Scholarship in the Humanities Faculty Fellow, 2021 – 2022, WSSU Humanities Unbounded Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Duke University, 2020 – 2021 Justice & Social Inquiry Summer Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Arizona State University, 2014. ASU Graduate Student Research Support Program Grantee, Arizona State University, Graduate & Professional Student Association, 2013 –2014. Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University, 2007 – 2008. 5 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & DEVELOPMENT Certified Instructor, the Inside-Outside Prison Exchange Program. Critical Participatory Action Research Training Institute, The Graduate Center at CUNY. Co-founder, Humanities Behind Bars: a community-based education program and organizing collective. Instructor, States of Incarceration, Humanities Action Lab Reviewer, Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order Reviewer, Theoretical Criminology Chair, Lee Founders Student Scholarship Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2017 – 2018 term. Program Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2017 – 2018 term. Elections Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2011 – 2012 term. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, Society for the Study of Social Problems Member, American Society of Criminology Member, Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics 6