Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land

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Assistant Professor, University of Winnipeg, Department of Criminal Justice

b(dot)dobchuk-land(at)uwinnipeg(dot)ca

Education / Research Areas / Publications / Awards and Fellowships / Teaching / Conference Papers / ServiceProfessional Organizations

 


EDUCATION

PhD, Sociology, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center (2017)

Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

MA, Sociology, University of Toronto (2010)

BA Hons, International Development Studies and Economics, McGill University (2008)

 


RESEARCH AREAS

criminology; race and ethnicity; settler colonial studies; community and urban sociology; political sociology; technology and pedagogy

 


PUBLICATIONS

PEER REVIEWED

Dobchuk-Land, Bronwyn. (forthcoming) “Making Settler Colonial Violence Invisible: Fantasies and Failures in Crime Prevention Policy and Programming”, in Anti-Colonial Criminology, (Eds.) Jeffrey Shantz and Lisa Monchalin, Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Dobchuk-Land, Bronwyn, Jim Silver, and Owen Toews. 2010. “Neighbourhood-Level Responses to Safety Concerns in Four Winnipeg Inner-City Neighbourhoods: Reflections on Collective Efficacy,” Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 18.

BOOK REVIEWS

Dobchuk-Land, Bronwyn. 2013. Review of “Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation” in Social Problems Forum: The SSSP Newsletter.

Dobchuk-Land, Bronwyn. 2012. Review of Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the Police” by Elizabeth Comack, in Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 21, Issue 1.

Dobchuk-Land, Bronwyn. 2012. Review of “Fearmonger: Will Stephen Harper’s billions for his tough-on-crime agenda make our streets any safer?” by Paula Mallea, in Canadian Dimension Magazine.

Reviewer for Contemporary Sociology (reviewlets)

OTHER

Counter-mapping in the Criminology ClassroomCUNY Academic Commons, February 2015

Gathering Seeks to Expose Settler Colonialism and Neoliberalism in Winnipeg“, Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, PolicyFix.ca, September 2013

Flickr for Visual Data Research and Analysis“, JustPublics@365, June 2013

Guest co-ordinating editor of A Punishing Regime: Criminal (Justice) in CanadaCanadian Dimension Magazine. September-October 2011.

Dobchuk-Land, Bronwyn. “Alternatives to the Criminal Justice System: Constructing Grassroots Responses Without Widening the Net,” in Canadian Dimension Magazine (September-October 2011).

Dobchuk-Land, Bronwyn, Les Sabiston, Paula Ducharme, and Alex Stearns. “Beyond Police Accountability,” in Canadian Dimension Magazine (September-October 2011).

Dobchuk-Land, Bronwyn, Owen Toews, Alex Stearns, Alex Patterson, Chuck Wright, Milena Placentile, and Shelagh Pizey-Allen. 2012. “Responses to the Expansion of the Criminal Justice System in Manitoba,” in DePape, Brigette (Ed.) Power of Youth: Youth and community-led activism in Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Contributor to the 2006 State of the Inner-City Report: Inner City Voices, Community-based SolutionsCanadian Centre for Policy-Alternatives – Manitoba.

 


AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Marilyn J. Gittell Dissertation Fellowship (2015-2016)

ARC Knickerbocker Archival Research Grant in American Studies (Summer 2015)

Doctoral Student Research Grant, CUNY Graduate Center (Spring 2014)

ARC Knickerbocker Archival Research Grant in American Studies (Summer 2013)

Instructional Technology Fellowship, CUNY Macaulay Honors College (2013-2015)

Digital Fellow with JustPublics@365, CUNY Graduate Center/Ford Foundation (2013)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship (2012)

Canada-U.S. Fulbright Award Finalist (2010)

SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Master’s) (2009-2010)

C.B. MacPherson Fellowship, University of Toronto (2009-2010)

Greville Smith Prestige Scholarship, McGill University (2004-2008)

Millennium Excellence Award National Laureate, Millennium Scholarship Foundation (2004-2008)

Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation Finalist Award (2004)

 


TEACHING

Race and Criminal Justice (CJ 3121), University of Winnipeg (Winter 2016; Winter 2017)

Introduction to Criminal Justice (CJ 1101), University of Winnipeg (Fall-Winter 2015-2016; Fall-Winter 2016-2017)

Instructional Technology FellowNew York City Seminars, CUNY Macaulay Honors College at City College (2013-2015)

Graduate Teaching Fellow, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice (2012-2013)
SOC 203: Criminology

Contract Faculty, University of Winnipeg (2011-2012)
SOC 1101: Introductory Sociology

Graduate Teaching Fellow, CUNY Brooklyn College (Spring 2011)
SOC 3504: Introductory Sociology

Adjunct Lecturer, CUNY Brooklyn College (Fall 2010)
SOC 3504: Criminology

Selected Course Websites

The Peopling of New York City, Spring 2014, Professor Prabal De

Science Forward, Fall 2014, Professor Brian Ford

The Future of New York City, Spring 2015, Professor Maria Binz-Scharf

The Peopling of New York City, Spring 2015, Professor Constance Rosenblum

 


SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Resisting “progressive” carceral expansion: lessons for abolitionists from anti-colonial refusals”, American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Denver, November 2016)

“In defence of the poor? Left realism, liberal carceral expansion, and the future of critical criminology”, Common Study Sessions in Critical Criminology (Porto, May 2016)

“Pushing Abolition Back: Liberal Racism and Liberal Carcerality in Left Realism”, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting (Washington DC, November 2015)

“Community Based Crime Prevention and Carceral Control in Manitoba”, American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Toronto, October 2015)

“Settler Colonialism and Crime Prevention in Manitoba”, Geopolitical Economy Research Group Inaugural Conference: From the Thirty Years’ Crisis to Twenty-first Century Multipolarity: The Evolution of the Twenty-first Century World (Winnipeg, September 2015)

“Social Welfare Politics, Settler Colonial Governance, and Resistance in ‘Crime Prevention’ Programming”, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting (Washington DC, June 2015)

“Liberal ‘Othering’ and the Settler Colonial Imagination”,  American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting (San Francisco, November 2014)

“Teaching Criminology: Helping Students Understand and Critique Data”, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting (San Francisco, November 2014)

“Community-Based ‘Crime Prevention’ and Racialized Incarceration”, Resisting Carceral Nation States: The Fifteenth International Conference on Penal Abolition (Ottawa, June 2013)

“Crime Prevention and the Colonial Imagination”, Common Study Programme in Critical Criminology (London, April 2014)

Workshop: “Reclaiming Violence for Resistance” with Albert Novelozo and Laura Naegler, Penal Law, Abolitionism, and Anarchism (Nottingham, April 2014)

“Criminalisation, ‘Crime Prevention’, and the Canadian Settler State”, Critical Ethnic Studies 2013: Decolonizing Future Intellectual Legacies & Activist Practices (Chicago, September 2013)

“Pacification and Punishment: Harnessing ‘Unruly’ Indigenous Youth in Western Canada”, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting: Sustainable Communities/Sustainable Lives (Boston, March 2013)

Workshop: “Whose Winnipeg? Neoliberalism, Settler Colonialism, and the Production of Urban Space” with Owen Toews, Natalia Ilyniak, Noni Brynjolson, Kate Sjoberg, and David Hugill, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (Los Angeles, April 2013)

“Demanding Police Accountability: Limits and Possibilities” and “Policing in High Schools,” 2nd International Copwatching Conference. Winnipeg, June 2011.

“A Critical Response to Collective Efficacy Theory: Experience from Community-level Responses to Crime in Winnipeg,” Canadian Sociological Association Conference. Montreal, May 2010.

Colonialism and Criminalisation: Aboriginal Gangs in Canada,” Common Study Programme in Critical CriminologyNew York City, November 2010.

“Community-level Responses to Safety and Security Concerns in Four Inner-city Winnipeg Neighbourhoods: Understanding Barriers to Collective Efficacy,” National Conference of the Canadian Society of Criminology. Ottawa, 2009.

“Community-based Research from a Student Perspective,” Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) National Conference, Winnipeg, 2009.

“Racism in International Development Studies,” McGill Anti-Racist Coalition Conference. Montreal, February 2008.

“Reflections on Youth organizing in Winnipeg against the 2003 Invasion of Iraq,” Youth Activist Retreat. Winnipeg, August 2008.

“Youth Fight Back: High School Student Organizing for Social Justice,” Manitoba Campus Activist Assembly. Winnipeg, September 2008.

 


COMMUNITY AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, Advisory Committee Member (2013-2015)

Co-organizer of Criminology in Context: Situating the Conference in Local Struggles, Roundtable Session, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, with Albert de la Tierra and Laura Naegler. San Francisco, CA. November 2013.

Co-organizer, workshop presenter, facilitator, website designer at Whose Winnipeg? A Workshop about Neoliberalism, Settler Colonialism, and the Production of Urban Space, with Owen Toews and Kate Sjoberg. Winnipeg, MB. August 2013.

Co-organizer, workshop presenter, facilitator at the 2nd International Copwatching Conference. Winnipeg, MB, Canada. June 2011.

Graduate Center Liaison, Common Study Sessions in Critical Criminology. New York, NY. November 2010.

Youth Dialogue Facilitator at the Youth Peacebuilding Project, Menno Simons College, University of Winnipeg. Winnipeg, MB. April-June 2009.

Equity Commissioner, Students Society of McGill University. 2006-2007.

Organizer and Facilitator, Youth Activist Retreat. Winnipeg, MB. 2003.

 


PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Society of Criminology (Division of Critical Criminology, Abolitionist Scholars Group)
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Critical Ethnic Studies Association
American Studies Association (Critical Prison Studies Group)

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