MSU’s Sutton named ‘Emerging Scholar’ by criminology society
STARKVILLE, Miss.— Mississippi State University faculty member Tara E. Sutton has been recognized as an emerging scholar by the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Queer Criminology for her in-depth criminology research with a focus on women, Black families and LGBTQIA2S+ young adults.
Sutton, an assistant professor in MSU’s Department of Sociology, will receive her award at the ASC annual meeting in early November.
“I am incredibly honored to have been selected for this award,” Sutton said. “As a queer woman myself, it is both professionally and personally meaningful to be recognized at the national level for my academic work on sexual assault among LGBTQIA2S+ people, efforts to mentor queer students, and involvement in LGBTQIA2S+ organizations such as the MSU Safe Zone.”
Sutton said the Division on Queer Criminology (DQC), developed in 2019, is a group of scholars whose research, teaching and community-based work focuses on LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and whose research uses and extends queer theoretical frameworks.
An MSU faculty member since 2018, Sutton—who holds affiliations in MSU’s gender studies program and African American studies program—focuses her research on sexuality, gender and race as it relates to violence and crime.
The ASC is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific and professional knowledge of crime and delinquency and aim to encourage a multidisciplinary exchange of research and teaching practices to foster criminological scholarship, and to serve as a forum for the dissemination of criminological knowledge.
The DQC encourages study and development of queer criminology to enhance and improve teaching strategies and research as well as to connect researchers with policymakers in order to affect positive change for LGBTQIA2S+ communities.
Part of MSU’s College of Arts and Sciences, more information about the Department of Sociology is available at www.sociology.msstate.edu.
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