Nicole Kaufman
Education
- PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- BA, Barnard College, Columbia University
Courses Taught
- Criminal Justice Reform
- Criminology
- Criminal Justice
- Punishment & Society
- Introduction to Sociology
- Contemporary American Society
- Sociology of Prisoner Reentry (graduate seminar)
- Prison narratives (capstone)
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Dr. Kaufman specializes in Political Sociology, Criminology and Penology, Law & Society, and Qualitative Methods. Her research examines institutional arrangements that facilitate and limit social inclusion. She is interested in several social problems: prisoner reentry, women鈥檚 incarceration, faith-based drug and alcohol treatment, and legal mobilization in the courts.
Dr. Kaufman teaches Sociology and Criminology using a humanistic, interactive, and multi-media approach. She designs class assignments to increase students' ability to locate, understand, and analyze data trends so they can assess the strength of arguments. She uses independent research to encourage students to think about social justice applications of sociological processes and ways to use policy to proactively respond to the current and historical social world.
Publications
2023. "," Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.
2021. 鈥溾 (Nicole Kaufman and Megan Welsh). Pp. 397-422 in The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography, edited by Paul Luken and Suzanne Vaughn.
2020. "." Critical Criminology.
2019 鈥淭he State鈥檚 Accomplices? Organizations and The Penal State.鈥 In Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century: Critical Perspectives of Returning Home, edited by Keesha Middlemass and CalvinJohn Smiley.
2018. 鈥.鈥 Punishment & Society.
2018. 鈥溾 In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, edited by H. Pontell. New York: Oxford University Press.
Kaufman, Nicole, Joshua Kaiser and Cesra茅a Rumpf. 2016 (early view). "." Law and Social Inquiry.
2015. 鈥.鈥 Theoretical Criminology 19:534-553
Book Reviews
2017. . By Carla Shedd. American Journal of Sociology 123(3):911-913. DOI: abs/10.1086/694583.
2013. . Punishment & Society 15(3):330-332
Awards
Outstanding Mentor, Cutler Scholars Program, 2026
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- Kaufman for excellent service at UW-Madison.