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NICOLE KAUFMAN
Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin – Madison
1180 Observatory Drive
8128 Sewell Social Science Building
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-4474
[email protected]
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Sociology. Ph.D., expected 2014
Research Interests: Criminology/Penology, Political Sociology, Law & Society
Dissertation: “Making Ex-Prisoners into Citizens: Processes of State and NonState Organizational Intervention.”
Committee Members: Myra Marx Ferree (chair), Pamela Oliver, Chad Goldberg,
Pamela Herd, and Tonya Brito.
Preliminary Exams: Sociology of Law and Society (with distinction), 2007
Political Sociology, 2008
University of Wisconsin-Madison Sociology. M.S., 2006
Barnard College, Columbia University American Studies. B.A., 2003
Grants
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant in Law and Social Science
(2012-2013; $8774, direct costs)
Department of Sociology, UW-Madison ($1700, research and travel awards)
Institute for Research on Poverty, UW-Madison ($2700, research and travel awards)
Graduate School, UW-Madison ($1200, Vilas research and travel grant awards)
Fellowships and Honors
University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus-Wide TA Award Recipient (2013)
Graduate Fellow, Institute for Legal Studies, UW-Madison Law School (2011-2013)
Graduate Research Fellow, Institute for Research on Poverty (2008-2012)
Fellow, Initiative on Nanotechnology and Society (2005-2006; declined, 2006-2007)
Phi Beta Kappa (2003)
Barnard College Tow Fellowship (2002; $5000)
Barnard College Dean’s List (1999-2003)
NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Participant (2001; $2000)
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Prisoner Incorporation into Citizenship: The Work of Non-Governmental
Organizations.” Revise and resubmit.
“Inclusionary or Exclusionary Institutions? Prisoner Reentry Organizations and the
Targeting of Participants in Mission Statements.” Under review.
Other Publications
2013. Book review of Beth Richie’s Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and
America’s Prison Nation. Punishment & Society 15:330-332.
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Publications in Preparation for Submission
“Not by Neo-liberalism Alone: Moral Justifications for the Devolution of Wisconsin’s
Community Corrections.”
“Before the Birth of the Movement: Judges and Environmental Racism Framing in
Courts.”
“Beyond Punishment: Surveillance, Assistance, and Transformation under a
Reconfigured Penal State” (with Cesraea Rumpf, Joshua Kaiser, and
Reuben Jonathan Miller).
Teaching Positions
Instructor
Madison College, Arts and Sciences. Madison, WI.
Contemporary American Society (Fall, 2012, and Spring, 2013)
Introduction to Sociology (Fall, 2013).
UW-Madison, Department of Sociology. Madison, WI.
Criminology (Spring and Summer, 2009).
Teaching Assistant
UW-Madison, Department of Sociology. Madison, WI.
Criminology, 5 sections (Fall, 2010).
Criminal Justice, 5 sections (Spring, 2008 and Spring, 2010).
Contemporary American Society, 5 sections (Fall, 2007 and Fall, 2008).
Research Mentor in the Department of Sociology, UW-Madison. I mentored seven
undergraduate students majoring in sociology and legal studies in for-credit and not-forcredit research on prisoner reentry. I instructed the students in techniques to gather and
code data on local non-profit activities, curricula, funding, and approaches to gender
(Fall, 2010- Summer, 2012).
Research Positions
American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange. Madison, WI. Researcher
on parole revocation issues (Summer, 2013).
Waisman Center, UW-Madison. Experimenter and data processor, Wellbeing and
Asthma Study, Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior. Collected and
processed experimental data (Summer, 2011- ).
National Institute of Justice, Madison, WI. Federal court observer. Collected data on
bankruptcy courtroom use (Fall, 2009).
Center on Wisconsin Strategy. Madison, WI. Project assistant. Researched and wrote
reports on technical college training for green jobs (Summer, 2008).
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison. Project assistant. Conducted
participant observation and document analysis of collaboration between chemistry
labs with Prof. Daniel Kleinman (Fall, 2004-Summer, 2006).
Conservation Law Foundation. Boston, MA. Science and policy intern (Summer, 2003).
Selected Professional Presentations
Conference Presentations
“Beyond Punishment: Surveillance, Assistance, and Transformation under a
Reconfigured Penal State” (with Cesraea Rumpf, Joshua Kaiser, and
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Reuben Jonathan Miller). To be presented at the annual meetings of the Law and
Society Association in the Twin Cities (June, 2014).
“Inclusionary or Exclusionary Institutions? Prisoner Reentry Organizations and the
Targeting of Participants in Mission Statements.” To be presented at the
American Society of Criminology Meeting in Atlanta (November, 2013).
“Bringing Institutions Back In: States, Non-State Organizations and Prisoner
Incorporation into Citizenship.”
 Engendering Change Conference, University of Illinois-Chicago. Chicago,
IL (March, 2013).
 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. Boston, MA (May,
2013).
 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. New York,
NY (August, 2013).
 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. New
York, NY (August, 2013).
“A Reconstruction of the Gender-Same/Gender-Different Distinction in Programming for
Formerly Incarcerated Women.” Midwest Law and Society Retreat, UWMadison. Madison, WI (September, 2012).
“Prisoner Re-Incorporation Regimes and Their Approaches to Gender and Religion.”
Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, CO (August,
2012).
“Observations on the Organizational Field of Women’s Prisoner Reentry.” Law and
Society Association, San Francisco, CA (June, 2011).
“Political Teaching and Learning in Women’s Prisoner Reentry Groups.” Midwest Law
and Society Retreat, Madison, WI (October, 2010).
“Before the Birth of the Movement: Judges and Environmental Racism Framing in
Courts.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA
(August, 2010).
“The Social Movement Context for Legal Challenges against Environmental Racism.”
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco,
CA (August, 2009).
“The Environmental Justice Movement in the Legal Arena.” Midwest Law and Society
Retreat, UW-Madison (September, 2008).
“Presence and Presentation in a Tribal Fieldwork Setting.” National Association of
Native American Studies, Houston, TX (February, 2002).
Invited Talks
“Environment: Racism and Justice.” UW-Madison Department of Sociology, Problems
of American Racial and Ethnic Minorities (October, 2012).
“Prisoner Reentry and Women’s Citizenship.” UW-Madison Department of Sociology,
Gender, Society and Politics (December, 2010).
Synergistic Activities
Reviewer for Punishment & Society (2011- )
Graduate student host to job candidates (2009)
Mentored Barnard College juniors and seniors applying for Tow Fellowship as they
developed research projects in the social sciences (2008-2009)
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Leader of a participatory, interdisciplinary workshop on tools, reflexivity, subjectivity
and translation at the Law & Society brownbag (2008)
Department of Sociology graduate student mentor (2007-2008)
Presenter to natural scientists and engineers on ethnographic methods, Nanoscale Science
and Engineering Center (2004-2006)
Professional Memberships
American Society of Criminology
American Sociological Association
Law and Society Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Sociologists for Women in Society
References
Myra Marx Ferree (advisor), Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology
8128 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393
(608) 263-5204
[email protected]
Pamela Oliver, Professor of Sociology
8128 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393
(608) 262-6829
[email protected]
Howie Erlanger, Professor of Law and Sociology
University of Wisconsin Law School
975 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-7405, (608) 262-2240
[email protected]
Chad Goldberg, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies
8128 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393
(608) 262-2108
[email protected]
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