Assistant professor of criminal justice, law and society Aimee Wodda is the 2024-2025 recipient of the Western Society of Criminology's Richard Tewksbury Award, recognizing her work in the bourgeoning field of queer criminology.
Aimee Wodda, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Law and Society
503-352-3125
UC Box
A165
Marsh 231
Areas I Teach
Course Information
At Pacific University, all faculty teach a variety of different courses. Typically, we do not use graduate teaching assistants, which means that your classes will be taught by professors and that you will have plenty of opportunities to get to know the faculty in your discipline. Below I have listed some of the courses that I teach. We are always developing and trying out new classes, so the list may change now and then. You can find descriptions of the courses listed below on the website.
Classes I Teach
CJLS 101 Introduction to Law & Society
CJLS 300 Criminal Justice System
CJLS 310 Green Criminology
CJLS 355 NT: Technology & the Law
CJLS 355 NT: Technology & the Law
CJLS 380 Practicum
CJLS 491 Senior Capstone I
CJLS 492 Senior Capstone II
CJLS 492 Senior Capstone II
Education
PhD in Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago (2018).
Master of Arts in English Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago (2009).
Bachelor of Arts in English, University of Illinois at Chicago (2006).
Areas of Research
Gender, Sexuality, and the Law
Institutional Harm
Juvenile (In)justice
Queer Criminology
Sex-Positive Criminology
Select Publications
Wodda, A. & Panfil, V. (Forthcoming, Summer 2020). Sex-positive criminology. Routledge New Directions in Critical Criminology Series
Wodda, A. & Bhat, M. (Forthcoming, Spring 2020). Selling sex in global context. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Wodda, A. and Panfil, V.R. (2018). Insert sexy title here: Moving toward a sex-positive criminology. Feminist Criminology, 13(5), 583-608.
Wodda, A. (2018). Stranger Danger! Journal of Family Strengths: Defining and Debunking Myths and Misconceptions (Special Issue), 18(1), 1-33.
Panfil, V.R. & Wodda, A. (2016). Sexuality and the criminal justice system in the Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Nancy Naples (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell.
Walker, A., Sexton, L., Valcore, J., Sumner, J., Wodda, A. (2018). Transitioning to social justice: Transgender and non-binary individuals in the criminal justice system. In the
Handbook on Social Justice in Criminal Justice. (Cliff Roberson, Ed.). Routledge.
Handbook on Social Justice in Criminal Justice. (Cliff Roberson, Ed.). Routledge.
Kelly, B.L. & Wodda, A. (2016). Revision: Composing an aesthetics of performance pedagogy. Groupwork, 26(2), 33-50.
Select Presentations
Queer possibilities for institutional ethnography? (2019). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA.
The body politics of heteronormative public spaces. (2018). Paper presented at the Queering Social Justice Symposium, Portland, OR.
Appetite and control: Thick desire, crimino-legal settings, and sex-positive criminological theory. (2016). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of teh American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, LA.
Insert sexy title here: Moving away from a sex-negative criminology. (2015). Panel Chaired at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, D.C.
Methodological and ethical issues in Queer Criminology research. (2015). Panel Chaired at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, D.C.
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