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Assata-Nicole Richards, PhD
The Pennsylvania State University, 2004
Title: Assistant Professor of Sociology
Campus Address: 2611 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-383-9488
E-mail: assata@pitt.edu
Fields
Social movements, criminal Justice, research methods, survey research, organizational theory, life course perspective, quantitative methods and statistics
Teaching
research methods, prisons, race, black nationalism, social movements
Honors/Awards
National Science Foundation Doctorial Dissertation Support Grant
American Society of Criminology Minority Fellowship
Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship
Projects
Diffusion of Prisons, 1974-2000
Cognitive liberation and social movement participation
Black Insurgency, 1960-1990