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Academic Positions
2023 – present Assistant Professor Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University
2020 – 2023 Associate Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University, Pueblo* (*early tenure and promotion conferred)
2015 – 2020 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University, Pueblo
Education
Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2015
Dissertation Title: “Helping Women Help Themselves”: An Ethnography of Carceral Empowerment and the Neoliberal Rehabilitative Ideal at a Recovery Center for Criminalized Women
B.A., Social Sciences and International Studies, Clark University, 2008
Areas of Specialization and Teaching Interests
- Critical Criminologies
- Critical Prison Studies
- Race, Gender, and Transformative Justice
- Qualitative Research/Ethnography
- Reentry and Just Transitions
- Health Disparities in Legal Systems
Refereed Publications
Hackett, Colleen. Forthcoming. “‘I Was Treated Differently’: Reproductive Healthcare Experiences among Women with Recent Experiences of Incarceration, Homelessness, and/or Substance Use in a Medically Underserved Area in the Southwestern U.S.” Community Health Equity Research & Policy.
Hackett, Colleen, Frank, Leslie, Heldt-Werle, Lindsey, and Loosier, Penny S. 2024. “Provider-Reported Barriers in Sexual Health Care Services for Women with Upsteam Barriers: The Case of Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis in Southern Colorado, 2022.” Sexually Transmitted Diseases: 51(5): 337-341.
Hackett, Colleen and Benjamin Turk.* 2021. “’Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win’: U.S. Prisoners Collectively Resisting Against Systems of Death.” Routledge International Handbook on Penal Abolitionism, edited by Michael J. Coyle and David Scott. [*equal coauthorship]
Hackett, Colleen and Ben Turk.* 2018. “Shifting Carceral Landscapes: Decarceration and the Reconfiguration of White Supremacy.” Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics. [*equal coauthorship]
Hackett, Colleen and Ben Turk*. 2018. “‘Freedom First’: Pursuing Abolition through Supporting Prisoner Resistance. Contemporary Anarchist Criminology: Against Authoritarianism and Punishment, edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis, and Jeffrey Shantz. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. [*equal coauthorship]
Whalley, Elizabeth and Colleen Hackett*. 2017. “Carceral Feminisms: The Abolitionist Project and Undoing Dominating Feminisms.” Contemporary Justice Review. [*equal coauthorship]
Perry, Tara and Colleen Hackett*. 2016. “Justice in Gender-Responsiveness?” Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 25(1): 19-38. [*equal coauthorship]
Hackett, Colleen. 2015. “Justice through Defiance.” Contemporary Justice Review. 18(1): 68-75.
Hackett, Colleen. 2013. “Transformative Visions: Governing through Alternative Practices and Therapeutic Interventions at a Women’s Reentry Center.” Feminist Criminology. 8(3): 221-242.
- 2013 Honorable Mention, Division on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency, Society for the Study of Social Problems
(Selected) Refereed Conference Presentations
2024. Hackett, Colleen. Forthcoming. “‘Sounds Like Something my Great-Grandma Dealt With’: Syphilis, Reproductive Health, and Colonial Carcerality.” To be presented at the Mortality, Health, and Justice Involvement panel at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2023. Hackett, Colleen. “Embodied Carcerality: The Medical Neglect of Syphilis among Criminalized Women.” Presented at the American Studies Association (ASA) annual meeting, Montreal, Quebec.
2021. Hackett, Colleen and Beth Whalley. “Harm Reduction within an Anti-Carceral Praxis: A Theoretical Case for a Spectrum of Collectivized Strategies.” Presented at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
2019. Hackett, Colleen. “’Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win’: U.S. Prisoners Collectively Resisting against Systems of Death.” Presented at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2018. Hackett, Colleen. “The Fire Inside: Prison Rebels and Incarcerated Intellectualism.” Presented at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.
2018. Hackett, Colleen and Elliotte Krier. “Collective Movements and Prison Rebellions: Uplifting Femme and Trans Prisoner Resistance.” Presented at the International Conference on Penal Abolition annual meeting, London, UK.
2016. Hackett, Colleen and Ben Turk. “The Carceral Afterlife of Slavery.” Presented at American Society of Criminology (ASC) annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.
2016. Hackett, Colleen. “Resolving the Tensions between Popular Education and the Psychologization of Oppression at a Women’s Prison.” Presented at the International Conference on Penal Abolition annual meeting, Quito, Ecuador.
2015. Hackett, Colleen. “Carceral Therapeutics and the Shadow State: Troubling the Role of Psychiatry in Alternatives to Incarceration.” Presented at the Penal Abolition session at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) annual meeting, Washington, DC.
2014. Hackett, Colleen. “Teaching Abolition: Imagining a World Without Prisons as a Means of Resisting the Carceral State.” Presented at the Teaching about Prison Abolition session at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) annual meeting, San Francisco, CA. 2014.
2013. Hackett, Colleen. “The Use of Focus Groups Among Criminalized Women.” Presented at the Rethinking Distinctions between Crime, Delinquency, and Deviance session at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) annual meeting, New York City, NY.
(Selected) Non-Refereed Conference Presentations
2014. Hackett, Colleen and Ben Turk. “Mass Incarceration, Carceral Systems, and Transformative Justice: Public Pedagogy through Theatre.” Presented at the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference annual meeting, Omaha, NE.
2014. Hackett, Colleen. “Popular Education in Prison: Alternative Empowerment Models in Practice.” Presented at the International Conference on Penal Abolition annual meeting, Ottawa, Canada.
2014. Hackett, Colleen and Ben Turk. “An End to the War on Drugs?: Shifting Carceral Landscapes and Practical Strategies in a ‘Smart on Crime’ Era.” The International Conference on Penal Abolition annual meeting, Ottawa, Canada.
(Selected) Honors, Awards, and Grants
2024 Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (NAU), Research Capacity Core ($2,000)
2022 Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment research funding ($24,000)
2022 Aztlán Center Course Development Grant: A Sociology Pueblo ($2,000)
2021 College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Outstanding Faculty award, CSU-P
2017 Inside-Out Prisoner Exchange Program training funding, CSU-P ($3,100)
2015-19 Library CoSponsorship Award, CSU-Pueblo Library event funding, CSU-P ($1200)
2016-19 College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Faculty Development award, CSU-P ($3000)
2016-19 Provost’s Faculty Development Award, CSU-P ($3100)
2016 Summer Undergraduate Research Project grant, CSU-P ($1500 total for 2 students)
2014 Ralph and Barbara Dakin Award, Department of Sociology, CU Boulder ($1,000)
Courses Taught
Northern Arizona University Corrections and Social Control // Investigating Difference // Research Methods for Criminology (graduate course) // Gender and Justice
Colorado State University Pueblo Penology // Crime, Drugs, and Social Policy // Social and Cultural Theory // Social Perspectives on Addiction // Race, Crime, and Justice // Sociology of Pueblo: A People’s History
University of Colorado Boulder Drugs in U.S. Society* Juvenile Delinquency* U.S. Race and Ethnic Relations* Crime & Society Deviance in U.S. Society (*instructor of record)
Professional Development
2024. Southwestern Health Equity Research Collaborative (NAU), Community Engagement Core (research design)
2024. Center for Health Equity Research (NAU), Technical Assistance Group (research design)
2024. Community Based Participatory Research Institute for Health: Indigenous and Critical Methodologies, UNM Albuquerque.
2022 Aztlán Center Summer Institute: Southwest History: Preserving Chicanx, Latinx and Indigenous People’s Stories
2022 InSights & InPerson: How-To Research with History Colorado
2020 Creating and Teaching an Online/Hybrid Course, CSU-P (stipend $200)
2019 Education in Prisons conference, Colorado College (honorarium)
2019 Spanish Workshop for Educators, CSU-P
2017 Inside-Out Prisoner Exchange Program training, Temple University
Professional Organizations
American Sociological Association
–Section of Crime, Law, and Deviance
American Society of Criminology
–Division on Critical Criminology
–Division on Women and Crime
Society for the Study of Social Problems
–Division on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Colleen Hackett, Ph.D. 