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Curriculum Vitae
Lacy Mitchell
129 Kent St. Albany, NY 12206 713-927-1788 [email protected] EducationState University of New York at Albany PhD Sociology
Advanced to candidacy – Completed 5th year
University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas B.S. Sociology Magna Cum Laude
Graduated: 12/21/2008
San Jacinto Community College, Houston, Texas Major: Sociology
2004 - 2006
Employment
July – Present 2014: General Research Intern, Office of Justice Research and Performance, The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, Albany, New York
October – December 2013: Intern for the Research Department of the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide in Kigali, Rwanda
May 2012 – Present: Blog Designer, Manager, and Contributor for the American Journal of Cultural Sociology
August – December 2007: Supplemental Instructor (TA) for Hist 1305 - U.S. History to 1877, Dr. Austin Allen
University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas
July 2001 – July 2004: Head of Data Processing, Client Relations Administrator, Software Consultant
ARI Environmental, Inc., Houston, Texas July 2000 – July 2001: Database Administrator
Environmental Analytics, Inc., Houston, Texas
May 1998 – August 1999: Database Migration Administrator, Software Consultant Southern Wood Flooring and Supply, Dallas, Texas
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Software Experience
Microsoft Office Suite proficient (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook, and Access) Proficient Typist
Visual Basic SQL
FoxPro and Visual FoxPro Stata
SPSS
Areas of Specialization
Criminology, Sociology of Law, Deviance and Social Control, Violence and Aggression, Comparative Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Sociology of War, International Political Economy, Theory
Publications
Savelsberg, Joachim, Ryan D. King, Rajiv Evan Rajan, and Lacy Mitchell. 2011 “Constructing and Remembering the My Lai Massacre.” In American Memories: Atrocities and the Law. New York: Russell Sage.
Winner of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Theory Section Outstanding Book Award
Messner, Steve, Mark Beaulieu, Stacey Bederka, and Lacy Mitchell. 2013. “Revisiting the Quality and Use of Race-Specific Homicide Data: Exploring Substantive Implications.” Homicide Studies. 17(1): 1-24.
Responsibilities Downloading, organizing, merging, and calculating new variables in a combined database including Census 1990 and 2000 and Supplemental Homicide Report 1990 and 2000 data for U.S. cities over 150,000 total population and over 5,000 total African American population.
Lachmann, Richard and Lacy Mitchell. 2014. “The Changing Face of War in Textbooks: Depictions of World War II and Vietnam, 1970–2009.” Sociology of Education, 87(3): 188-203.
Responsibilities Finding, gathering, scanning, and coding, for their discussion of war casualties in WWII and Vietnam, high school U.S. history textbooks from around the country from the years 1968 – 2009. Also, scanning relevant pages, submitting these pages to optical character recognition (OCR) processing, and data analysis using Wordstat software.
Working Papers
Lachmann, Richard and Lacy Mitchell. No Title As Yet.
Responsibilities Finding and retrieving scanned Overseas Weekly newspaper articles
published during the Vietnam War (there are about 3200 full spread pages) and newspapers published by anti-war or peace organizations during this time period. Submitting these pages to optical character recognition (OCR) processing, and data analysis using Wordstat software.
3 Major, Aaron and Lacy Mitchell. “The Global Structures of American Defense Spending,
1980-2009: Political and economic implications.” Not yet submitted for publication.
Responsibilities Downloading, organizing, merging, and calculating new variables in a combined database using U.S. Department of Defense procurement data from the Statistical Analysis and Information Division, 1978 – 2006, and the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation, 1978 – 2009. Detailed, historical, case-study analysis of the Kingdom of Tonga tracing the effects of U.S. military procurement spending in that nation. Case-study and data section write up and PowerPoint presentation creation and conference presentation.
Mitchell, Lacy The Birth and Diffusion of the Transitional Justice Paradigm: How Organizations have Run Away
Mitchell, Lacy Institutional Peace? A Systematic Evaluation of Violence Reduction as a result of Transitional Justice
Mitchell, Lacy Official or Unofficial Crime? An Analysis of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Program and Transitional Justice Program Effectiveness in Reducing Armed Conflict and Producing Violent Crime
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
2014: presented the Allen E. Liska Dissertation Award by the UAlbany Sociology Department 2013 – present: Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale
2007 – 2008: Academic Excellence in Sociology, University of Houston-Downtown 2006 – 2007: Academic Achievement in Sociology, University of Houston-Downtown 2005 – 2006: Dean’s List, San Jacinto Community College
Organizational Affiliations, Service, and Clubs
2012 – present: American Journal of Cultural Sociology (Palgrave-Macmillan) Blog Designer, editor, and contributor. http://www.ajcs-blog.com/
2010 – 2011: President of the Students of Sociology (SOS) graduate student organization Spring 2006 – Present: Student Member of the American Sociological Association Fall 2007: Vice President of the Sociology Club, University of Houston-Downtown August 2007 – 2009: Member of Tau Sigma Honor Society
4 2004 – 2005: Managing Editor of the San Jacinto Creative Writing Journal: Threshold, San
Jacinto Community College
2004 – 2005: Web Manager of the Honors Society, San Jacinto Community College 2004 – 2005: President of the WEBB Society (Historical Club), San Jacinto Community
College
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Sociology: Introductory survey course focusing on the relationship between the individual and the micro, meso and macro-levels of social structure with emphasis on current sociological data and knowledge.
Sociological Theory: A broad survey of classical and contemporary theory focusing on major themes, broad sociological debates, the structure of the discipline and modern and postmodern thought, and application to micro and macro experiences of students.
Sociology of the Holocaust - online: A junior level, history and theory intensive course covering the main explanations of the Holocaust with emphasis on debates about authority, modernity, reactionary ideologies, economic inequality, and the politics of collective identity formation. Ends with an application to more recent genocidal crises and hate-crime.
Community Involvement and Other Extra Curricular Activities
2010 – 2011: As SOS President—Planned two guest speaker engagements. Invitees included the Sociology and multiple other departments. Planned and held 5 brown bag lunches on various educational topics for the Sociology department. Planned and held various social engagements for the Sociology department.
April 2008: Participated in University of Houston-Downtown’s annual Bayou Clean Up day on behalf of the Sociology Club
July 2007: Nominated for and attended Social Entrepreneurship and Global Change Summit sponsored by the Americans for Informed Democracy organization
Spring 2004 – Fall 2007: Volunteer to help with free-lance programming in the environmental industries, sponsored by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
Fall 2005 – Spring 2007: Assist Professor Sandra Elliot, M.A. in grading English composition papers for Rice University, Houston, Texas
Fall 2005 – Spring 2006: Assist Dr. Greg Smith in grading English composition papers for San Jacinto Community College
August – September 2005: Volunteered with Red Cross, FEMA, news organizations, etc., to compile and publish the first missing persons database during hurricane Katrina
5 August – September 2005: Coordinated volunteer effort between Greenpeace information
technology associates, organizations donating equipment, FEMA, and local law
enforcement agencies to establish initial lines of communication in the New Orleans area immediately after hurricane Katrina
Spring 2004: Ran WEBB society sponsored voter registration drive at San Jacinto Community College
Spring 2004: Ran fund raiser sponsored by the WEBB society to aid Goliad, Texas Historical Library collection
Academic References
Please feel free to contact any of my references, specifically my prior collaborators in research on criminal justice related topics with heavy data collection and analysis (Drs. Messner and King).
Dissertation Co-Advisor: Richard Lachmann
SUNY Albany, Sociology
Dissertation Co-Advisor: Ronald Jacobs
SUNY Albany, Sociology
Previous Faculty Collaborator Steven Messner
SUNY Albany, Sociology
Previous Faculty Collaborator Ryan King
Ohio State University, Sociology
