Clinton Nichols
Rosary College of Arts and Sciences
Director, Criminology
Rosary College of Arts and Sciences
Clinton Nichols is assistant professor in the Sociology & Criminology Department at º£½ÇÉçÇø (River Forest, IL USA). His doctoral research in cultural anthropology (Northwestern University) was an ethnographic investigation of squatters’ efforts to earn incomes and secure housing in post-apartheid Windhoek, Namibia. Dr. Nichols was a Fulbright-IIE recipient, and a HistoryMakers 2021 Innovative Pedagogies Fellow. His teaching and research interests focus on housing insecurity, livelihoods, urban colonial and post-apartheid Namibia, policing, and incarceration. Dr. Nichols has volunteered with Prison & Neighborhoods Arts/Education Project, an initiative that delivers undergraduate courses to incarcerated persons at Stateville Correctional Center located near Joliet, IL. Through a grant from the Illinois Secretary of State and CARLI, Dr. Nichols is authoring a textbook (open educational resource) about criminology and criminal justice in Illinois.
Apartheid and racial segregation
Artistic communities: artists, collectors
Cities: Chicago
Cities: Windhoek, Namibia (colonial and post-independence)
Incarceration: voluntary educational programs
Informality: housing, work
Policing
Notes of a Masked Son (Green Mountains Review, 2021)
On lockdown and locked out of the prison classroom: the prospects of post-secondary education for incarcerated persons during pandemic (Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 2020)
Dominican faculty and staff, .