Brittany P. Battle
Brittany P. Battle
Assistant Professor
She/Her
B.A. University of Delaware, 2009
M.A. Temple University, 2012
Ph.D. Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2019
Dr. Brittany P. Battle is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department and Affiliate Faculty in the African American Studies Program at Wake Forest University. She is also a recent Ford Postdoctoral Fellow and Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellow with the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an ethnographer, her research interests include carceral logics, social and family policy, courts, abolition and social justice, and culture and cognition. She teaches courses on social justice, (re)imagining the criminal legal system and transformative justice, and courts & criminal procedure. In addition, she is a grassroots organizer and Co-Founder/Co-Director of Triad Abolition Project with extensive experience working with organizations and agencies to pursue liberation. Her work has been recognized with the Eastern Sociological Society’s 2022 Public Sociology Award, Sociologists for Women in Society 2021 Feminist Activism Award, and the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice 2020 Praxis Award. Dr. Battle’s scholarship has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Institute for Research on Poverty, Ford Foundation, American Sociological Association, Sociologists for Women in Society, and others. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets, including Gender & Society, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Theory and Review, and Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology.
COURSES TAUGHT
SOC 151: Principles of Sociology
SOC 341: Criminology
SOC 338: Courts and Criminal Procedure in the Era of Mass Incarceration
SOC 344: Social Justice in Theory, Method, and Practice
SOC 390: Defund, Transform, Abolish?: Reimagining Justice