Featured Speakers
"Clothes, Crime, and Justice in American Culture"
Frankie Y. Bailey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Criminal Justice
University at Albany
Frankie Y. Bailey is an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany. She does research on crime and American culture, focusing on crime history, and crime and mass media/popular culture. She has authored or co-authored books on detective fiction, African American responses to issues of crime and justice, and images of women, sexuality, and murder. She is the co-series editor (with Steven Chermak) of Praeger’s Crime, Media, and Popular Culture series. Her most recent books are African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study (2008), and Wicked Albany (2009, co-authored with Alice P. Green), a local history of Albany, New York during Prohibition. Currently, she is conducting research on urban street lit and on crime, clothing, and impression management. She is also the author of a mystery series featuring crime historian Lizzie Stuart.