Featured Speakers
"Utopic imaginings: The comic superhero's quest to eradicate crime"
Staci Strobl, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Nickie Phillips, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology
St. Francis College
Staci Strobl
Staci Strobl is an assistant professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her areas of specialization are women in policing in the Arabian Gulf, comic book portrayals of crime in the United States and alternative dispute resolution. Dr. Strobl completed her doctorate in Criminal Justice at the City University of New York's Graduate Center with a specialization in Comparative Criminal Justice and Criminology. She received her MA in Criminal Justice at John Jay and her BA in Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. Recently, she was the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Bahrain where she completed an ethnographic study of policewomen. Prior to joining John Jay as a faculty member, she was editor of the CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium's Compendium of Working Papers. Earlier in her career, she has worked as a U.S. Probation Officer and a crime journalist.
Nickie D. Phillips
Nickie D. Phillips is an assistant professor in the Sociology and Criminal Justice Department at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y. She received her Ph.D. from City University of New York Graduate Center and holds an M.A. in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her academic interests include media representations of crime and justice, cultural criminology, and hate crimes. She recently co-authored “Cultural criminology and kryptonite: Constructions of crime and justice in comic books” published in Crime, Media, Culture and “Crime in Prime Time” appearing in the forthcoming book Race, Crime, and the Media.