Faculty & Staff
Michelle Inderbitzin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-3703
Phone: 541-737-8921
Fax: 541-737-5372
E-mail: mli@oregonstate.edu
Areas of Interest:
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Criminology
- Deviant Behavior and Social Control
- Sociology of Education
Current Projects:
- "Balancing Custody and Treatment in a Juvenile Correctional Facility."
- "The American Dream Derailed: Institutional Attempts to Level the Aspirations of Incarcerated Youth."
- "From Yell leaders to Cheerleaders: Masculinity and the Transformation of American Cheerleading." With Kathleen Stanley and Dwaine Plaza.
- "Public Criminologies." with Christopher Uggen.
- "Re-entry of Emerging Adults: Adolescent Inmates' Transition Back into the Community."
- Public Criminology
Brief Vita
Education:
- Ph.D. - Sociology, University of Washington 2000
- M.A. - Sociology, University of Washington 1996
- B.A. - Sociology, University of Washington 1991
- B.A. - Communications, University of Washington 1991
Recent Publications:
- Inderbitzin, Michelle, Kelly Fawcett, Christopher Uggen, and Kristin A. Bates. "From Civil War to Civil Rights: A History of Voter Disenfranchisement in the South." In Kristin A. Bates and Richelle S. Swan (eds.), Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press: (forthcoming).
- Inderbitzin, Michelle. 2007. "Inside a Maximum-Security Juvenile Training School: Institutional Attempts to Redefine the American Dream and Normalize Incarcerated Youth." Punishment & Society, 9(3): (forthcoming).
- Inderbitzin, Michelle, and Debbie A. Storrs. 2007. "Mediating the Conflict Between Transformative Pedagogy and Bureaucratic Practice." College Teaching (forthcoming).
- Inderbitzin, Michelle. 2007. "A Look from the Inside: Balancing Custody and Treatment in a Juvenile Maximum Security Facility." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. (forthcoming).
- Inderbitzin, Michelle. 2007. "The Impact of Gender on Juvenile Justice Decisions." In R. Muraskin (Ed.), Its a Crime: Women and Justice, Fourth Edition. pp. 782-791. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
- Inderbitzin, Michelle. 2006. "Guardians of the State's Problem Children: An Ethnographic Study of Staff Members in a Juvenile Correctional Facility." The Prison Journal, 86(4): 431-451.
- Inderbitzin, Michelle. 2006. "Lessons from a Juvenile Training School." Journal of Adolescent Research, 21(1): 7-26.
- Inderbitzin, Michelle. 2006. "Negotiating Cooperation and Control: Inmate Leadership in a Juvenile Training School." Corrections Compendium: 31(2): 6-7, 33-34.
- Storrs, Debbie A., and Michelle Inderbitzin. 2006. "Imagining a Liberal Education: Critically Examining the Learning Process Through Simulation." Journal of Transformative Education 4(2): 175-189.
- Inderbitzin, Michelle. 2005. "Growing Up Behind Bars: An Ethnograpic Study of Adolescent Inmates in a Cottage for Violent Offenders." Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 42(3): 1-22.
- Inderbitzin, Michelle. 2003. "Outsiders and Justice Consciousness." Contemporary Justice Review, 6(4): 357-362.
Recent Grants:
- L.L. Stewart Faculty Development Award, ($1895) Inside-Out Training Institute, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005
- Undergraduate Research Innovation Scholarship Creativity Grant, with Kelly Fawcett, 2006
- Undergraduate Research Innovation Scholarship Creativity Grant, with Jennifer Johnson, 2004
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Program Workshop "Quantitative Analysis of Criminal Justice Data", June 2003 (Competitive Admission and $2500 Stipend)
- College of Liberal Arts Research Grant, June 2002
Honors & Awards:
- 2005 Who's Who Among America's Teachers
- 2005 Sociology Student Choice Award: Outstanding Mentor, Oregon State University
- 2003 Sociology Student Choice Award: Outstanding Professor, Oregon State University
