Dr. John A. Arthur: Curriculum Vitae Office Address Home Address Department of Sociology/Anthropology 2010 E. 4 th Street 228 Cina Hall, University of Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota 55812 1123 University Drive Duluth, Minnesota 55812-3006 218-726-6358; e-mail: jarthur@d.umn.edu Date of Birth: March 24, 1958 Citizenship: United States Educational Background Ph.D. Sociology Pennsylvania State University, 1988. Double Specialization in Criminology and Demography M. A. Sociology University of New Brunswick, 1982. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Canada B. A. Law and Sociology University of Science and Technology, Ghana. Double Honors, Second Class Upper Division, Top 3 of Graduating Class Present and Previous Status Director, University of Minnesota Study Abroad Program in England: 2005 to 2006 Head, Department of Sociology/Anthropology: Summer 2002 to 2005 Fellow, University of Minnesota Provost s Academic Leadership Initiative Professor of Criminology and Sociology, Center for Crime and Justice Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Duluth Graduate Faculty Member, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Associate Professor of Sociology and Coordinator, Criminal Justice Program, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia Adjunct Faculty, Department of Sociology, Paine College, Augusta, Georgia (Historically Black College and University: HBCU) 1
Areas of Teaching Competence Courses Regularly Taught at the University of Minnesota: Fall 1993-Present Social Stratification International Migration and Economic Development Freshman Seminar: America s Newest Immigrants Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Diaspora Introduction to Criminology Minorities, Crime and Justice in the United States Victimology: Crime Victims Comparative Systems of Punishment and Corrections (Comparative Penology) Race and Ethnic Relations Advanced Theoretical Criminology Law and Society Sociology of Gangs Social Demography, Population, and Development/Seminar: Demographic Techniques Criminological Theory Courses Previously Taught at Augusta State University, Georgia: Fall 1986-1993 Social Inequality Social Demography Social Change in Africa Introduction to Criminal Justice Juvenile Delinquency and Justice Social Problems International Population and Development Race and Ethnic Relations Sociological Theory Black Africans in America Modern Sociological Theory Classical Sociological Theory Comparative Systems of Crime and Punishment Caribbean Immigrants in North America Comparative Criminal Justice Systems Courses Taught as Adjunct at Paine College: Historically Black College in Georgia: 1986-1993 World Systems and Inequality Urban Sociology Statistical Methods for Social Scientists Deviant Behavior Classical Sociological Theory Post-Colonial Africa: Change and Conflict Black Social Thought and Philosophy Modern Sociological Theory Research Methods and Statistics Introduction to African Studies African-Americans in the 20 th Century 2
Research Interests Criminology; International Criminology/Criminal Justice Systems; Minorities, Crime, and Justice in the United States; Africans and African Americans in the Diaspora; African Studies; Race and Ethnic Relations; Inequality; Social Demography, Population Studies. Awards and Honors Recipient of the 1997 College-Wide Research Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Duluth. Recipient of the 1997 Malcolm X Award, University of Minnesota, Duluth. Recipient of the 1992 Louis K. Bell College-Wide Research Award, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia. Recipient of the 1990 College-Wide Faculty Scholar, Excellence in Teaching, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia. Grants National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant (2001): Co-Investigator. Home Binds: Naturalization Among Somalis in Minnesota ($186,000 for three years). President s Faculty Multi-cultural Research Award Multiple Recipient College of Liberal Arts Research Grant--Multiple Recipient Office of International Travel Research, University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Chancellor's Research Grant--Multiple Recipient Augusta State University Faculty Research Grants Grant-in-Aid of Research, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Minnesota Research Publications 2006 Ghanaians in North America: Transnational Interlocking Identities and Immigrant Journeys. Under Review by Ashgate Publishing Co., United Kingdom (forthcoming). 2006 The New Africans in North America (edited): With Baffour Takyi and Kwadjo K. Agyemang. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD (forthcoming). 2000 Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States. Praeger/Greenwood Press, Connecticut. 3
1998 Proximate Correlates of Black Support for Capital Punishment. Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume XXI, No. 1: 159--172. 1998 Racial Attitudes and Opinions About Capital Punishment: Preliminary Findings. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Volume 22, No. 1: 131--144. 1997 "Socioeconomic Influences on Crime in East Africa." International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Volume 21, No. 1: 51--78. 1996 "Social Contexts of Delinquency and the Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders in Ghana, West Africa." Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Volume 24, Nos. 1 & 2: 23--37. 1996 "Crime and Punishment in the Socialist African Republic of Tanzania." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Volume 40 (2): 157--173. 1996 "The Role of British Colonization in the Development of Penal Philosophy in Former British West Africa." In Obi Ebbe, Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems (Page 67-81): Butterworth-Heinemann: Boston. 1995 "Explaining Crime in the Developing Countries: The Need for a Case Study Approach." Crime, Law and Social Change: An International Journal, Volume 23: 191--214. With Dr. Otwin Marenin, Program in Criminal Justice, Washington State University: Pullman. 1995 "Political Development of the Police in Ghana, West Africa." With Dr. Otwin Marenin. In Fields, C. B. and Moore, R. H. Jr. Comparative Criminal Justice: Traditional and Non-Traditional Systems of Law and Control. (Page 163--180): Waveland Press, Prospects Height: Illinois. 1994 "Correctional Ideology of Black Correctional Officers in Georgia." Federal Probation, Volume 58, 1: 57--66. 1994 "Longitudinal Trends in Violence in the Rural American South." International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Volume 18 (Nos. 1 and 2): 129--140. 1994 "Gun Ownership Among American Women Living in One Adult Households." International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Volume 18 (Nos. 1 and 2): 249--263. 1994 "Race, Class and Public Support for Police Use of Force." With Dr. Charles E. 4
Case. Crime, Law and Social Change: An International Journal, Volume 21: 167-- 184. 1994 "Criminological and Criminal Justice Research in Africa: Problems and Prospects." International Review of Modern Sociology, Volume 24, 1:75--94. 1993 "Assessing the Effects of Race on Public Attitudes Toward the Courts." Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, Volume 21: 127--134. 1993 "Anomia, Criminal Victimization and Public Support for Gun Control Legislation." Human Mosaic, Volume 27: 50--60. 1993 "Interpersonal Violence, Criminal Victimization, and Support for Police Use of Force." International Review of Modern Sociology, Volume 23: 91--106. 1992 "Family Disruption, Violent Victimizations and Protest Masculinity." With Roy L. Austin. International Review of Victimology, Volume 2: 103--125. 1992 "Social Changes and Crime Rates in Puerto Rico." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Volume 36: 103--120. 1992 "Fear of Crime, Victimization and Handgun Ownership Among Blacks: Evidence From National Survey Data." American Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume XVI: 121--141. 1991 "Socioeconomic Predictors of Crime in Rural Georgia." Criminal Justice Review, Volume 16: 29--41. 1991 "Development and Crime in Africa: A Test of Modernization Theory." Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 19: 499--513. 1991 "Unemployment, Poverty, and Arrest Rates in the Black Belt of Rural Georgia." American Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 15: 153--173. 1991 "Development of Penal Policy in Former British West Africa: Exploring the Colonial Dimension." International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Volume 15: 1--20. 1991 "International Labor Migration in West Africa: Causes, Evaluation and Policy Implications." African Studies Review, Volume 34: 65--87. 1991 "Inter-Regional Migration of Labor in Ghana, West Africa: Causes, Consequences and Policy Intervention." Review of Black Political Economy, Volume 20: 89--103. 1990 "Rural, Urban and Suburban Crime Differentials in Georgia." Georgia Social Science Journal, Volume 21: 89--103. 5
1989 "Colonial Influence and Political Development in an African Country." Criminal Justice International, Volume 5: 9--16. Manuscripts in Progress: Drafts Available Crime and Nation Building in Post-Colonial British West Africa and the Caribbean. Native-Born Blacks and Foreign-Born Black African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States: Enduring Legacies. Citizenship and Naturalization Among Somali Immigrants in Minnesota, National Science Foundation Grant Study, With Dr. Elizabeth Boyle, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul. Crime and Immigration in Minnesota: Reconceptualizing Minority Criminality Somali and Ethiopian Youth Survey: Unraveling Delinquency in Ethnic Minority Immigrant Communities in Sample of Professional Presentations Foreign-born and Native-born Blacks. Constructing Notions of Race, Identity, and Place. Sociologists of Minnesota Annual Conference, 2003. Crime, Justice, and Immigration of African Diasporic Populations to Presented at the Sociologist of Minnesota Annual Conference. Bloomington, Minnesota 2001. Black African Immigrants in the United States. Presented to the National Association of African American Studies. Houston, TX, February 9-13: 1999. Issues of Race and Racism Affecting Refugee Communities in University of Minnesota Community Roundtable (Refugees Studies Center). November 18, 1998. From the Horn Region of Africa to the American Mid-West: A Study of African Immigrants and Refugees in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Presented to Minnesota Planning (State Demographic Center: Minneapolis-St. Paul), June 18, 1998. Black African Immigrants in the United States: Continuity of the African Diaspora in America. Presented at the 6th African Diaspora Conference. Ca. State Univ., Sacramento: May, 1997. "The How, What, Where and Why of Data on Legal Immigrants: A Question and Answer Session with the Experts." Session Moderator: Association of Public Data Users Meeting, Washington D. C. October, 1996. "Cultural Images and Representations of African-American Women in the Media." Presented at 6
the Organization for the Study of Communication and Gender, Monterey, California, October, 1996. "Crime and Punishment: International Perspectives." Chair of Session and Presenter, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Meeting, Las Vegas, 1996. Organizer of Three Sessions on "Development," American Sociological Association Meeting in Miami, 1993. "Development of Correctional Philosophy in Africa." Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Meeting, Kansas City, 1993. "Fear of Crime, Victimizations and Handgun Ownership Among Blacks." Georgia Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 1992: Jekyll Island. "Crime Trends in Georgia: 1962-85." Presented to Faculty and Staff, Augusta State University, 1992. "Crime and Underdevelopment in Africa." Ninth National Third World Conference in Omaha, 1989. "Economic Development and Crime in Rural Georgia." Georgia Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Warner Robins, 1987. Selected Services: University, College, and Department 2002 Chair, Criminology and Statistics Search Committee, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Minnesota 2002 Continuous Member: African American Students Advisory Board, University of Minnesota 2001 Member, Search Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Minnesota 2000 Member, Search Committee, Director of International Education. University of 1999 Member, Search Committee, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of 1999 Member, Search Committee, Department of Political Science, University of 1998 Chair and Faculty Liaison, McNair Scholarships Committee. 1998 Member, Dean s Search Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of 1997 College of Liberal Arts Assembly Committee, University of 7
1995-97 College of Liberal Arts Representative, Campus Planning Committee, University of 1995 Member, Masters in Social Work Internal Review Team for Re-Accreditation, University of 1995 Chair, Associate Dean Search Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of 1994 Department Representative: College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee, University of 1994 Member, Dean Search Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of 1994 Member, Anthropology Search Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Member, African-American Student Services Advisory Board, University of 1991-93 Faculty Research and Development Committee, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia. Member, Dean's Search Committee, School of Arts and Sciences, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia. International Affairs Committee, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia. Governor's Committee on Criminal Justice, State of Georgia. Regent's Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Augusta State University Representative. 1990-93 Faculty Advisor, Minority Students Advisement Program, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia. Cullum Committee Member, Augusta State University, Georgia. Augusta State University Representative on the Academic Committee on Criminal Justice of the University System of Georgia. Augusta State University Representative on the Governor's Coordinating Council on Criminal Justice. Chair, College-Wide Task Force on Smoking, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia. Member, Child Advocacy Group of Augusta, Georgia. Citizen Judicial Advisory Panel, Columbia County, Georgia. 8
Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Search Committee, Augusta State University. 1989 Consolidation Advisory Panel, Appointed by Mayor of City of Augusta, Georgia to Plan Merger of County and City Government Services. Member, Faculty Mentor Program, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia. Consultant, Black Police Officers Association, Augusta, Georgia. 9