Clinton Nichols
Rosary College of Arts and Sciences
Clinton Nichols is assistant professor in the Sociology & Criminology Department at Dominican University (River Forest, IL USA). His doctoral research in cultural anthropology (Northwestern University) was an ethnographic investigation of squatters’ efforts to earn incomes and secure housing in post-apartheid Windhoek, Namibia. Dr. Nichols was a Fulbright-IIE recipient, and a HistoryMakers 2021 Innovative Pedagogies Fellow. His teaching and research interests focus on housing insecurity, livelihoods, urban colonial and post-apartheid Namibia, policing, and incarceration. Dr. Nichols has volunteered with Prison & Neighborhoods Arts/Education Project, an initiative that delivers undergraduate courses to incarcerated persons at Stateville Correctional Center located near Joliet, IL. Through a grant from the Illinois Secretary of State and CARLI, Dr. Nichols is authoring a textbook (open educational resource) about criminology and criminal justice in Illinois.
Apartheid and racial segregation
Artistic communities: artists, collectors
Cities: Chicago
Cities: Windhoek, Namibia (colonial and post-independence)
Incarceration: voluntary educational programs
Informality: housing, work
Policing
Notes of a Masked Son (Green Mountains Review, 2021)
On lockdown and locked out of the prison classroom: the prospects of post-secondary education for incarcerated persons during pandemic (Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 2020)
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