Georgia Southern Welcomes Sociologist Alice Goffman in Final Race, Crime, Community Lecture

March 26, 2015

[caption id="attachment_4519" align="alignright" width="346"] Alice Goffman, Ph.D.[/caption] The Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern is pleased to welcome Alice Goffman, Ph.D., to campus Thursday, April 2 at 6:30 p.m. for the final lecture in the “Race, Crime and Community” lecture series in the Russell Union Theater. During her lecture, titled “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City,” the professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will discuss her research on police surveillance, the war on drugs and the experiences of people living in an inner-city neighborhood in Philadelphia. “We are very excited to welcome Dr. Goffman to Georgia Southern, and are very much looking forward to culminating this lecture series with her as our keynote speaker as she addresses police-community relations in Philadelphia,” said Chad Posick, Ph.D., professor of criminology at Georgia Southern. “The past lectures in the series, given by history professor Eric Hall, sociology professor April Schueths, psychology professor Amy Hackney and myself  have been very successful and have addressed issues related to civil rights, immigration and current police-community relations.” Posick added the inspiration behind the series came from the fragile relationship between police and the community highlighted by recent incidents in Ferguson, Missouri, Cleveland, Ohio, and Staten Island, New York. Goffman’s lecture is free and open to the public, and attendance verification will be provided for students. The Campus Life Enrichment Committee, the Multicultural Student Center and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences contributed to the funding for the series.