Dr. Angela Moe
Dr. Angela (Angie) Moe is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University. She earned a BA in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (1996), an MS in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1998), and a PhD in Justice Studies, Law and the Social Sciences from Arizona State University (2001). Her areas of expertise include feminist criminology, violence against women, sociology of gender, and gender performance/construction. She approaches her research primarily through a feminist qualitative epistemology which lends itself to in-depth interviewing, participant observation, and grounded field research. While the vast majority of her research has focused on the criminalization and victimization of women in the US, she is currently embarked on a historical-comparative ethnography of Middle Eastern dance (aka bellydance).
Among her numerous publications are refereed articles in such journals as Violence Against Women, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Women and Therapy, Women and Criminal Justice, and Criminal Justice Studies. She is an active member of the American Society of Criminology (Division on Women and Crime), the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Sociologists for Women in Society, and Midwest Sociological Society. She currently serves as a founding board member and deputy editor for Feminist Criminology, an internationally recognized journal launched in 2005 by the Division on Women and Crime. She is also the 2007-08 President of the Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society.
Dr. Moe teaches primarily within the Criminal Justice Program for the Department of Sociology (Introduction to Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Gender and Justice, Criminal Justice Process, Victimology). She is also active within the sociology curriculum (Principles of Sociology, Modern Social Problems, Research Design and Data Collection, Qualitative Research, Teaching Practicum). She currently serves as Associate Department Chair, Undergraduate Program Director, as well as the Gender and Feminism Area Chair.