Dr. Angela Moe
Dr. Angela (Angie) Moe is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University, with an affiliation with the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. Her degrees include a PhD in Justice Studies, Law and the Social Sciences from Arizona State University (2001), an MS in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1998), and a BA in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (1996). She is also working on a Graduate Certificate in Holistic Health Care, with a specialization in healing through movement, at Western Michigan University (expected 2011). She lives in Mattawan, MI with her two-legged and four-legged family.
Dr. Moe’s areas of interest and expertise include violence against women, feminist criminology, pregnancy and motherhood, holistic healing, and embodied movement. She approaches her research primarily through a feminist qualitative epistemology which lends itself to in-depth interviewing, participant observation, and field research. Her current lines of work center on 1) the connections between maternal depression, domestic violence and pregnancy; 2) cultural discourse surrounding pregnancy and early motherhood and women’s subversions thereof; and 3) women’s holistic healing through Middle Eastern Dance. Among her over two dozen publications are refereed articles in Violence Against Women, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Affilia, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Women and Therapy, Women and Criminal Justice, and Criminal Justice Studies. She holds memberships in several professional organizations, including Sociologists for Women in Society, Midwest Sociological Society, and Congress on Research in Dance.
Dr. Moe has taught a variety of classes for the Department of Sociology and the Criminal Justice Program, including Principles of Sociology, Modern Social Problems, Introduction to Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Gender and Justice, Criminal Justice Process, Victimology, Research Design and Data Collection, Qualitative Research, Proseminar in Sociology, and Teaching Practicum. She is active within four of the department’s graduate concentrations: Gender/Feminism, Criminology, Methods/Applied, and Race/Ethnicity. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and will be participating in the Joint Masters Program in Criminal Justice between Western Michigan University and the University of Malta.