Dr. Angela Moe is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University. She earned a B.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (1996), an M.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1998), and a Ph.D. in Justice Studies, Law and the Social Sciences from Arizona State University (2001). Her areas of expertise include feminist criminology, violence against women, and qualitative epistemology. She has published in Violence Against Women, Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and Women and Criminal Justice. 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. In 2005 she will serve on the editorial board for a new journal entitled, Feminist Criminology, which will be launched by the Division on Women and Crime.

Dr. Moe teaches primarily within the Criminal Justice Program for the Department of Sociology (courses include Juvenile Delinquency and Victimology), but also facilitates the department’s College Teaching Practicum. In the Fall of 2005, she will team-teach a class with Dr. Rachel Bridges Whaley on Research Design and Data Collection as part of a developing sequence for research foundations and experiential learning.