Nicole Fox

Nicole Fox, Ph.D., researches how racial and ethnic contention impacts communities, including how remembrances of adversity shape social change, collective memory and present-day social movements. She is a professor of criminal justice at California State University Sacramento where she teaches on comparative criminal justice, history of the American criminal justice system and global criminology. Her forthcoming book, Rebuilding from the Ashes: Memory and Reconciliation After the Rwandan Genocide, focuses on how memorials to past atrocity shape healing, community development and reconciliation for survivors of genocide and genocidal rape. Her most recent project examines bystander intervention, with an emphasis on individuals who conducted acts of rescue during times of social unrest and political violence. Her scholarship has been published in Social Forces, the Journal for Scientific Study of Religion, Sociological Forum, Societies without borders, the International Journal of Sociology of the Family, among others. Her work has generously been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Grant, the National Science Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, TAG Institute for Social Values, University of New Hampshire’s Prevention Innovation Research Center, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Society for the Study of Social Problems and the American Sociological Society’s Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline and others.