Vivian Swayne completed her PhD in sociology in 2023, concentrating in criminology with certificates in social theory and women, gender, and sexuality studies. Her main areas of interest are policing, sexuality, and culture publications in the Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research and Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Swayne has  experience using NVivo, Dedoose, R, and Adobe with methodological training in statistics, multimodal discourse analysis, conducting focus groups, interviewing, survey techniques, ethnographic field methods, arts-based research, and visual criminology. Additionally, the California Institute of Integral Studies selected Swayne as a Sexuality Fellow to help write a databank on sexuality discourse across social media entitled Fluid Homes: Navigating Gender, Sexuality, and Housing Insecurity Discourses on Social Media. Other research projects central to Swayne’s scholarship include collaborative work investigating police calls for service in the South, community listening projects about police and school safety, and arts based research about Southern queer identity. She currently serves as the Newsletter Editor for the American Sociological Association’s Section on Sex and Gender. Formerly, she worked with trauma survivors and the criminal legal system as a residential counselor.