Vivian Swayne
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Vivian Swayne
Vivian Swayne is a fourth year PhD candidate in sociology, 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. She is currently writing her dissertation, which is an analytical tour of murals around the world that both reproduce and refuse cultural reproductions of police power. Swayne’s dissertation is informed by her role as Project Manager for Abolition Now!: Digital Archive, a carefully curated online space and database built for movement artists and cultural organizers featuring original art, study guides, and documentary interviews. 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.
Interest Area
Criminology