Katheryn Russell-Brown
Katheryn Russell-Brown is an American social scientist, professor of law and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at University of Florida Law School. Her main areas of expertise are race and crime, sociology of law and criminal law.Education
Russell-Brown received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, her J.D. from the Hastings College of Law and her Ph.D. from the criminology department of the University of Maryland, College Park.Memberships
Russell-Brown is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the American Bar Association, and is currently executive counselor to the American Society of Criminology. She is also on the editorial board of the Carolina Academic Press, as well as that of Critical Criminology and Justice Quarterly.Career
Russell-Brown previously taught at Alabama State University, Howard University, City University of New York School of Law, Washington College of Law, and the University of Maryland.
Russell-Brown was cited by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Harris v. Alabama in regard to her article The Constitutionality of Jury Override in Alabama Death Penalty Cases.Works
As Katheryn K. Russell
- The Constitutionality of Jury Override in Alabama Death Penalty Cases
- The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment and Other Macroaggressions
- Race and Crime: An Annotated Bibliography
- Petit Apartheid in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: The Dark Figure of Racism with Dragan Milovanovic
As Katheryn Russell-Brown
- Underground Codes: Race, Crime and Related Fires
- Protecting Our Own: Race, Crime, and African Americans
- The Color of Crime
- ''Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
