Carolyn Brooks
M.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: Arts 1105
Phone: 966-5814
Email: carolyn.brooks@usask.ca
Current Teaching:
Soc. 415.3 Selected Problems in Social Control
Soc. 311.3 Youth Crime Justice and Social Control
Soc. 815.3 Selected Problems in Social Control
Soc. 899.3 Intimate Partner Violence
Courses Taught Previously:
Soc 818.3 Advanced Seminar in Criminology
Soc 418.3 Advanced Criminology
Soc 329.3 Penology and Correction
Soc 312.3 Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Soc 330.3 Sociology of Law
Soc 242.3 An Introduction to the Sociology of Women and Gender Studies
Soc 214.3 Social Control
Soc 212.3 Crime and Delinquency
WGST 311.3: Contemporary Feminist Thought
WGST 350.3: Women and Current Legal Issue
WGST 110.6: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
HJ35: Issues in Social Control (School of Human Justice)
Research Grant and Contract Information
Brooks, Carolyn, Primary Investigator (PI), Jennifer Poudrier, Co-Investigator (Co-I), Colleen Dell Co-investigator (Co-I), Les Samuelson Co-investigator (Co-I), Moosomin First Nation, Partner (Partner Organization, Lillian Blackstar representative), Battleford Agency Tribal Chiefs Council, Partner (Partner Organization, Ali St, Martin representative), Okanawastim Wewak, Partner (Partner Organization, Rod LaPlante, representative), “Resilience to Offending: Listening to Youth On-Reserve”, $190, 761.00. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2011-2013.
Brooks, Carolyn, $5,000.00. VP Academic New Faculty Start Up Funding. Research Services, University of Saskatchewan, 2009-2012
Aulakh, Harpreet (PI), Brooks, Carolyn, (Co-I), “Youth “Crime” and “Resilience”: Exploring Community Stakeholders Perspectives”. $11,997.92. Centre for Criminology and Justice Research, Short Term Study Grant, 2010-2011.
Brooks, Carolyn, $999.87, Proposal Development Award, Research Services, University of Saskatchewan, 2010-1011.
Brooks, Carolyn, $991.92. Proposal Development Award, Research Services, University of Saskatchewan, 2010-2011.
Brooks, Carolyn (PI), Stephanie Martin (Co-I), Jennifer Poudrier (Co-I), “In Our Own Words: Understanding Women’s Violence in Intimate Partner Relationships”, $79,842. Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, New Investigator Establishment Program, SHRF Fund, 2010-2012, 39,0??. Available in year one.
Brooks, Carolyn (PI), Jennifer Poudrier (Co-I), Colleen Dell (Co-I), Lillian Blackstar, Community (Co-I), Cora Bird, Community (Co-I), “First Nations and Community Perspectives on Youth Resiliency and Social Justice”, $24,471. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2010-2011.
Brooks, Carolyn (PI), Stephanie Martin (Co-I), “Understanding Women’s use of Violence in Intimate Partner Relationships”, $5000,00. University of Saskatchewan President’s SSHRC Fund, 2010.
Publications:
Books:
Brooks, Carolyn. 2009. Aboriginal Women’s Visions of Aboriginal women's visions of breast cancer survivorship : intersections of race(ism)/class/gender and "...diversity as we define it". University of Saskatchewan unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.
Brooks, Carolyn and Bernard Schissel. (editors). 2008. Marginality and Condemnation: An Introduction to Criminology. Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2nd Edition, 514 pp.
Schissel, Bernard and Carolyn Brooks (editors). 2003. Marginality and Condemnation: An Introduction to Critical Criminology. Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing, 442 pp.
Chapters in Books:
Brooks, Carolyn, Jennifer Poudrier and Roanne Thomas-MacLean. 2008. “Creating Collaborative Visions with Aboriginal Women: A PhotoVoice Project”. In Pranee Liamputtong (ed.). Doing Cross-Cultural Research: Ethical and Methodological Perspectives.
Brooks, Carolyn and Bernard Schissel. 2008. “The Application of Criminological Theory to Contemporary ‘Crime’ Issues.” In Carolyn Brooks and Bernard Schissel. (eds) ), Marginality and Condemnation: An Introduction to Criminology. Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2nd Edition. New chapter. Pp. 456-478.
Brooks, Carolyn. 2008. “The Politics of Imprisonment”. In Carolyn Brooks and Bernard Schissel (eds.). Marginality and Condemnation: An Introduction to Criminology. Halifax: Fernwood.
Brooks, Carolyn. 2008. “Rejecting Short-term Solutions to Crime”. In Carolyn Brooks and Bernard Schissel (eds.). Marginality and Condemnation: An Introduction to Criminology. Halifax: Fernwood.
Brooks, Carolyn. 2003. “New Directions in Critical Criminology”. In Bernard Schissel and Carolyn Brooks (eds.) Marginality and Condemnation: An Introduction to Criminology. Halifax: Fernwood.
Brooks, Carolyn. 2003. “Globalization and a New Class of Disposable People”. In Schissel, Bernard and Carolyn Brooks (eds.) Marginality and Condemnation: An Introduction to Criminology. Halifax: Fernwood.
Carey (Brooks), Carolyn. 1996. “Women in Prisons: The Punishment of Privation”. In Bernard Schissel and Linda MaHood (EDS.). Social Cotnrol in Canada: Issues in the Social Construction of Deviance. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press.
Journals, Conference Proceedings and Abstracts:
Gough, Margot. and Carolyn Brooks. 2011. Co-Chair for the paper Symposium. Researching the Processes of Resilience Among At Risk Youth and Families. Society for Research in Child Development. March 31st to April 2nd, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Brooks, Carolyn. 2011. “I Just Didn’t Tell Anybody What I Was Doing”: Aboriginal Women Cancer Survivors Visualize Social Support. Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, 28 (2/3).
Brooks, Carolyn and Margot Gough. 2011. Researching the Processes of Resilience Among At Risk Youth and Families. Society for Research in Child Development. March 31st to April 2nd, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Brooks, Carolyn and Margot Gough. 2011. Youth-Centered Connections: First Nations Perspectives on Youth, Family and Community Resilience. Society for Research in Child Development. March 31st to April 2nd, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Brooks, Carolyn and Harpreet A Aulakh. 2011. Youth Crime and Resilience in the UK and Canada: Rethinking System-Based Responses and Youth-Centered Innovations. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, March 1-5, 2011, Toronto, Ontario.
Broda, Lisa and Carolyn Brooks. 2011. In Our Own Words: Women Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, March 1-5, 2011, Toronto, Ontario.
Broda, Lisa and Carolyn Brooks 2010. “Understanding Women’s Use of Violence”. RESOLVE Research Day, November 17th, 2010, Calgary, AB.
Roanne Thomas-MacLean, Jennifer Poudrier and Carolyn Brooks, Envisioning the Future with Young Aboriginal Breast Cancer Survivors. Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal. In press.
Brooks, Carolyn, Jennifer Poudrier and Roanne Thomas-MacLean. 2008. Visual Storytelling: Quality of Life Concerns of Aboriginal Women Breast Cancer Survivors. Reasons for Hope Fifth Scientific Conference, Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance, Vancouver B.C., p. 247.
Thomas-MacLean, Roanne, Jennifer Poudrier and Carolyn Brooks. 2007. What is Ethical Health Care? Words and Images from Aboriginal Breast Cancer Survivors. Making Connections: A Canadian Cancer Research Conference Celebrating NCIC’s 60th Anniversary, November 15-17, 2007, Toronto, Ontario, pp. 127.
Brooks, Carolyn, Jennifer Poudrier and Roanne Thomas-MacLean. 2007. “Our Lives through Our Eyes”: Affirming Lived Experiences and Critical Dialogue through Photovoice Research with Aboriginal Women. Poster Session Highlighting Aboriginal Research at the University of Saskatchewan, May 26-June 2, Saskatoon, SK. P. 12.
Brooks. Carolyn. 2007. Situated Activism: Visual Narratives of Saskatchewan Aboriginal Breast Cancer Survivors”. Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, May-June 2007, University of Saskatchewan. P.
Thomas-MacLean, Roanne, Jennifer Poudrier and Carolyn Brooks. 2006. Photography as Empowering for Aboriginal Breast Cancer Survivors: Suggestions for Primary Health Care. 34th Annual North American Primary Health Care Conference, Tucson, AZ. P. 202.
Thomas-MacLean, Roanne, Jennifer Poudrier and Carolyn Brooks. 2006. Empowering Images: Aboriginal Women’s Voices and Photos. Reasons for Hope Fourth Scientific Conference, Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance, Montreal PQ, p. 247.
Brooks, Carolyn, Jennifer Poudrier and Roanne Thomas-MacLean. 2005. Visualizing Breast Cancer: Exploring Aboriginal Women’s Experiences. 5th Annual Saskatchewan Cancer Research Day, December 8, Saskatoon SK. Pp. 18-19.
Technical Reports Prepared Relevant to Academic Field:
Brooks, C. and Popham, J. (2011) “First Nations Youth and Community Perspectives on Youth Resiliency and Social Justice: Learning from Community Stakeholders.” May, 2011.
2008. Multiple Exposures: An Environmental Scan of Miwayawin Health Services regarding healthy body weight and body image. Prepared for the Research Project entitled: Iskwewak Miwayawak Women Feeling Healthy. PI. Dr. Jennifer Poudrier. Funded by: Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR).
Carey (Brooks), Carolyn. Women in Conflict with the Law. Prepared for the Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewan Intermediary Education Project. Funded by: Public Legal Education and Information Special Projects Fund, Department of Justice, Canada.
Carey (Brooks), Carolyn. Aboriginal Women in Conflict with the Law. Prepared for the Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewan Intermediary Education Project. Funded by: Public Legal Education and Information Special Projects Fund, Department of Justice, Canada.
Carey (Brooks), Carolyn. Young Female Offenders. Prepared for the Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewan Intermediary Education Project. Funded by: Public Legal Education and Information Special Projects Fund, Department of Justice, Canada.
Presentations:
Brooks, Carolyn. Chair for Session entitled: Rights and Legal Issues of Migration and Immigration. Economic and Social Integration of Migrants and Immigrants: A Comparative Approach, August 30-31st, 2010, University of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon, Canada.
Brooks, Carolyn. March 2010. Visions of Social Capital. Society for Research on Adolescence. 2010 Biannual meeting. Philadelphia, PA, March 11-13, 2010.
Brooks, Carolyn. 2009. Visualizing a National Picture: Aboriginal Women’s Experiences of Breast Cancer. 9th Annual Saskatchewan Cancer Research Day: Cancer research connections, December 3, 2009. Saskatoon, SK.
Brooks, Carolyn. June 2009. Resilience Through our eyes: Youth and Self Identity. JeanPiaget Society Annual Meeting, Park City, Utah, June 3- 6, 2009.
Brooks, Carolyn. 2008. “Photovoice as a research tool for Iskwewak Miwayawak, Women Feeling Healthy,” Battelford Tribal Councils Communities, 2008.
Brooks, Carolyn and Stephanie Martin. Intimate partner violence and resilience: Lessons from Saskatchewan women's strength and experience. Resolve Research Day, Regina, Saskatchewan, November 19-20, 2009.
Jennifer Poudrier, Roanne Thomas-MacLean and Carolyn Brooks. 2007. Moving Forward: Learning from Aboriginal Breast Cancer Survivors’ Photography. Cancer Research Day, Saskatoon SK December 5, 2007.
Carolyn Brooks. 2007. Situated Activism: Visual Narratives of Saskatchewan Aboriginal Breast Cancer Survivors. Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, May-June 2007, University of Saskatchewan. P.
Carolyn Brooks, Jennifer Poudrier and Roanne Thomas-MacLean. 2007. “Our Lives through Our Eyes”: Affirming Lived Experiences and Critical Dialogue through Photovoice Research with Aboriginal Women. Poster Session Highlighting Aboriginal Research at the University of Saskatchewan, May 26-June 2, Saskatoon, SK. P. 12.
Carolyn Brooks. Discussant for Session entitled: The Marginalization of Children and Youth: A Human Rights Issue. Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, May-June 2007, University of Saskatchewan. P.
Roanne Thomas-MacLean, Jennifer Poudrier and Carolyn Brooks. 2006. Photography as Empowering for Aboriginal Breast Cancer Survivors: Suggestions for Primary Health Care. 34th Annual North American Primary Health Care Conference, Tucson, AZ, p. 202.
Roanne Thomas-MacLean, Jennifer Poudrier and Carolyn Brooks. 2006. Empowering Images: Aboriginal Women’s Voices and Photos. Reasons for Hope Fourth Scientific Conference, Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance, Montreal PQ, p. 247.
Carolyn Brooks, Jennifer Poudrier and Roanne Thomas-MacLean. 2005. Visualizing Breast Cancer: Exploring Aboriginal Women’s Experiences. 5th Annual Saskatchewan Cancer Research Day, December 8, Saskatoon SK. Pp. 18-19.
Brooks, Carolyn. 2005. “Visualizing Breast Cancer: Exploring Aboriginal Women’s Experiences through Photography,” First Nations University.
Brooks, Carolyn. 2004. “Youth Crime, Moral Panics and the Law,” Sociology, First Nations University.
Brooks, Carolyn. 2004. “The Roles and Experiences of a Sessional Lecturer,” Gwenna Moss Center for Teaching Effectiveness Workshop Series, University of Saskatchewan.
Media Coverage:
2005 Researchers study women dealing with abusive relationships, (2005, December), Saskatoon Star Phoenix, p. A8. 2005 Campbell, M. We need to share information about breast cancer. (2005, November), Eagle Feather News, p.5.
2005 French, J. Digital photo project seeks insight into aboriginal breast cancer survivors. (2005, Oct. 31) Saskatoon StarPhoenix, p.A7.
2005 Digital photo project seeks insight into aboriginal breast cancer survivors. (2005, Oct. 31). The Leader-Post, Regina.
2005 Aboriginal breast cancer survivors invited to share their stories. (2005, Sept.). Eagle Feather News, p.22.
