Maya Barak
Assistant Professor
Criminal Justice Studies
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN
United States of America
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. I hold a PhD in Justice, Law and Criminology from American University (2016), an MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Eastern Michigan University (2011), and a BA in Social Anthropology and Peace and Social Justice from the University of Michigan (2009).
Research Interest
My research brings together the areas of law, deviance, immigration, and power, utilizing interdisciplinary approaches that span the fields of criminology, law and society, and anthropology.
Publications
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Death row confinement and the meaning of last words R Johnson, LC Kanewske, M Barak - Laws, 2014
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Voices of Latino/a Immigrants in Southeast Michigan: Beyond the Criminal/Victim Dichotomy M Barak - 2011
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Barak, Maya. (forthcoming). "Popular Media and the Death Penalty: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Death Penalty in Film." In Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment, edited by Gavin Lee and Robert Bohm. NY: Taylor and Francis.
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Gould, Jon B. and Maya Barak. (forthcoming). Capital Defense: The Lives and Work of Capital Defenders. New York: NYU Press.
