Walter DeKeseredy, Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and director of the Research Center on Violence at WVU, will be inducted into the American Society of Criminology Fellows tomorrow (Nov. 16) at the 2022 American Society of Criminology meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
ASC Fellows are recognized for their scholarly contributions to criminology and distinction in the discipline.
“I am incredibly honored and humbled to receive this recognition,” DeKeseredy said. “The ASC Fellows consist of the best criminologists in the world and to be listed among them feels like a dream.”
DeKeseredy is also this year’s recipient of the Praxis Award for his work in diversity, equity and social inclusion research and initiatives and the Robert Jerin Book of the Year Award for his book “Woman Abuse in Rural Places."
“Professor DeKeseredy’s contributions are not merely academic — his work has transformed the way we think of power dynamics in society and how it impacts our justice responses to crime and criminality,” Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Dean Gregory Dunaway said. “WVU and Eberly are fortunate to have this world-renowned scholar among its faculty.”
DeKeseredy has published 27 books, more than 130 journal articles and 90 scholarly book chapters on issues such as violence against women, rural criminology, criminological theory and more.
In addition to his roles at WVU, he serves as an adjunct professor in Monash University’s Gender and Family Violence Prevention Center.
He received the Impact Award from the ACJS’s section on Victimology in 2017, the Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Section on Critical Criminal Justice in 2014, and the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma’s Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award in 2008.
He has also been recognized many times over the years by the ASC for his excellence in criminology research and scholarship. His many honors include the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award and the 1995 Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the ASC’s Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice.