Ana Campos-Holland

Ana Campos-Holland’s research interests are in the sociology of punishment, sociology of families, sociology of childhood, and criminology.  Her research includes studies of social aggressive behavior during childhood, race/ethnicity and delinquency, and family practices under correctional supervision. In collaboration with other scholars, Campos-Holland has published:

• Tapia, Michael, Donald T. Hutcherson, and Ana Campos-Holland, 2011, “U.S. Minorities and Arrest Risk: Race, Ethnic, and Regional Effects” (book chapter), ed. Ruben Martinez, Latinos in the Midwest, Julian Samora Research Institute
• Vélez, María B., Ana Campos-Holland, and Stephan Arndt, 2008, “City’s Racial Composition Shapes Treatment Center Characteristics and Services,” Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, Vol. 7(2).

Her dissertation includes 57 interviews with parents and attempts to understand parenthood within the criminal lifestyle in the streets and under correctional supervision, titled “‘Doing’ Parenthood: Crime, Illicit Drugs, and Parenting under Mass Correctional Supervision.”

In synch with her research, Campos-Holland’s teaching experience includes courses in sociology and criminal justice departments at Augustana College (IL), Saint Ambrose University (IA), and Black Hawk College (IL).  In sociology she has taught Principles of Sociology, Social Problems, Law and Society, Crime and Society, Deviant Behavior, Families and Marriages, Sociological Social Psychology, and Minority Relations.  In criminal justice she has taught Crime and Delinquency, Introduction to Criminal Justice, and Probation and Parole.  Her teaching takes a learner-centered approach, including theoretically driven active learning assignments.  For example, in Principles of Sociology her students apply theoretical perspectives (functionalism, conflict, and symbolic interactionism) in an analysis of 25 newspaper articles (about a topic each student selects).

Campos-Holland will be joining the Department of Sociology at Connecticut College fall 2012 as an Assistant Professor.