Last updated on: 1/31/2008 | Author: ProCon.org

Valerie Jenness, PhD Biography

Title:
Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of California at Irvine
Position:
None Found to the question "Should Prostitution Be Legal?"
Reasoning:

No position found as of June 29, 2007

Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Co-Editor, Contemporary Sociology, 2005-present
  • Professor, Sociology and Criminology, University of California at Irvine, 1997-present
  • Distinguished Article Award, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association, 2007
  • President, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2006-2007
  • Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research, University of California at Irvine, 2006
  • Chair, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California at Irvine, 2001-2006
  • Faculty Fellow, University of California-Washington, D.C. Center Program, 2001
  • Lee-Founders Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2001
  • Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association, 2001
  • Alfred R. Lindesmith Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1998
  • Graduate Faculty, Washington State University, 1993-1997
  • Assistant Professor, Sociology, Washington State University, 1991-1997
  • Donald R. Cressey Award, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1994
Education:
  • PhD, Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1991
  • MA, Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1987
  • BS, Sociology, Central Washington University, 1985
Other:
  • None found