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Biography
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Kimberly D. Richman
Assistant Professor: Sociology
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Kimberly Richman received her B.A. at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, where she also completed a Graduate Emphasis in Women's Studies. She currently teaches Criminology; Sociology of Law; and Deviance and Social Control; and will teach U.S. Inequalities and Social Justice; Gender, Sexuality, and Law; and Law, Crime, and Morality in the future.
Her research interests include gender, sexuality, and law; crime, law, and the social construction of "deviance"; family law; legal consciousness; court processes; and reintegrative programming for prison inmates. She is the author of the forthcoming book Courting Change (NYU Press) and multiple articles and book chapters on the topic of child custody and adoption for gay and lesbian parents, in which she investigates the negotiation of sexual and parental identity in family court, the problematic deployment of rights discourses in the LGBT family law context, and the development of expanded legal definitions of family over time. These articles appear in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Law & Sexuality, and in the edited volume, The New Civil Rights Research. She is also the author of two articles on domestic violence, appearing in Sociological Inquiry and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, and co-author of a book chapter on anti-gay violence (with Valerie Jenness) in the Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Her current research analyzes variation in legal consciousness regarding same sex marriage through interviews with gay and lesbian couples in San Francisco and Massachusetts. In addition, she is a sponsor and Executive Advisor for the San Quentin T.R.U.S.T. for the Development of Incarcerated Men, an inmate-led rehabilitative and community service program at San Quentin State Prison.
Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-5414
Fax: (415) 422-5671
Email: kdrichman@usfca.edu
Office: Kalmanovitz Hall, 222C
Office Hours: MW 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
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