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Teaching Award Honors SOU Criminology Professor (2/18/09)

Dr. Alison Burke, assistant professor of criminology at Southern Oregon University (SOU), has been selected to receive an Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences SAGE Junior Faculty Teaching Award.

The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) is an international association that fosters professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice. The association partnered with SAGE publishing to create this teaching award for the first time this year. The award was created to recognize “significant promise in teaching.”

Burke will be recognized at the 2009 ACJS awards ceremony, held in conjunction with its annual meeting and professional development teaching workshop March 10 through 15 in Boston.

This is the second year in a row that Burke has won a conference award. Last year, Burke received the award for “Outstanding Graduate Research Paper” for the Juvenile Justice Section. She was a doctoral student at the time at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Burke teaches classes on criminological theory, crime control policy and environmental crime at SOU.