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Avi Brisman, Ph.D.

Professor

Education

  • Ph.D., Emory University
  • M.A., Emory University
  • J.D., University of Connecticut
  • M.F.A., Pratt Institute

Research & Academic Interests

  • Critical criminology
  • Cultural criminology
  • Green criminology
  • Narrative criminology

Publications

  • Brisman, Avi, and Nigel South. 2025. Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms: A Green Cultural Criminological Perspective. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
  • Brisman, Avi. 2025. Direct Action as Conceptual Art?: An Examination of the Role of the Communiqué for Ecodefense. Cham, CH: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature.

Associations, Affiliations & Work History

  • Honorary Professor, Newcastle School of Law & Justice, University of Newcastle (Callaghan, NSW, Australia)
  • University Fellow, Centre for Law & Social Justice, Newcastle School of Law & Justice, University of Newcastle (Callaghan, NSW, Australia
  • Adjunct Professor, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, QLD, Australia)

Awards & Accolades

  • Critical Criminologist of the Year Award (2015), Division on Critical Criminology, American Society of Criminology.