CLAS Dean Chaden Djalali announced Thursday that Karen Heimer, a professor in the Department of Sociology who is affiliated with the Department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies will serve a renewable five-year appointment as CLAS Collegiate Fellow. The 2018 President of the American Society of Criminology, Heimer conducts research and teaches in the areas of gender and violence, criminal punishment, and juvenile delinquency. Her current research focuses on gender and race differences in violent victimization; motherhood narratives of women in prison; gender and race differences in incarceration; and criminal punishment in the United States and in England. Heimer’s work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Justice. She is currently the University of Iowa Principle Investigator on a National Institute of Justice grant to implement and evaluate a trauma and violence intervention program in the Cedar Rapids schools, and she served on the National Academies of Sciences’ CNSTAT panel on Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault.  In 2012, Heimer received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology, and in 2015 was elected Fellow of that organization. She was recently awarded the 2018 Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence.

Collegiate Fellow is the college’s highest faculty honor, in recognition of distinguished teaching, research, and service.