Education

• PhD, 2022, University of South Carolina, Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Graduate Certificate, 2019, University of South Carolina, Gender and Women's Studies
• B.A., 2015, Saint Mary College, Sociology

Bio

Kelsey M. Collins is an Instructor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina. She graduated from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN with her B.A. in Sociology and has her Graduate Certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of South Carolina. Kelsey is currently in the final stages of completing her PhD here at UofSC. 

Her research focuses on gender stereotypes in the media, primarily focusing on how gender and racial stereotypes are perpetuated in crime news. Her dissertation looks at how women sentenced to death are depicted is newspaper articles. She also works with South Carolina’s 11th circuit’s Juvenile Arbitration program, providing first-time juvenile offenders opportunities to serve alternative sanctions rather than be processed through the formal criminal justice system. Kelsey has taught courses on the criminal justice system, the American court system, corrections, and alternatives to incarceration.

Specialization

• Feminist criminologies
• Gender studies
• Media studies
• Capital punishment
• Qualitative methods

Publications

Andersen, T. S., Isom Scott, D., & Collins, K. (2018). Constructing the "bad girls" hype: An intersectional analysis of news media's depictions of violent girls. In K. McQueeney & Malone (Eds.), Girls, aggression, and intersectionality: Transforming the discourse of "mean girls" in the United States (pp. 24-44). New York: Routledge.

Alexander, S. M., & Collins, K. (2015). From patriotic troops to branded boyhood: Hegemonic boyhood masculinity as depicted on Boy's Life magazine, 1911-2012. Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 8(1), 84-109.