Event Speakers' Biography
Shopping Under suspicion: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Profiling in Retail Settings
(Guest Speaker)
Dr. Shaun L. Gabbidon
Shaun L. Gabbidon, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Penn State Harrisburg. This semester he is a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Sam Houston State University. Professor Gabbidon has also served as a fellow at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research and has taught at the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of more than 75 peer-reviewed articles and 13 books, including Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime (2020, Routledge), and the co-authored works, A Theory of African American Offending (2011, Routledge) and Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America (2020, Routledge). Professor Gabbidon is a Fellow of both the American Society of Criminology (ASC) and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). In 2024, he was the recipient of the Faculty Scholar Medal for the Social Sciences, which is the highest award for scholarship at Penn State University. Dr. Gabbidon will be a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at The University of Birmingham (UK) in Spring 2025.
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