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Krista Mcqueeney
Associate Professor

  • Department(s): SOCIOLOGY CRIMINOLOGY & ANTHRO
  • Office Location: Laurentide Hall 2117
  • Phone: (262) 472-1093
  • Email: mcqueenk@uww.edu

Dr. McQueeney is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin -Whitewater. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on mass media, intersectionality, and violence. In 2018, Dr. McQueeney co-edited the volume Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality: Transforming the Discourse of Mean Girls in the United States with Routledge Press. Her articles have appeared in Social Problems, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, and Violence against Women, among other peer-reviewed journals. She is currently writing a book about white women’s complicity with racial violence in the United States.