David Kauzlarich, Ph.D.

Professor and Department Head of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro

Professor Kauzlarich went to the UNCG Sociology Department Head position in 2017 after 20 years (six as Department Chair) in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology at Western Michigan University in 1994.

Dave has published seven books and over three dozen scholarly articles and essays ranging in subjects from victimology, sociological and criminological theory, state and corporate crime, crimes of the powerful, and social justice. He is currently working on a project examining music as resistance to the crimes of the powerful using both autoethnographic and interview methodology.

Dave served as Editor-in-Chief of Critical Criminology: An International Journal from 2013-2018 and has held a number of leadership positions in the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology.

Dr. Kauzlarich's recent publications include:

Kauzlarich, D., & Awsumb, C. M. (2018). Confronting state oppression: The role of music. In W. S. DeKeseredy & M. Dragiewicz (Eds.), Routledge handbook of critical criminology (2nd ed., pp. 465-476). Routledge.
Rothe, D. L., & Kauzlarich, D. (2017). We are all complicit: Victimization and crimes of the powerful. In S. Walklate (ed.), Handbook of Victims and Victimology, 2nd edition. Routledge.