Pamela Oliver
Copy contact details to clipboardExpert on collective action, social movements, news coverage of protests, and racial disparities in criminal justice
Conway-Bascom professor, sociology
608-262-6829 (Work)
Home phone available upon request.
Pamela Oliver
Conway-Bascom professor, sociology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Expert on collective action, social movements, news coverage of protests, and racial disparities in criminal justice
http://ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver/home.htm
oliver@ssc.wisc.edu
608-262-6829 (work)
Home phone available upon request; e-mail experts@uc.wisc.edu
Areas of expertise
- Theory and research on social movements, protests and demonstrations, riots and related phenomena; emphasis on U.S. with some knowledge of global movements
- Media (old and new) and social movements; news coverage of Madison protests in 1990s
- Interactions between police and protesters; repression of protest and movements
- Racial disparities in criminal justice with emphasis on Wisconsin
- Dynamics of crowds and riots
- Civil rights movement, ethnic-racial movements & conflict in U.S. (including Asian, Latino, American Indian & African American movements)
Notable achievements
- Member, Governor's Commission to Reduce Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice
- Member, Dane County Task Force on Racial Disparities
- Member, Dane County Advisory Board on Disproportionate Minority Contact (Juveniles)
- John D. McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Social Movements
Related news releases
- Oliver: Imprisonment patterns show racial tilt Apr. 3, 2001