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My name is Vivian Swayne, and thank you for visiting my home on the web.
I am a sociologist with concentrations in critical criminology and women, gender, and sexuality studies. I formerly worked as a residential and transitional housing counselor and have experience working with trauma survivors and the criminal legal system. My main areas of interest are policing, sexuality, and culture, and I have publications in the Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Critical Criminology, The Journal of Law and Political Economy, and Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Building from my recent dissertation, my research considers murals around the world that both reproduce and refuse cultural representations of police power, particularly murals painted by police agencies. Other research projects central to my scholarship include collaborative work investigating police calls for service in the South, community listening projects about police and school safety, and arts based research about Southern queer identity. Additionally, I am a mixed media visual artist and the sousaphonist for the Knox Honkers and Bangers, Knoxville's local adult marching band. Feel free to explore my site and contact me with any questions. |
EDUCATION
2024, PhD The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology, Criminology/Women, Gender, and Sexuality
2020, MA The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology
2016, BA The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology
AREAS OF INTEREST
Visual Sociology
Visual Criminology
Art and Social Movements
Alternatives to Punishment
Police (911) Calls for Service
Policing Sexuality
State Violence
Housing Insecurity and Discrimination
Critical Race, Queer, and Feminist Theory
Neutralizations and Cognitive Dissonance
Restorative Justice in K-12 Schools
Conflict Mediation and De-escalation
PUBLICATIONS
Swayne, V and Wall, T (2024). “Normalizing State Rape: (In)Voluntary Consent and the Body Cavity Search.” Critical Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-024-09764-6
Brown, M., Martinez, K. and Swayne, V. “The Legal Violence of Police Calls for Service: Toward New Community Safety Infrastructure.” Journal of Law and Political Economy. (Forthcoming)
Swayne, V. (2023). “Queer Pleasure: Sexual Liberation and Abolition Within and Against State Violence.” Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research Vol. 12. pp. 55-80 https://www.cijs.ca/volume-12
Swayne, V. (2023). “Working Through the Past: Punishment, Accountability, and Transformation Within Self and Structure”, Dahms, H.F. (Ed.) Planetary Sociology (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 40), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 157-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0278-120420230000040010
PUBLISHED DATA SETS
Brown, M. and Swayne, V. (2024, anticipated prototype). “Abolition Now!” Digital Archive.
Dejarlais-deKlerk, K.; Brooks, T.; Johnson, M.; Koski, S.; Rainey, E.; and Swayne, V. (2023). "Fluid Homes: Navigating Gender, Sexuality, and Housing Insecurity Discourses on Social Media," Summer Sexuality Fellowship. 2. https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/summer-sexuality-fellowship/2/
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
June 2024: “Policing Murals and Abolition Artworlds: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Polemic Discursive Fields,” 41st International Visual Sociology Association (Visual Accountability: Show Don't Tell), Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
June 2024: “Abolition Now: Images for Study and Struggle,” 41st International Visual Sociology Association (Visual Accountability: Show Don't Tell), Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
October 2023: “Policing Murals Worldwide: Racialized Memorialization, Insurgent Critique, and Transnational Constructions of Solidarity,” Mid-South Sociological Association, New Orleans (Virtual Presentation)
November 2022: “The Legal Violence of Calling the Police: Abolition as Emergency Response,” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
April 2021: “The 911 Call as a Horizon of Abolition,” Imagining Abolition: Beyond Prisons, Wars, and Borders (Virtual Conference)
May 2020: “Police Calls for Service,” The Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (Virtual Conference)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
April-May 2024: Visualizing Abolition Dissertation Workshop, UC Santa Cruz
2024: Restorative Practices Training & Certification, Initiative for Race Research and Justice
2019-2024: Newsletter Editor, American Sociological Association Section on Sex and Gender
2017-2023: Residential Counselor and Education Specialist, Helen Ross McNabb Center
Summer 2023: Human Sexuality Fellow, California Institute for Integral Studies
June 2023: Cultural Organizing 101: Train the Trainers, Highlander Education and Research Center
Spring 2023: CIRTL Associate Level of Certification, Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning
Spring 2023: Introduction to Online Teaching Certificate, Online Learning & Academic Programs and Teaching & Innovation
2022-2023: Research Assistant for “Southern Queer Identity Arts Based Research Study” for Leia Cain, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling
2022: Cultural Organizing 101, Highlander Education and Research Center
2022: Trauma Informed Community De-Escalation Training, Healing East Tennessee Alternative Response Team (HEART)
2020-2021: Research Assistant for Tyler Wall, Department of Sociology
2019-2020: Solidarity in Action Workshop Series, Highlander Education and Research Center
2019: “The Obscene Made Lawful: A Genealogy of the ‘Body Cavity Search,” Summer Graduate Research Assistantship Fund, $3600
2019: “Policing Rage in the Urban Age of Crisis and Extremes,” Antipode Foundation International Workshop
2017: “KARM: What Makes An Emergency Shelter?” The Amplifier, East Tennessee Peace and Justice Center
CREATIVE WORK
2023-2024: Sousaphonist, Knoxville Honkers and Bangers, Cattywampus Puppet Council
2023-2024: Graphic Note Taking, Community Safety, Appalachian Justice Research Center
2023: Cultural Workers Against the Death Penalty, Donkeysaddle Projects
August 2023: Graphic Note Taking, CO 101: TTT, Highlander Education and Research Center
August 2023: Black August Political Education and Collective Art Project Mini Series, Kairos Center, Donkeysaddle Projects, & Highlander Education and Research Center
August 2023: First Friday Showcase, Hexagon Brewing Co.
December 2022: First Friday Showcase, South Press Coffee
March 2021-August 2022: Resident Artist, Knoxbox Karaoke
August 2021-December 2021: Resident Artist, South Press Coffee
February 2021-September 2021: Resident Artist, Sondr Consulting
Spring 2020: Painting Instructor, ArtAbled, SPARK
2024, PhD The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology, Criminology/Women, Gender, and Sexuality
2020, MA The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology
2016, BA The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology
AREAS OF INTEREST
Visual Sociology
Visual Criminology
Art and Social Movements
Alternatives to Punishment
Police (911) Calls for Service
Policing Sexuality
State Violence
Housing Insecurity and Discrimination
Critical Race, Queer, and Feminist Theory
Neutralizations and Cognitive Dissonance
Restorative Justice in K-12 Schools
Conflict Mediation and De-escalation
PUBLICATIONS
Swayne, V and Wall, T (2024). “Normalizing State Rape: (In)Voluntary Consent and the Body Cavity Search.” Critical Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-024-09764-6
Brown, M., Martinez, K. and Swayne, V. “The Legal Violence of Police Calls for Service: Toward New Community Safety Infrastructure.” Journal of Law and Political Economy. (Forthcoming)
Swayne, V. (2023). “Queer Pleasure: Sexual Liberation and Abolition Within and Against State Violence.” Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research Vol. 12. pp. 55-80 https://www.cijs.ca/volume-12
Swayne, V. (2023). “Working Through the Past: Punishment, Accountability, and Transformation Within Self and Structure”, Dahms, H.F. (Ed.) Planetary Sociology (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 40), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 157-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0278-120420230000040010
PUBLISHED DATA SETS
Brown, M. and Swayne, V. (2024, anticipated prototype). “Abolition Now!” Digital Archive.
Dejarlais-deKlerk, K.; Brooks, T.; Johnson, M.; Koski, S.; Rainey, E.; and Swayne, V. (2023). "Fluid Homes: Navigating Gender, Sexuality, and Housing Insecurity Discourses on Social Media," Summer Sexuality Fellowship. 2. https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/summer-sexuality-fellowship/2/
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
June 2024: “Policing Murals and Abolition Artworlds: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Polemic Discursive Fields,” 41st International Visual Sociology Association (Visual Accountability: Show Don't Tell), Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
June 2024: “Abolition Now: Images for Study and Struggle,” 41st International Visual Sociology Association (Visual Accountability: Show Don't Tell), Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
October 2023: “Policing Murals Worldwide: Racialized Memorialization, Insurgent Critique, and Transnational Constructions of Solidarity,” Mid-South Sociological Association, New Orleans (Virtual Presentation)
November 2022: “The Legal Violence of Calling the Police: Abolition as Emergency Response,” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
April 2021: “The 911 Call as a Horizon of Abolition,” Imagining Abolition: Beyond Prisons, Wars, and Borders (Virtual Conference)
May 2020: “Police Calls for Service,” The Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (Virtual Conference)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
April-May 2024: Visualizing Abolition Dissertation Workshop, UC Santa Cruz
2024: Restorative Practices Training & Certification, Initiative for Race Research and Justice
2019-2024: Newsletter Editor, American Sociological Association Section on Sex and Gender
2017-2023: Residential Counselor and Education Specialist, Helen Ross McNabb Center
Summer 2023: Human Sexuality Fellow, California Institute for Integral Studies
June 2023: Cultural Organizing 101: Train the Trainers, Highlander Education and Research Center
Spring 2023: CIRTL Associate Level of Certification, Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning
Spring 2023: Introduction to Online Teaching Certificate, Online Learning & Academic Programs and Teaching & Innovation
2022-2023: Research Assistant for “Southern Queer Identity Arts Based Research Study” for Leia Cain, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling
2022: Cultural Organizing 101, Highlander Education and Research Center
2022: Trauma Informed Community De-Escalation Training, Healing East Tennessee Alternative Response Team (HEART)
2020-2021: Research Assistant for Tyler Wall, Department of Sociology
2019-2020: Solidarity in Action Workshop Series, Highlander Education and Research Center
2019: “The Obscene Made Lawful: A Genealogy of the ‘Body Cavity Search,” Summer Graduate Research Assistantship Fund, $3600
2019: “Policing Rage in the Urban Age of Crisis and Extremes,” Antipode Foundation International Workshop
2017: “KARM: What Makes An Emergency Shelter?” The Amplifier, East Tennessee Peace and Justice Center
CREATIVE WORK
2023-2024: Sousaphonist, Knoxville Honkers and Bangers, Cattywampus Puppet Council
2023-2024: Graphic Note Taking, Community Safety, Appalachian Justice Research Center
2023: Cultural Workers Against the Death Penalty, Donkeysaddle Projects
August 2023: Graphic Note Taking, CO 101: TTT, Highlander Education and Research Center
August 2023: Black August Political Education and Collective Art Project Mini Series, Kairos Center, Donkeysaddle Projects, & Highlander Education and Research Center
August 2023: First Friday Showcase, Hexagon Brewing Co.
December 2022: First Friday Showcase, South Press Coffee
March 2021-August 2022: Resident Artist, Knoxbox Karaoke
August 2021-December 2021: Resident Artist, South Press Coffee
February 2021-September 2021: Resident Artist, Sondr Consulting
Spring 2020: Painting Instructor, ArtAbled, SPARK
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