Madelaine Adelman
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Phone: 480-965-4886
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777 Novus Suite 310AA TEMPE, AZ 85287-4308
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Mail code: 4308Campus: Tempe
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Madelaine Adelman earned her doctorate in cultural anthropology at Duke University. She is now professor of justice and social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses such as research methods, sexuality and social justice, qualitative data analysis, and identity and justice, to undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students. New ideas about identity, violence, and the state – and opposition to them – animate her research on families and schools, two social institutions that shape both the content and quality of people’s lives in profound ways.
She is the author of "Battering States: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Israel "(Vanderbilt University Press, 2017), and co-editor (with Miriam Elman) of "Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City" (Syracuse University Press, 2014). Adelman also has published articles with colleagues and graduate students on school culture in journals such as the Journal of Poverty, Law & Society Review, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and Violence Against Women. She has examined, with education scholar Catherine Lugg, the gap between the workplace equality and safe schools social movements in the U.S., and how law and policy have been leveraged to counter anti-LGBT bias in K-12 schools. Adelman has reviewed best practices of school-based interventions into anti-LGBT bullying for "The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies," and co-authored a white paper on safe schools in Arizona for the ASU Morrison Policy Institute. She also has given a workshop (2009) and keynote (2010) on the safe schools movement to academics from the Middle East (MEPI, Syracuse University), and shared insights with Kyrgyz (2015) and Polish (2016) civil society groups in the International Visitor Leadership program, both sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Adelman co-founded the GLSEN Phoenix chapter in 2002 and served as its chair or co-chair until 2013, when she became chair of the chapter’s development committee. She was a founding member of GLSEN’s National Advisory Council (2004-2013) and joined GLSEN’s Board of Directors in 2010.
- Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, Duke University 1997
- A.B. Anthropology and Political Science, Undergraduate Certificate in Women's Studies, Duke University 1989
Political and legal anthropology & socio-legal studies; gender violence; LGBTQ+ and education justice, schooling; research methodologies; social movements; Israel-Palestine, Middle East and U.S.
Books
Adelman, Madelaine. 2017. Battering States: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Israel. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
Adelman, Madelaine & Miriam Elman (Eds.). 2014. Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Articles in Refereed Journals
21. Adelman, Madelaine, Karen E. Rosenberg & Margaret Hobart. 2016. Simulations and Social Empathy: Domestic Violence Education in the New Millennium. Violence Against Women: An Interdisciplinary and International Journal, 22(12): 1451-1462. DOI: 10.1177/1077801215625850
20. Adelman, Madelaine & Donna Coker. 2016. Guest Editor Introduction: Pedagogies of Domestic Violence. Violence Against Women, 22(12): 1419-1425. DOI: 10.1177/1077801215625852
19. Adelman, Madelaine & Catherine Lugg. 2012. Symposium: Legally Gay: Schools as Workplaces: The Queer Gap between “Workplace Equality” and “Safe Schools.” Law Journal for Social Justice, 3: 27-46.
18. Adelman, Madelaine, Hillary Haldane & Jennifer Wies. 2012. A Transdisciplinary Effort to Mobilize Culture as an Asset against Gender Violence. Violence Against Women: An Interdisciplinary and International Journal. 18(6): 691-700.
17. Jill Messing, Madelaine Adelman & Alesha Durfee. 2012. Gender Violence and Transdisciplinarity. Violence Against Women: An Interdisciplinary and International Journal 18(6): 641-652.
16. Adelman, Madelaine. 2010. Ambivalent Justice: Sexual Violence and the State in South Africa and Rwanda. VOICES: A Publication of the Association for Feminist Anthropology 10(1): 24-6.
http://afa.americananthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/2010VOICESfinal.pdf
15. Edna Erez, Madelaine Adelman & Carol Gregory. 2009. Intersections of Immigration and Domestic Violence: Voices of Battered Immigrant Women. Feminist Criminology 4(1): 32-56.
Reprinted in Meda Chesney-Lind & Merry Morash (Eds.) 2011. Feminist Theories of Crime. Surrey, UK: Ashgate.
Reprinted in Claire Renzetti, Jeffrey Edleson & Raquel Kennedy Bergen (Eds.). 2012. Companion Reader on Violence against Women. Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Sage.
14. Phoebe Morgan, Madelaine Adelman & Stephen Soli. 2008. Dueling Tragedies: A Critical Read of the Lautenberg Story. Law, Culture and the Humanities 4(3): 424-451.
13. Adelman, Madelaine, Marianne Constable, Inderpal Grewal & Sally Engle Merry. 2008. Author Meets Readers: Human Rights and Gender violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice: The “Culture” of the Global Anti-Gender Violence Social Movement. American Anthropologist 110(4): 511-522.
12. Adelman, Madelaine & Sahee Kil. 2007. Rethinking Dating Violence and Youth Conflict. Violence Against Women: An Interdisciplinary and International Journal 13(12): 1296-1318.
11. Holley, Lynn, Nancy Larson, Madelaine Adelman & Jesús Treviño. 2007. Attitudes among University Undergraduates Toward LGB and Five Ethnic/Racial Groups. Journal of LGBT Youth 5(1): 79-102 [formerly Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education].
10. Adelman, Madelaine & Kathryn Woods. 2006. Identification without Intervention: Transforming the Anti-LGBTQ School Climate. Journal of Poverty: Innovations on Social, Political & Economic Inequalities 10(2): 5-26.
9. Adelman, Madelaine & Phoebe Morgan. 2006. Law Enforcement Versus Battered Women. Afflia: Journal of Women and Social Work 21(1): 28-45.
8. Adelman, Madelaine. 2004. The Battering State: Towards a Political Economy of Domestic Violence. Journal of Poverty: Innovations on Social, Political & Economic Inequalities 8(3): 55-74.
Translated into Japanese and reprinted, 2004: The Battering State: Towards a Political Economy of Domestic Violence. Journal of Education and Social Work (Hokkaido University) 10(1): 23-38.
7. Salcido, Olivia & Madelaine Adelman. 2004. "He Has Me Tied with the Blessed and Damned Papers": Undocumented-Immigrant Battered Women in Phoenix, Arizona. Human Organization 63(2): 162-173.
6. Adelman, Madelaine. 2004. Domestic Violence and Difference. American Ethnologist 31(1): 131-141.
5. Adelman, Madelaine, Edna Erez & Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. 2003. Policing Violence against Minority Women in Multicultural Societies: “Community” and the Politics of Exclusion. Police & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law Enforcement and Criminology 7:105-133.
4. Adelman, Madelaine. 2003. The Military, Militarism and the Militarization of Domestic Violence. Violence Against Women: An Interdisciplinary and International Journal 9(9): 1118-1152.
3. Morrill, Calvin, Christine Yalda, Madelaine Adelman, Michael Musheno & Cindy Bejarano. 2000. Telling Tales in School: Youth Culture and Conflict Narratives. Law & Society Review 34(3): 521-566.
2. Adelman, Madelaine & Christine Yalda. 2000. Seen But Not Heard: The Legal Lives of Young People. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 23(2): 37-58.
1. Adelman, Madelaine. 2000. No Way Out: Divorce-Related Domestic Violence in Israel. Violence Against Women: An Interdisciplinary and International Journal 6(11): 1223-1254.
Chapters in Refereed Books
6. Lugg, Catherine & Madelaine Adelman. 2015. Socio-Legal Contexts of LGBTQ Issues in Education. In George Wimberly, (Ed.), LGBTQ Issues in Education: Advancing a Research Agenda. Pp. 43-73. Washington DC: AERA.
5. Elman, Miriam and Madelaine Adelman. 2014. Knowing Jerusalem. In Madelaine Adelman & Miriam Elman, (Eds.), Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City. Pp. 1-46. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
4. Adelman, Madelaine. 2014. Sex and the City: The Politics of Gay Pride in Jerusalem. In Madelaine Adelman & Miriam Elman, (Eds.), Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City. Pp. 233-260. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
3. Adelman, Madelaine. 2010. Anthropologies of Domestic Violence: Studying Crime in Situ. In Shlomo Giora Shoham, Paul Knepper & Martin Kett (Eds.), International Handbook of Criminology. Pp.183-209. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis.
2. Adelman, Madelaine, Gray Cavender & Nancy Jurik. 2009. The Haunting of Jane Tennison: Investigating Violence against Women in “Prime Suspect.” In Drew Humphries (Ed.), Women, Violence and Media. Pp. 175-196. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
1. Adelman, Madelaine. 2005. Domestic Violence. In Philomena Essed, Audrey Kobayashi & David Theo Goldberg (Eds.), Companion to Gender Studies. Pp. 192-201. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Special Issue Editor
3. Adelman, Madelaine & Donna Coker. 2016. Teaching about Domestic Violence. Violence Against Women 22.
2. Adelman, Madelaine, Alesha Durfee & Jill Messing. 2012. Gender Violence & Transdisciplinarity. Violence Against Women 18(6).
1. Adelman, Madelaine. 2006. Transforming LGBTQ Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century. Journal of Poverty: Innovations on Social, Political & Economic Inequalities 10(2).
Invited Encyclopedia Entries
2. Adelman, Madelaine. May 2016. School-Based Bullying Interventions. In Abbie E. Goldberg (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, Volumes I-III. Pp. 166-170. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
1. Adelman, Madelaine. 2005. Domestic Violence in Israel. In Suad Joseph (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volumes I-VI. Pp. 92-93. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Pub.
Invited Book Reviews
4. Adelman, Madelaine. 2014. Book Review: Anthropology and Political Science: A Convergent Approach. Myron Aronoff & Jan Kubik. New York: Berghahn, 2013. American Ethnologist 41(3): 582-583.
3. Adelman, Madelaine. 2010. Book review: Sheltering Women: Negotiating Gender and Violence in Northern Italy, Sonja Plesset. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. American Ethnologist 37(4): 848-849.
2. Adelman, Madelaine. 2008. Book review: Sharaf Politics: Honor and Peacemaking in Israeli-Palestinian Society. New York: Routledge, 2005. Israel Studies Forum 23(1): 129-131.
1. Adelman, Madelaine. 2001. Book Review: The Military and Militarism in Israeli society. Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari, eds. Albany: State University of New York, 1999. American Ethnologist 28(3): 718-719.
Reports
Erica McFadden and Madelaine Adelman . 2013. White Paper: Resisting Violence and Raising Grades: Creating Safe and Supportive Schools in Arizona. Phoenix: Morrison Institute, Arizona State University. Released at public event “Is Zero Tolerance at Odds with Positive School Climate & Safety?: Examining the Effectiveness of Anti-Bullying and Violence Prevention Strategies,” with panelists Anna Cicero (former president of Arizona School Counselor Association), Charles Flanagan (Director, Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections), Eric Hedberg (Senior Analyst, Morrison Institute for Public Policy) and Eric Meyer (Arizona State Representative, District 28), and closing remarks by John Huppenthal (Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction), held at Burton Barr Public Library, Phoenix, AZ, April 2, 2013.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| SST 493 | Honors Thesis |
| WST 593 | Applied Project |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| JUS 792 | Research |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| SST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| JUS 329 | Domestic Violence |
| JUS 329 | Domestic Violence |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| JUS 599 | Thesis |
| JUS 792 | Research |
| JUS 521 | Qualitative Data Analys & Eval |
| CRD 799 | Dissertation |
| JUS 590 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 792 | Research |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| CRD 799 | Dissertation |
| JUS 590 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 599 | Thesis |
| JUS 593 | Applied Project |
| JUS 521 | Qualitative Data Analys & Eval |
| SST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SST 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SST 498 | Pro-Seminar |
| JUS 650 | Adv Qualitative Data Analysis |
| CRD 799 | Dissertation |
| CRD 690 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 592 | Research |
| JUS 599 | Thesis |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| SST 493 | Honors Thesis |
| CRD 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CRD 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 521 | Qualitative Data Analys & Eval |
| JUS 498 | Pro-Seminar |
| WST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 498 | Pro-Seminar |
| JUS 599 | Thesis |
| JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
| CRD 690 | Reading and Conference |
| CRD 792 | Research |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 329 | Domestic Violence |
| JUS 329 | Domestic Violence |
| CRD 792 | Research |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 792 | Research |
| CRD 792 | Research |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 650 | Adv Qualitative Data Analysis |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| JUS 493 | Honors Thesis |
| JUS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| JUS 590 | Reading and Conference |
| JUS 592 | Research |
| JUS 599 | Thesis |
| JUS 792 | Research |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 521 | Qualitative Data Analys & Eval |
| JUS 593 | Applied Project |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| JUS 493 | Honors Thesis |
| JUS 498 | Pro-Seminar |
| JUS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| JUS 590 | Reading and Conference |
| JUS 592 | Research |
| JUS 593 | Applied Project |
| JUS 599 | Thesis |
| JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
| JUS 792 | Research |
| JUS 799 | Dissertation |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 301 | Research in Justice Studies |
| JUS 371 | Sexuality and Social Justice |