Biography

Charlene Shroulote-Durán, is an enrolled citizen of the Pueblo of Acoma tribal nation, located in northern New Mexico. Charlene, an Avilés-Johnson Fellow, is a first-generation, non-traditional, teacher scholar, and currently a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. She earned a BA in Government and Chicano Studies with a minor in Sociology (2009), a master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA) in 2011, and a master’s degree in  Criminal Justice (2013), all from New Mexico State University. Her dissertation work explores Native/Indigenous identity in the U.S. Southwest.

Publications

Durán, Robert J., and Charlene Shroulote-Durán. 2022. “Institutionalizing Community Oversight of the Police: Copwatch” in Justice and Legitimacy in Policing: Transforming the Institution, edited by Miltonette Olivia Craig and Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill. New York: Routledge.

Durán, Robert J., and Charlene M. Shroulote-Durán. 2021. “The Racialized Patterns of Police Violence: The Critical Importance of Research as Praxis.” Sociology Compass 15(8):1-15.

Alatorre, Francisco, and Charlene Shroulote. 2014. “Vagrancy and the Homeless”. Vol. 1, Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics, edited by Bruce A. Arrigo. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.