Welch, Michael

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Michael Welch
Professor of Criminal Justice
Areas of Specialization: Punishment/Corrections, Foucault Studies, Human Rights
Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room A357
Campus: Livingston Campus
Faculty Office Hours:
T 4:29pm – 5:29pm

Th 4:29pm - 5:29pm
Phone: 848-445-4284
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Education: Ph.D. University of North Texas (Sociology), M.S. Illinois State University (Criminal Justice Sciences), M.A. University of Missouri-Kansas City (Counseling Psychology), B.A. Benedictine College (Atchison, KS) (Psychology)

Biography

By way of introduction, I am a Professor at Rutgers University (USA) as well as a Visiting Professor at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and the Institute of Criminology, Law School, University of Sydney (Australia). I have recently completed a trilogy of books titled: Visions of Prisons: Wars, Walls & Watching (2026), The Bastille Effect, Transforming Sites of Political Imprisonment (2022), and Escape to Prison: Penal Tourism and the Pull of Punishment (2015), all at the University of California Press.

For more information about Professor Welch, please visit his website www.professormichaelwelch.com.