Education

• PhD, 2022, University of South Carolina, Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Graduate Certificate, 2019, University of South Carolina, Gender and Women's Studies
• B.A., 2015, Saint Mary College, Sociology

Bio

Kelsey M. Westbury, Ph.D. is an Instructor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina. She graduated from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN with her B.A. in Sociology in 2015 and received her Graduate Certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of South Carolina in 2019. Most recently, Dr. Westbury received her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of South Carolina in 2022, where her dissertation focused on gender stereotypes within the media's portrayal of women sentenced to death in the United States. Dr. Westbury's research interests include capital punishment, restorative justice, prisoner reentry, gender and crime, and crime in the media.

Specialization

• Feminist criminologies
• Gender studies
• Media studies
• Capital punishment
• Qualitative methods

Publications

Andersen, T. S., Isom Scott, D., & Collins, K. (2018). Constructing the "bad girls" hype: An intersectional analysis of news media's depictions of violent girls. In K. McQueeney & Malone (Eds.), Girls, aggression, and intersectionality: Transforming the discourse of "mean girls" in the United States (pp. 24-44). New York: Routledge.

Alexander, S. M., & Collins, K. (2015). From patriotic troops to branded boyhood: Hegemonic boyhood masculinity as depicted on Boy's Life magazine, 1911-2012. Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 8(1), 84-109.