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Rachel Durso serves as Associate Professor of Sociology & Black Studies and Department Chair of Sociology at Washington College. Based in 212 Goldstein with office hours Monday 1:30-3:30pm and Tuesday/Thursday 8:30-9:30am, she can be contacted at rdurso2@washcoll.edu.
Her educational background includes a B.A. from Ohio University Honors Tutorial College (2007), followed by M.A. (2009) and Ph.D. (2014) from The Ohio State University.
Professor Durso's research centers on mass incarceration consequences in 21st-century America, analyzing how social control of minority groups, partisanship, and historical punishment practices influence corrections spending, prison admissions, and privatization through macro quantitative methods. She additionally investigates political activists' social media strategies via an NSF-funded Ohio State University collaboration, with findings presented at major sociological conferences. Key research areas include Criminology & Deviance, Corrections & Mass incarceration, Racial Disparity in Criminal Justice, Political Sociology, Research Methodology, Social Movements & Social Activism, and Domestic Violence.
Her publication record (2009-2019) reveals consistent focus on racial disparities in corrections systems, prosecutorial charging practices during crime decline periods, and quantitative analysis of extremist group dynamics, demonstrating methodological expertise in state-level time-series data.
Scientific Awards: None documented in source materials.
Professor Durso advises students in Justice, Law, and Society and Black Studies Minors while directing NSF-funded research on activist social media use. Current collaborations include Northwestern University researchers studying Florida-specific mass incarceration drivers and Ohio State teams analyzing digital mobilization tactics.
She leads active research teams investigating structural determinants of U.S. incarceration patterns and digital strategies within social movement organizations.
