Associate Professor
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2010
M.A., Sociology, California State University
M.A., African Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
B.A., Sociology and African Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1999
Crime/Law/Deviance
Criminal Justice
Race/Ethnicity in the U.S. and Africa
Elyshia Aseltine joined the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice
in Fall 2012. She graduated with her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas
at Austin. Her teaching and research focus on crime/law/deviance, criminal justice,
and race/ethnicity in the US and Africa. She teaches courses Race and Crime, Deviant
Behavior, Deviance and Organizations, and Sociology of Law.