Danielle Dirks

Danielle Dirks, PhD is a sociologist, professor, and author. Her research and teaching interests are concerned with fundamental questions about justice and inequality in society.

She is the author of Confronting Campus Rape: Legal Landscapes, New Media, and Networked Activism (Routledge, 2015) and co-author of How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment (Routledge, 2011). She is currently working on Punishment in the Age of Google: The Mark of a Digital Criminal Record.

Her work has been featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, New York Magazine, Huffington Post, Marie Claire, MSNBC, Bloomberg, Gawker, Ms. Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education, and a handful of feature-length documentaries, including The Hunting Ground. She has been a guest on Al Jazeera, National Public Radio, TakePart Live, and many other outlets.