Renee Shelby (PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology) is jointly appointed in the Sociology Department and Legal Studies Program. She has research and teaching interests in feminist science studies, law and inequality, and critical data studies. 

Her current project, “Designing Justice: Sexual Violence, Technology, and Citizen-Activism” examines the potentials and limits of technology as a mediator of racial and gender justice. “Designing Justice” uncovers how dominant cultural ideas about race, gender, and sexuality shape the design and use of anti-violence technologies that reproduce conditions of inequity for survivors on the social and legal margins. 

Renee’s work appears in Feminist Media Studies, Theoretical Criminology, and Engaging Science and Technology Studies among others.

Courses Taught

• Legal_St 376 Sexuality, Technoscience, and the Law (combined with GNDR_ST and SOCIOL)
• Legal_St 376 Gender-Based Violence (combined with GNDR_ST and SOCIOL)

Selected Publications

• “Value-Responsible Design and Sexual Violence Interventions: Engaging Values in the Criminological Imagination.” In K. Henne & R. Shah (Eds.) The Handbook on Public Criminologies (2020): 286-298.
• “Techno-Physical Feminism: Anti-Rape Technology, Gender, and Corporeal Surveillance,” Feminist Media Studies (2019). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2019.1662823?scroll=top&needAccess=true 
• “‘I Incite This Meeting to Rebellion:’ Sexual Violence, Law Enforcement, and the Radical Feminism of the 1909 Board Game Suffragetto,” ROMChip: Journal of Game Histories (2019). https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/46 
• “Whose Rape Kit? Stabilizing the Vitullo Kit Through Positivist Criminology and Protocol Feminism,” Theoretical Criminology (2018). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362480618819805