{"id":7555,"date":"2019-12-06T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=7555"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:42:03","slug":"gabby-dovale-20-on-combining-criminology-and-criminal-justice-with-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/news\/gabby-dovale-20-on-combining-criminology-and-criminal-justice-with-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabby DoVale ’20 on Combining Criminology and Criminal Justice with History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fear has never been her weakness. Seeking independence while also wanting to keep her education local and cost-effective, Gabby Dovale of East Providence, RI, found her home away from home just half an hour south at URI\u2019s Kingston campus. She began her academic journey studying forensic chemistry, yet that quickly changed when the Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJ) major was introduced the fall of her sophomore year. Dovale found a new sense of purpose after deciding to combine her two seemingly unrelated interests — CCJ and History. <\/span><\/p>\n

While her freshman self didn\u2019t know it at the time, Dovale\u2019s choice to double major in History and CCJ led her to a unique opportunity. With a career in immigration law on her mind, she reached out to Harvard and Brown Universities for research opportunities in summer 2019, the latter replying two weeks before the start of their program. “They look for faculty to pair you with,” Gabby explains. “You do research for nine months, and it all ends with an oral presentation of your research at a conference in Hartford, CT.\u201d <\/span>After a few initial hiccups looking for a good mentoring pairing, Dovale found Dr. Lindsey Jones, a Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in Brown University\u2019s Department of Education. Dr. Jones gave her the chance to combine both of her majors\u2019 expertise, researching the criminalization of women of color and alcohol related arrests during the Jim Crow era in Virginia. Needless to say, Dovale was over the moon. \u201cI saw gold stars,\u201d she says, \u201cI got to work with the criminal justice side <\/span>and<\/span><\/i> the history side of things.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Over the summer, Dovale read over 800 grainy primary crime records from Virginia dating from 1916-1924. \u201cI was able to extract and analyze all of the data three days before the conference,\u201d she explains, \u201cI compared black women to white women on both the state and federal level, and I had everything all formulated and ready to present.\u201d After keeping her nose to the grindstone, she made it through the presentation in Hartford, stating, \u201cI didn\u2019t know it at the moment, but everyone said that if I loved the program, then getting a PhD was for me. I\u2019m super grateful for the program and Dr. Jones. Now I know what I want to do post-undergrad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As for her future plans, Dovale hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in criminal justice and go on to teach at the collegiate level after her May 2020 commencement with double major in in History and Criminology and Criminal Justice. \u201cFrom my undergrad experience, I\u2019ve been able to observe what works with professors\u2019 teaching styles and what doesn\u2019t,\u201d she says. \u201cIf I don\u2019t want to go on to a PhD program, then I want to do data analysis for the FBI for predictive policing, looking at data and analyzing it. But teaching is still the end goal.\u201d Dovale has come a long way from her first steps on Kingston\u2019s grounds, and, to those afraid to take those steps, she has three words of advice. \u201cDon\u2019t be scared,\u201d she encourages. \u201cMy biggest problem was stressing, and I know that professors can be intimidating. I can understand being a scared freshman but networking is important. Don\u2019t let that fear get to you; you have to advocate for yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

~Written by Chase Hoffman, Writing & Rhetoric and Anthropology Double Major, URI Class of 2021<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gabby DoVale ’20 was admitted to the Leadership Alliance Summer Research Program through Brown University this past summer. Combining her interests in Criminology and Criminal Justice and History, she explored differences in alcohol-related arrests for white women and black women in the years around prohibition in Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,76],"class_list":["post-7555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-criminology-and-criminal-justice","tag-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7600,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555\/revisions\/7600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}