Dr. Brittany P. Battle is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department and Affiliate Faculty in the African American Studies Program at Wake Forest University. She is also a recent Ford Postdoctoral Fellow and Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellow with the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an ethnographer, her research interests include carceral logics, social and family policy, courts, abolition and social justice, and culture and cognition. She teaches courses on social justice in the social sciences, (re)imagining the criminal legal system and transformative justice, and courts & criminal procedure. In addition, she is a grassroots organizer and Co-Founder/Co-Director of Triad Abolition Project with extensive experience working with organizations and agencies to pursue liberation. Her work has been recognized with the Eastern Sociological Society's 2022 Public Sociology Award, Sociologists for Women in Society 2021 Feminist Activism Award, and the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice 2020 Praxis Award. 

Dr. Battle's scholarship has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Institute for Research on Poverty, Ford Foundation, American Sociological Association, and Sociologists for Women in Society. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets, including Gender & Society, Journal of Marriage and Family, Theoretical Criminology, Journal of Family Theory and Review, and Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology.

Dr. Battle completed a PhD in Sociology at Rutgers University - New Brunswick in March 2019. She earned an MA in African American Studies from Temple University and a BA in Sociology (Law & Society concentration), Women's Studies, and Black American Studies from the University of Delaware.

Check out Dr. Battle's CV for more on her research and scholarship.