Crook County

Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve is an award-winning American sociologist specializing in racialized justice in the United States. Gonzalez Van Cleve is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brown University and an affiliated scholar at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, IL. Her research and teaching challenge conventional paradigms in the study of race and racism by drawing on theoretical perspectives rooted in cultural sociology and law.

Gonzalez Van Cleve’s educational and professional backgrounds speak directly to the subject of Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court. Her interest in racialized justice began as an undergraduate student, during her clerkship at the Cook County Courthouse. Gonzalez Van Cleve subsequently earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s and a doctorate degree in sociology from Northwestern University, where she received the Farrel Grant for Public Policy and the Badesch Fellowship from the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, a nonprofit organization specializing in legal advocacy. During the Clinton Administration, and before completing her PhD, Gonzalez Van Cleve worked in the Office of the Chief of Staff at the White House. She is currently co-chair of the Law and Society Association’s Collaborative Research Network on Critical Research on Race and the Law, a member of the Racial Democracy, Crime, and Justice Network, and a Junior Fellow of the Urban

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