 Fran Buntman
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Largely through a focus on criminal justice in general and punishment in particular, Fran Buntman’s teaching, research, and writing seek to integrate and facilitate dialogue between and among theory and practice, scholarly contribution and civic involvement, global and local realities, and sociology and other disciplines. Professor Buntman’s primary teaching and research interests are prisons and other institutions of punishment and ‘correction’. These institutions at once hide and emphasize key elements of societies’ organization, power structures, and value systems, facilitating greater understanding of the operations of law, power, resistance, race, and punishment, among other realities. Fran Buntman has professional engagements in a variety of issues and approaches, including mentoring students past and present, academic contributions to public life, race, South Africa, representation, Jewish communal life, and promoting equality and justice.
Selected Publications
Books
2003. Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid. Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles
Forthcoming March 2010. "'Old Synagogue' and Apartheid Court: Constructing a South African Heritage Site." South African Historical Journal 62(1). With Barbara Buntman.
2009. "Prison and Democracy: Lessons Learned, and Not Learned, from 1989 to 2009." International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 22(3): 401-418. http://springerlink.com/content/g124870466n03351/
2003. "Policing in a Diverse and Multi-cultural Society: The South African case." Special Issue of Police and Society [Israel] in cooperation with the National Institute of Justice [US], April 7: 199-231. (With Rika Snyman.)
2001. "Race, Reputation, and the Supreme Court: Valuing Blackness and Whiteness." University of Miami Law Review 56: 1-24.
2000. "The Role of Political Imprisonment in Developing and Enhancing Political Leadership: A Comparative Study of South Africa's and Taiwan's Democratization." Journal of Asian and African Studies 35, no. 1: 43-66. (With Tong-yi Huang.) Also reprinted in Taiwan in Perspective, Wei-chin Lee ed. Leiden: The Netherlands: Brill Publishers.
1998. "Categorical and Strategic Resistance and the Making of Political Prisoner Identity in Apartheid's Robben Island Prison." Social Identities 4, no. 3: 417-440. Also reprinted in Social Identities in the New South Africa: After Apartheid, ed. Abebe Zegeye. Ashgate.
Newspaper Articles/Opinion and Analysis
2009, August 21-28. “Beware the trend of ‘creeping vilification.’” South African Jewish Report. http://www.sajewishreport.co.za/pdf/2009/aug/21-august-2009.pdf (p. 11)
2009, August 15-16. “Zuma’s Island-style Studies.” The Weekender [South Africa].
2002, April 21. “Jews must fight Israeli atrocities.” The Baltimore Sun.
Current Projects
1. Challenging Mass Imprisonment: Policy Continuity and Change from Grassroots to Governance. (Policy Research Scholar, 2009-2010, GWU Institute for Public Policy.)
2. Terrorism, political crime, and prison.
3. Education, Urban Inequality, and the Children of Incarcerated Parents. (Urban Inequality Excellence award, Spring 2010.)
4. Therapeutic jurisprudence and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (For Victim participation in justice and therapeutic jurisprudence: comparative perspectives.)
5. Graffiti and resistance (with Max Gross).
6. 'Ten thousand victims, no villain’: Truth commissions and other transitional justice mechanisms for Taiwan.
Courses Taught
SOC 003: Introduction to Criminal Justice (undergraduate)
SOC 145: Introduction to Criminal Law (undergraduate)
SOC 189: Special Topics in Criminal Justice (undergraduate)
SOC 801: Prisons and Punishment: International Fact, Film, and Fiction (undergraduate)
CPS 101: The Criminal Justice System (undergraduate)
SOC 257: Gender and Criminal Justice
SOC 262: Corrections
Contact Information
fbuntman@gwu.edu
202-994-7465
Phillips 409G
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