Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
About
Patrick Gillham is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. He earned a B.A. in Sociology at Eastern College and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Gillham taught at the University of Alaska Anchorage at the University of Idaho prior to coming to Western in 2015.
Dr. Gillham seeks to understand the sources of violence in society, variants of social control applied by the state, and collective resistance to violence and repression. He is currently engaged in two research projects. The first explores changes in the policing of protest in the western democracies and activist responses to these changes. The second analyzes the impact of and response to newly implemented laws in states that allow concealed weapons to be carried on public universities.
Professor Gillham enjoys incorporating his research into the classroom and providing students the opportunity to work with him on research projects. He teaches courses in social theory, inequalities in justice, policing, violence and society, social movements, globalization, and social change. He integrates an international perspective into many courses in order to address the complexity and inequality evident in our interconnected and globally stratified world.
Contact Information
Western Washington University
Sociology Department Arntzen Hall 502
516 High Street, MS-9081 Bellingham, WA 98225
Office Phone: 360.650.3006
Sociology Department Arntzen Hall 502
516 High Street, MS-9081 Bellingham, WA 98225
Office Phone: 360.650.3006
Related documents
Research Interests
- Dissent, Law and Social Movements
- Policing and Democracy
- Social Control and Criminal Justice
- Violence and Society
- Inequalities in Justice
- Social Theory
- Organizations and Coalitions
- Globalization and Social Change
Disciplines
- Sociology
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Inter-disciplinary conservative management of bilateral non-united lumbar pars defects in a junior elite golfer
Brearley, S. L., Buckley, O., Gillham, P., Clements, B. & Coughlan, D., 2021, In: International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy. 16, 1, p. 236-247 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Mobilizing Effects of Economic Threats and Resources on the Formation of Local Occupy Wall Street Protest Groups in 2011
Gillham, P. F., Lindstedt, N. C., Edwards, B. & Johnson, E. W., 2019, In: Social Perspectives. 62, 4Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Changes in the Policing of Civil Disorders Since the Kerner Report: The Police Response to Ferguson, August 2014, and Some Implications for the Twenty-First Century
Gillham, P. F. & Marx, G. T., Sep 1 2018, In: Sociology. 4, 6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Collective Security, Fear of Crime, and Support for Concealed Firearms on a University Campus in the Western United States
Gillham, P. F., De Angelis, J. & Benz, T. A., Feb 14 2017, In: Criminal Justice Review. 42, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Aspects of the ‘new penology’ in the police response to major political protests in the United States, 1999–2000
Noakes, J. & Gillham, P. F., Jan 1 2016, The Policing of Transnational Protest. Taylor and Francis, p. 97-115 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Press/Media
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How was a violent mob able to breach the U.S. Capitol? Activists see double standard in police response
1/12/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research