Josephine (Jozie) Nummi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Introduction

Jozie Nummi’s teaching and research focus on empowering students and communities to create solutions to 21st Century social problems and inequalities.

I love to go swimming in lakes and enjoy watching Katie Ledecky swim in the Olympics.

Select Publications

Nummi, Jozie and Monica Williams. Forthcoming 2024. “Systemic Inequity and #BlackLivesMatter.” in Handbook of Communication and Prejudice Research, edited by Stephen M Croucher and Elvis Nshom. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Nummi, Jozie and Tiffany Amorette Young. 2023. “Protecting Whom? Serving What?: Police Accountability in Ferguson, Missouri Protests in 2014.” Pp. 73-102 in This Era of Black Activism, edited by Mary Marcel and Kiana Pierre-Louis. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

Nummi, Josephine and Kathryn Henderson. 2017. “Chapter 16: Women’s Leadership in Texas Forest Fires and Recovery: How Gender Roles and Assumptions Empower and Constrain Women and Men Post-Disaster in a Rural Southern Town.” Pp. 173-182 in Responses to Disasters and Climate Change: Understanding Vulnerability and Fostering Resilience, edited by Michele Companion and Miriam S. Chaiken. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.