Brianna Suslovic
Biographic Data
| ID | 323504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brianna Suslovic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brianna |
| FAMILY NAME | Suslovic |
| SIGNATURE | SUSLOVIC B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1723-4586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Now, Who Are Your People?” Affective Solidarity as a Feminist Tool for Criminological Scholar-Activism
Affective solidarity is a feminist theory in which solidarity is grounded in emotions, dissonance, and discomfort with injustice rather than a shared identity or a politics of empathy. This article first examines constraints within criminology and the neoliberal university, and then identifies challenges in moving beyond university and community binaries. Affective solidarity is proposed as an antidote to binaries and carceral logics in criminolo…
The Survival Line
Community members seeking alternatives to policing have played a substantive role in promoting safety and responding to harm for decades. The Survival Line was formed as a volunteer-run hotline to respond to community members’ concerns about neighborhood crime or police misconduct. It was established in the summer of 1970 as a mechanism for gathering data while also referring callers to community resources like pro bono attorneys and low-cost soc…
Race/Ethnicity, Neurodivergence, and Odds of Staff Physical Assault in Youth Carceral Settings
Reflections on Boyhood as a Non/Human State
Gap-Bridging or Net-Widening? Gendered Manifestations of Social Control in 1970s Chicagoland Police-Social Work Teams
Hysterical Solidarity
This essay provides a reflection on anger, chronic pain, illness, and identity. Using hysteria as a point of conceptual departure, the author makes use of psychoanalytic theory and the author’s lived experience to identify and expand upon the feminist potential for anger in this political moment. By contributing an embodied perspective to psychoanalytic notions of trauma and hysteria, the author approaches the question of reproductive justice thr…
She Must Be Experimental, Resourceful, and Have Sympathetic Understanding”
In this paper, we theorize toxic white femininities as a performance and persona in school social work. To develop the theory and analytic tool of “toxic white femininities,” we used critical discourse analysis to analyze school social work professional association materials from 1906 to 1936. Our analysis isolated three performances of toxic white femininities in early 1900s school social work: (1) the exclusionary social and material gains of “…
Moral Reconation Therapy
Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) is a manualized treatment commonly used in correctional settings to address perceived moral failing and associated problematic behaviors (e.g., substance use and criminal conduct). Many social work students are introduced to MRT as a treatment modality during field placements in correctional contexts. As a group modality that draws from cognitive-behavioral interventions and 12-step recovery programs, MRT has been t…
“You feed and water a rose bush and eventually it blossoms”
Mitigating racial loneliness as transformative psychoanalytic work
Feminist Social Work and Abortion Support Work
Feminist Social Work and Abortion Support Work
Mitigating racial loneliness as transformative psychoanalytic work
“You feed and water a rose bush and eventually it blossoms”
Hysterical Solidarity
This essay provides a reflection on anger, chronic pain, illness, and identity. Using hysteria as a point of conceptual departure, the author makes use of psychoanalytic theory and the author’s lived experience to identify and expand upon the feminist potential for anger in this political moment. By contributing an embodied perspective to psychoanalytic notions of trauma and hysteria, the author approaches the question of reproductive justice thr…
She Must Be Experimental, Resourceful, and Have Sympathetic Understanding”
In this paper, we theorize toxic white femininities as a performance and persona in school social work. To develop the theory and analytic tool of “toxic white femininities,” we used critical discourse analysis to analyze school social work professional association materials from 1906 to 1936. Our analysis isolated three performances of toxic white femininities in early 1900s school social work: (1) the exclusionary social and material gains of “…
Moral Reconation Therapy
Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) is a manualized treatment commonly used in correctional settings to address perceived moral failing and associated problematic behaviors (e.g., substance use and criminal conduct). Many social work students are introduced to MRT as a treatment modality during field placements in correctional contexts. As a group modality that draws from cognitive-behavioral interventions and 12-step recovery programs, MRT has been t…
The Survival Line
Community members seeking alternatives to policing have played a substantive role in promoting safety and responding to harm for decades. The Survival Line was formed as a volunteer-run hotline to respond to community members’ concerns about neighborhood crime or police misconduct. It was established in the summer of 1970 as a mechanism for gathering data while also referring callers to community resources like pro bono attorneys and low-cost soc…
Race/Ethnicity, Neurodivergence, and Odds of Staff Physical Assault in Youth Carceral Settings
Reflections on Boyhood as a Non/Human State
Gap-Bridging or Net-Widening? Gendered Manifestations of Social Control in 1970s Chicagoland Police-Social Work Teams
Now, Who Are Your People?” Affective Solidarity as a Feminist Tool for Criminological Scholar-Activism
Affective solidarity is a feminist theory in which solidarity is grounded in emotions, dissonance, and discomfort with injustice rather than a shared identity or a politics of empathy. This article first examines constraints within criminology and the neoliberal university, and then identifies challenges in moving beyond university and community binaries. Affective solidarity is proposed as an antidote to binaries and carceral logics in criminolo…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Work (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)