Kylie Parrotta
Kylie Parrotta
Associate Professor of Sociology & Criminology
Research Interests
- Social Psychology of Organizational Change
- Identity Work and Stigma Management
- Trauma Informed Education & CSI Effect
- PPE, Safety, Risk, & Danger
- Criminal Sentencing & Reentry
- 21st Century Policing
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Mixed-Methods & Hackathons
Contact Information
- Office: Bldg. 47, Room 13B
- Phone: 805-756-1240
- Email: parrotta@calpoly.edu
About Kylie Parrotta
Dr. Kylie Parrotta earned her doctorate in Sociology from North Carolina State University and she is currently an associate professor in Sociology & Criminology at California Polytechnic State University. Her broad teaching and research interests are inequality (race, class, gender, and sexuality), social psychology, and deviance and criminology. Her research on sentencing disparities, roller derby, welfare-to work program managers, and scholarship on teaching and learning has been published in Advances in Group Processes, Criminal Justice Studies, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Sociological Perspectives, and Teaching Sociology. She is currently working on projects exploring the role of identity in the negotiation of organizational change, on trauma informed education practices, and 21st century policing.
Education
- Ph.D. in Sociology, North Carolina State University
- M.S. in Sociology, North Carolina State University
- B.A. in Psychology, North Carolina State University
Courses Taught
- SOC 110: Comparative Societies
- SOC 302: Criminology
- SOC 310: Self, Organizations & Society
- SOC 311: Gender & Sexuality
- SOC 402: Gender, Crime & Violence
- SOC 412: Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice