Clinton Nichols

Clinton Nichols is assistant professor in the Sociology & Criminology Department at Dominican University (River Forest, IL USA). His doctoral research in cultural anthropology (Northwestern University) was an ethnographic investigation of squatters’ efforts to earn incomes and secure housing in post-apartheid Windhoek, Namibia. Dr. Nichols was a Fulbright-IIE recipient, and a HistoryMakers 2021 Innovative Pedagogies Fellow. His teaching and research interests focus on housing insecurity, livelihoods, urban colonial and post-apartheid Namibia, policing, and incarceration. Dr. Nichols has volunteered with Prison & Neighborhoods Arts/Education Project, an initiative that delivers undergraduate courses to incarcerated persons at Stateville Correctional Center located near Joliet, IL. Through a grant from the Illinois Secretary of State and CARLI, Dr. Nichols is authoring a textbook (open educational resource) about criminology and criminal justice in Illinois.