Curriculum Vitae

 

                                                   Jeff Mellow                                                    

                                 Department of Sociology                                    

Bloomfield College

467 Franklin Street

Bloomfield, NJ 07003-3425

(973) 748-9000 ext. 107

fax:  (973) 743-3998        

e-mail: jeff_mellow@bloomfield.edu     

 

Professional Experience

1998-present   Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ.

 

1998-1999       Teaching Associate, The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, State University of New York, Albany, NY.

 

1996-1998       Undergraduate Advisor, School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York, Albany, NY.

 

1994-1996       Teaching Assistant, School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York, Albany, NY, 1994 to 1996.

 

1993-1994       Fellowship Research Assistant, School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York, Albany, NY.

 

1991-1992       News Producer, Law Enforcement Television Network (LETN), Dallas, TX. 

 

Academic Degrees

2001                Ph.D. Criminal Justice, State University of New York, Albany, NY.

Dissertation Title:  The Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to

Measure Ethnicity: Targeted for Legal, Security, Programming and Reporting

Purposes with Prison Populations.

 

1994                M.A., Criminal Justice, State University of New York, Albany, NY.

 

1989                B.A., International Studies, American University, Washington, DC.

 

Publications

Mellow, Jeff and Paul Shane. “Mental Health Issues of Children of the Incarcerated.” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (accepted pending revisions).

 

Mellow, Jeff. 2003. "Fourteenth Amendment," in Mary Bosworth, ed., Encyclopedia of Prisoners and Correctional Facilities (Sage Publications, forthcoming).

 

Mellow, Jeff and Lenny Ward. 2003. “Community Strategies for Successful Reentry.” Perspectives. 27 (4): 26-28.

 

Mellow, Jeff and Paul Shane. 2002. “The Prisoners and their Families Newark Agency Directory.” Rutgers-Newark.

 

Mellow, Jeff. 1996. “Measuring Race: Historical and Contemporary Issues.” The Criminologist.

 21 (2): 6-7.

 

Grants

2004               “Meeting the Information Needs of Parolees: Internet Database Training for NJ State Parole Officers,” Grant to Jeff Mellow and the New Jersey Association on Corrections by the New Jersey State Parole Board, amount: $3,000.

 

2004               “Essex County Discharge Planning and Resource Guide for Counselors and Inmates.” Grant to Jeff Mellow and the New Jersey Institute of Social Justice by the New Jersey Department of Corrections, amount: $ 20,000.

 

2003-2004     “Advocating, Marketing, and Enhancing  NewarkSuccess.org.” Bloomfield College’s Faculty Development Committee, amount: $1,729.

 

2002-2003       “Resources for People Leaving Prison.”Grant to the New Jersey Association on Correction by The Fund for New Jersey, amount: $15,000 (with James Hemm and Margaret Smith).

 

2001-2002       “Coordinating Social and other Service Agencies in the Newark Area.” Grant to the Prisoners an their Families Project by the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, amount: $9,000 (with Paul Shane).

 

2002                Study Leave, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ. Fall 2002.

 

Professional Activity

2002-present    Director of NewarkSuccess.org, an interactive database of community resources for people leaving prison and their families in the Newark, NJ metropolitan area.

           

2002-present    Co-director of Prisoners and their Families Project. A project designed to develop a coordinated, collaborative approach to services for people leaving prison and their families in the Newark, New Jersey area. The project is shared by the Department of Social Work at Rutgers University - Newark and the Department of Sociology at Bloomfield College.

 

2002-present    Advisory Committee Member, Seth Boyden Community Resource Center, Seth            Boyden Housing Project, Newark, NJ. 

2004                                Consultant,  Drafted the text on the needs, issues, and procedures to implement HIV/AIDS outreach to parolees for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HIV Prevention Projects’ Community-Based Organization Grant #04064, Isaiah House, East Orange, NJ, 2004.  

2003                Facilitator and organizer of a working luncheon at Northern State Prison for the discharge planning unit staff and human service agencies to discuss employment issues for those maxing out of prison. Nancy Fishman of The New Jersey Institute of Social Justice co-sponsored the luncheon. Newark, NJ, (October).

 

2002-2003       Participant, “New Jersey Reentry Roundtable.” New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, Trenton, NJ.

 

2002                Co-organizer of the statewide Prisoners and their Families conference, Rutgers-Newark, (June).

 

2002                Provided assistance to the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs on prison issues, Tbilisi, Georgia.

 

Conference Papers

Mellow, Jeff and Paul Shane. “Prisoners and their Children.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA), November 2002, Philadelphia, PA.

 

Mellow, Jeff. “The Complex Reality of Ethnicity in Corrections.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of The American Society of Criminology, November 2000, San Francisco, CA.

 

Mellow, Jeff. “The Development of a Questionnaire to Measure Ethnicity.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November 1997, San Diego, CA.

 

Mellow, Jeff. “Measuring Race: How Stringent are the Standards?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November, 1995, Boston, MA.

 

Mellow, Jeff.  “Weapon Possessions in California Schools.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, March 1995, Boston, MA.

 

Invited Addresses

Mellow, Jeff. “NewarkSuccess.org: Why parole officers need to be online.” Presented to Chairman D’Amico and the New Jersey State Parole Board. Seth Boyden Resource Center, October 2003, Newark, NJ.

 

Mellow, Jeff. “The digital divide in discharge planning: Problems and solutions.”  Presented to programming and social work personnel at Northern State Prison, April 2003, Newark, NJ.

 

Mellow, Jeff. “Prisoner reentry.” Interviewed by reporter Young Soo Yang for NJN’s Workforce Development Project Television Program, March 2003, Trenton, NJ.

 

Mellow, Jeff. “Off the charts: The escalation of incarcerated women.” Presented at the Atlantic County, NJ Human Service Advisory Council’s conference: Empowering the Ex-Offender: Steps Toward Liberation & Equality, June 2002, Atlantic City, NJ.

 

Mellow, Jeff. “Where do we go from here.” Presented at the Issues of Prisoners and their Families Conference, Rutgers-Newark, June 2002. Newark, NJ.

 

Mellow, Jeff. "From Segregation to Sweat Lodges: Ethnic Identity in Prison. Presented at the TLC, Bloomfield College, April 2001. Bloomfield, NJ.

 

Mellow, Jeff. “Diversity in Higher Education.” Presentation at faculty orientation at Sussex County Community College, January 2000. Newton, NJ.

 

Mellow, Jeff. “Imagining the Color of the Future.”  Presented at the AAC&U Racial Legacies Summit II, March 1999, Bloomfield, NJ.

 

Mellow, Jeff. “Defining Race.” Paper presented at the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center - Brown Bag Series, University at Albany, February 1995, Albany, NY.

 

Courses Taught  

SOC 211 - Juvenile Delinquency

SOC 243 - Criminology

SOC 347 - Corrections

SOC 415 - Criminal Justice and Gender

SOC 416 - Race and Crime