Alex Tepperman

Title: Assistant Professor, Honours Chair
Phone: 204.258.3875
Office: 3C53
Building: Centennial Hall
Email: a.tepperman@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees:

MA University of Rochester (History)

MA University of Toronto (Criminology & Sociolegal Studies)

Certificate in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research - Syracuse University

PhD University of Florida (History)

Biography:

Alex Tepperman’s major research focus is the study of organized, semi-organized, and ad hoc non-compliance and political rebellion within the historical prison. In 2020, he received the Herman Diederiks Prize from the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice (IAHCCJ) for his work in that field.

Courses:

CJ-1002 Introduction to Criminal Justice

CJ-2203 Institutional Corrections

CJ-3400 Seleted Topics: Historical Criminology

Research Interests:

Historical criminology, institutional corrections, prisons in popular culture, ethnography, microhistory, collective memory.