Curriculum Vitae/Résumé

Professional Biography

Hillary Potter received her B.A. in sociology, with an emphasis in criminology, from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991, and her M.A. in criminal justice, with an emphasis in corrections, from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York in 1996. She completed the Ph.D. in sociology from CU-Boulder in 2004, where her dissertation focused on the experiences of battered Black women. Dr. Potter was Assistant Professor of criminal justice and criminology at Metropolitan State College of Denver from 1999 to 2004. In Fall 2005, she became an Assistant Professor of sociology. Prior to beginning her career in higher education, Dr. Potter worked for 10 years in community-based corrections as a case manager and an administrator in residential community corrections centers in Colorado and New York City, as a juvenile diversion counselor for the City and County of Denver, and as a juvenile probation officer for the state-level Denver Juvenile Court. Her current research and teaching interests are feminist and Black feminist criminology, racialized perceptions of crime, the intersections of race, gender, class, and crime, and race and intimate partner violence.