Ashley Veronica Reichelmann

• Memorialization
• Racial Threat
• Social Psychology (Modern Identity and Intergroup Relations)
• Race and Ethnic Relations
• Conflict and Violence (Collective Violence and Hate Crimes)
• White Racial Identity

• Ph.D., Northeastern University
• MSc, University of Bristol
• B.A., The College of New Jersey

• Chair of Membership Committee, Section on Social Psychology, ASA (2019-2020)
• Chair of Mentorship Committee, Peace, War and Social Conflict Section, ASA (2019-2020)
• Member, American Sociological Association
• Member, American Society of Criminology
• Member, Society for Women Sociologists
• Member, Southern Criminal Justice Association
• Member, Southern Sociological Society

• Social Psychology Section Graduate Student Investigator Award, American Sociological Association (2016)
• Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Teaching, Northeastern University (2016)
• Provost’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Northeastern University (2017)

Journal Articles

Reichelmann, Ashley V., James E. Hawdon, and John Ryan. Forthcoming. “Threatened Halos of Perception: Residents’ Accuracy of Crime Changes in a Developing Tourist Area.”  Journal of Tourism and Hospitality. 

Reichelmann, Ashley V. 2020. “Collective Threat: Conceptualizing Blumer’s Threat as a Collective Emotion.” Sociological Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12366

Reichelmann, Ashley V. Reichelmann, James Hawdon, Matt Costello, John Ryan, Catherine Blaya, Vincente Llorent, Atte Oksanen, Pekka Räsänen, and Izabela Zych. 2020 (online). “Hate Knows no Boundaries: Content and Exposure to Online Hate in Six Nations.” Deviant Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2020.1722337

Roos, J. Micah, Michael Hughes, and Ashley V. Reichelmann. 2019. “A Puzzle of Racial Attitudes: A Measurement Analysis of Racial Attitudes and Policy Indicators.”  Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 5:1-14.

Levin, Jack, and Ashley Reichelmann. 2015. "From thrill to defensive motivation: The role of group threat in the changing nature of hate-motivated assaults." American Behavioral Scientist 59(12):1546-1561.

Book Chapters

Hunt, Matthew O., and Ashley V. Reichelmann. 2019. “Racial Identity and Racial Attitudes among White Americans.” Pp. 217-238 in Identities in Everyday Life, edited by J. Stets and R. Serpe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Reichelmann, Ashley V. 2018. “When You Are a Racist, Theoretically Speaking: Empirically Demonstrating Blumer's Group Position Theory.” Pp. 31-56 in Sociological Theory, Methods, and Perspectives, edited by J. H. Michalski. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. 

Levin, Jack, and Ashley Reichelmann. 2016. "News aus Newtown? – Berichterstattung US-amerikanischer Massenmedien nach schweren Gewalttaten (The Newtown Massacre: How American Journalists Responded)." Pp. 95-105 in Die mediale Inszenierung von Amok und Terrorismus: Zur medienpsychologischen Wirkung des Journalismus bei exzessiver Gewalt, edited by F.J. Robertz and Robert Kahr. Weisbaden, Germany: Springer Fachmedien. 

English translation: Levin, Jack, and Ashley Reichelmann. 2017. “The Copycat Phenomenon in the Aftermath of the Newtown School Shooting.” AJCS. March 2017.

Reichelmann, Ashley. 2008. “The Layers Within Her: An Ethnographic Study of the Development of a Holocaust Survivor's Voice.” TCNJ Journal of Student Scholarship XI:1-14.

Edited Volumes

Baldwin, Andrea N., Ashley V. Reichelmann, and Anthony Kwame Harrison, eds. 2019. Standpoints: Black Feminist Knowledges. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing. 

• “RAPID: Effects of COVID-19 on Community Solidarity,” #2032452, National Science Foundation ($67,146 with James Hawdon)
• National Science Foundation, RAPID Grant, Memorialization and Community, $49,909, 2018. 
• College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Humanities Summer 2018 Stipend, $4,000, 2018. 
• College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Incentive Grant, $4,500, 2017. 
• Fahs-Beck Scholar, Doctoral Dissertation Grant Program, Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation at The New York Community Trust, $4,400, 2016.
• Graduate Student Researcher Award, Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence, Boston, MA, $2,000, 2016.

April 2020: Antisemitism: A History Spring 2020 Lecture Series, “Hate Speech, Groups, and Crimes: Modern Antisemitism and its Many Forms,” Brown University, Providence, RI (on Zoom)

Mar. 2019: Women’s History Month, “White Fright: Collective Threat as a Racialized Feeling in White Americans,” The College of New Jersey, Lawrenceville, NJ

April 2017: From Ideology to Mobilization, 2016-2017 Yale Genocide Studies Seminar Series "Group Threat and Racial Violence: Exploring Modern-Day Hate Crimes," Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, New Haven, CT

• CRIM 3434: Systems of Justice
• PSVP/SOC 2044: Peace and Violence
• PSVP 4104: Global Society, Violence and Prospects for Peace
• SOC 3204: Social Research Methods

I am currently interested in working with new graduate students. 

Dissertation Committees

• Chair:  Whitney Hayes (2020-Present); Courtney Ross (2020-Present)
• Member: Steve McGlamery (2019-Present); Lisa Yost (2019-2020)

Theses Committees

• Chair: Sara Aftab (2020-Present); Rachel Kidd (2019-Present); Christian Walkup (2020-Present)
• Member: Jonathan Lloyd (2017-2019); Whitney Hayes (2018-2019); Maria Scaptura (2018-2019)