Winners of the Joseph F. Donnermeyer New Scholar Award announced

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The Executive of the International Society for the Study of Rural Crime were pleased to announce the inaugural winners of the Joseph F. Donnermeyer New Scholar Award at the AnnualGeneral Meeting in December 2020.

The award is named after and acknowledges the many years of work of our President Joe Donnermeyer – for his pioneering role with rural criminology as a sub-discipline, and for his strong and ongoing support and mentoring for emerging academics.

Each of the nominations received were excellent and the Awards Panel had a very difficult time determining the final winner, and so for 2020 the prize is shared.

 

The winners are:

Dr Kate Farhall of RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, for her rural work and article ‘Towards an integrated theoretical framework for understanding women, work and violence in non-metropolitan contexts’

and

Dr Willem Lombard from the University of the Free State in South Africa for his work and article (with Y.T. Bahta) ‘Economic impact and factors affecting sheep and goat theft in South Africa’

 

We look forward to following and supporting everyone’s rural work and congratulations to Kate and Willem!