Dr. Kiesha Warren-Gordon is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice/Criminology and the director of the African American studies program at Ball State University where she also serves as an affiliate faculty member in the Gender and Women’s Studies program. She is also an adjunct professor for Galen University-Belize.
Her substantive areas include violence against women and critical community engagement. She is the 2021 recipient of the Ball State Community-Engaged Faculty member of the year. She is the recipient of the 2023 Gerald Bepko Community Engagement Grant Award (Bepko Award). Given by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE), the Bepko Award honors a faculty member at an Indiana public or private institution who embodies the concept of community engagement.
Dr. Warren-Gordon has given lectures, keynote addresses, and workshops on best practices of community engagement nationally and internationally. She currently is finalizing her first book, Because Religion Said So: Religious Practices and Intimate Partner Violence (Peter Lang) and working on her second Fix Your Face: The Policing of Black Women’s Minds, Bodies, and Souls (University of Kentucky Press).
