Leanne Trapedo Sims
| Leanne Trapedo Sims | |
|---|---|
| Born | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 💼 Occupation | Associate Professor[1] |
Leanne Trapedo Sims is an American scholar and social justice activist. She is the Daniel J. Logan Professor of Peace and Justice and Chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.[2] She is the author of Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawaiʻi Women’s Prison Writing (2023).[3]
Background
Trapedo Sims was born in Johannesburg, South Africa,[2] the daughter of geriatrician Dr. Farrol Sims (1937–2020) and Jewish educator Lilian Sims (née Trapedo).[lower-alpha 1][5] The Sims family immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the late 1970s.[6]
Education
Trapedo Sims attended the University of Wisconsin, earning a B.A. in English. She received M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (Creative Writing and Literary Studies), New York University (Performance Studies) and Fordham University (Education).[2]
As a doctoral student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Trapedo Sims undertook feminist ethnographic research at the Women’s Community Correctional Center in Kailua, Hawaiʻi, and taught creative writing classes there. This research is the foundation of her book Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawaiʻi Women’s Prison Writing.[2][7][8] She received her Ph.D. in American Studies in 2017.[2]
Professional career
Trapedo Sims has held faculty positions at Northeastern University (2016–17),[9] Pace University (2017–18),[8] Stockton University (2018–19, where she had the title "activist in residence")[8] and Northern New Mexico College (2020–21).[7]
Since 2021, she has been the Daniel J. Logan Professor of Peace and Justice at Knox College, where she is creating an interdisciplinary program in Peace & Justice Studies.[2] She has also established a prison education program at nearby Hill Correctional Center.[2] It includes Inside-Out classes in which Knox undergraduates study together with incarcerated men within the prison walls.[10]
She is an active member of Illinois Humanities, the Peace and Justice Studies Association, the European Forum for Restorative Justice, the Illinois Coalition for Higher Education in Prison, and the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison.[2]
Awards and honors
- Envisioning Justice grants from Illinois Humanities[11]
- 2023 Bard Prison Initiative Summer Residency[12]
Selected publications
- Captured Words/Free Thoughts: Writing and Art from America's Prisons, Volume 21, Summer 2025 (poetry by inside writers with a preface by Leanne Trapedo Sims)
- Interview, UNESCO Chair of Applied Research for Education in Prison newsletter, May 2024
- Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawaiʻi Women’s Prison Writing, Duke University Press, 2023
- "Reimagining Home: Redemption and Resistance in Hawai‘i Women’s Prison Writing", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46:1, Fall 2020
- "Love Letters: Performative and Biological Families", Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 39:2, 2018
Notes
- ↑ The Trapedo family traces its roots to Lithuania (where their surname was spelled Trapido) and ultimately to pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal.[4]
References
- ↑ Holland, Scott (May 28, 2025). "Knox College Announces its Four Newest Tenured Associate Professors". Galesburg, Ill.: Knox College. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Knox College. "Leanne Trapedo Sims". Galesburg, Ill. Retrieved May 9, 2025.
- ↑ "Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawaiʻi Women's Prison Writing". Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. September 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2025.
- ↑ Trapido, Israel (August 24, 1979). "Trapido Family Book". JewishGen. Retrieved May 10, 2025.
- ↑ "Dr. Farrol Sims". Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. Milwaukee Jewish Federation. September 29, 2020. Retrieved May 9, 2025.
- ↑ Trapedo Sims, Leanne. Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawaiʻi Women's Prison Writing. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 27. Search this book on
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Trapedo Sims, Leanne. Reckoning with Restorative Justice. p. xiv. Search this book on
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Doherty, Chelsea (December 10, 2018). "Activist in Residence Shares Perspectives on Women in Prison". Galloway, N.J.: Stockton University. Retrieved May 10, 2025.
- ↑ Northeastern University. "Past Visiting Scholars". Boston, Mass. Retrieved May 9, 2025.
- ↑ "Peace & Justice Students Learn Inside Galesburg's Correctional Center". Galesburg, Ill.: Knox College. July 10, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2025.
- ↑ Hallett, Mark (September 19, 2022). "Envisioning Justice Grantee Partner Spotlight: Leanne Trapedo Sims". Chicago, Ill.: Illinois Humanities. Retrieved May 10, 2025.
- ↑ "BPI Summer Residency 2023 Cohort". Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Bard Prison Initiative. Retrieved May 10, 2025.
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- 21st-century American women educators
- 21st-century American educators
- Academics from Johannesburg
- Educators from Illinois
- Jewish American academics
- Knox College (Illinois) faculty
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
- South African emigrants to the United States
- American women non-fiction writers
- American social justice activists
- Writers from Illinois
- Northeastern University faculty
- Pace University faculty
- Stockton University faculty
- Fordham University alumni
- New York University alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni
