Associate Dean, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Department Chair and Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice
My research in cultural and historical criminology examines images of rural people, places and crime in popular culture. I also explore media portrayals of girls, women, and criminality in the media. My current work combines criminology and archival research to examine a string of arsons that broke out in my hometown of Greenland, NH in the late 1940s.
Hayden, K.E. (2023). Cultural criminology and representations of rural crime. In Harkness, Petersen, Bowden, Pedersen and Donnermeyer (Eds.) The encyclopedia of rural crime. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.
Hayden, K. E. (2021). The rural primitive in American popular culture: All too familiar. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Hayden, K. E. (2020). Society and law. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Three alumni turned educators speak on their love for Merrimack and why they chose to come back.
