About Us
Gina Hausknecht
John William King Professor of Literature and
Creative Writing Coordinator, Film Studies
B.A., Oberlin College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Phone: 319.399.8417
Email: ghauskne@coe.edu
Dr. Gina Hausknecht teaches early modern British literature, Shakespeare, non-fiction graphic novels, literature of incarceration, and restorative justice. She directs Coe’s Justice Learning Initiative which offers community education about the impacts of the criminal legal system as well as college courses at Anamosa State Penitentiary. She is the co-editor of Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Routledge, 2025). Her ongoing research on the textual history of stage directions in editions of Shakespeare is reflected in the interactive online learning tool All the World's a Stage Direction.
Neal McNabb
Assistant Professor of Social & Criminal Justice, Chair
B.A., 2001; M.A., 2002, University of Central Oklahoma
Ph.D., 2009, University of Oklahoma
Dr. McNabb's research interests include various issues related to law enforcement/policing and the phenomenon of wrongful convictions. He regularly teaches Introduction to Social & Criminal Justice,
Law Enforcement & Corrections, Human Rights & Comparative Justice and Juvenile Delinquency
and the Justice System. Dr. McNabb also teaches a course called Crime in Literature that explores how crime and the criminal justice system have been portrayed in popular literature and other media.
Katie Rodgers
Associate Professor of Sociology
B.A., Coe College
M.A., Rutgers University
Ph.D. University of Oregon
Dr. Rodgers specializes in issues of race, class, and gender inequality, focusing on how these inequalities show up in a variety of social institutions. She has published work on inequality in sport, news media, and higher education. She is also particularly interested in inequalities in the justice system and restorative justice practices. All of her teaching centers issues of power and oppression and includes classes on the family, globalization, sport, race, and sexuality. She also teaches the department’s senior capstone class.
Yenifer Salgado
Yenifer Salgado '26 studies Social and Criminal Justice (SCJ) and Psychology at Coe. For her SCJ major, she has taken correctional systems and law enforcement classes. She is a student assistant for the Justice Learning Initiative program, helping create events such as the annual Reentry Simulation. In one SCJ class, she participated in Exchange for Change, which allows Coe students and women incarcerated in a Florida prison to write to each other about books that they both are reading at the same time for parallel courses. Yenifer wants to help shed light on the obstacles that human beings face after being released from a system that is supposed to help them better themselves.