Richard Rosenfeld
Richard Rosenfeld was an American criminologist and former Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Early life and education
Richard Rosenfeld was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 20, 1948. He received his B.A. in 1972 and his Ph.D. in sociology in 1984, both from the University of Oregon.Career
After serving as a postdoctoral research fellow in criminology at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Urban and Public Affairs, he worked as an assistant professor of sociology at Skidmore College. In 1989, he joined the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the UMSL as an assistant professor and research fellow in the Center for Metropolitan Studies. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1992 as well as to full professor in 1997. He served as department chair from 2001-2004, as a visiting professor in the CUNY Graduate Center of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the fall of 2008, the criminologist in residence for the City of St. Louis Public Safety Department and Metropolitan Police Department, as well as a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Criminology at Hewbrew University in 2016. In 2007, he was appointed Curators' Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the UMSL. He was also recognized as a Founders Professor and Thomas Jefferson Professor . During his retirement, he was a Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the UMSL.Rosenfeld served as executive counselor of the American Society of Criminology from 2001 to 2003 and president from 2009 to 2010. He served as associate editor of the journal Criminology and on the Editorial Board of several major journals.