
Education
Ph.D., George Mason University (2018, Conflict Analysis and Resolution)
M.A., Universidad del Salvador, Argentina, Rotary Peace Fellowship (2005, International Relations, Peace and Conflict)
B.A., Swarthmore College (2000, Religion, Concentration in Peace Studies)
Bio
Rochelle Arms Almengor is Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department of John Jay College specializing in Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice. She received her Ph.D. from The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution in George Mason University, focusing on the use of critical reflective practice as a learning method for conflict resolution practitioners. Prior to this, she served as the Restorative Justice Coordinator of New York Peace Institute where she managed mediation and restorative justice initiatives with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, Juvenile Justice Courts, schools, and community agencies in Brooklyn and Manhattan. She has trained or coached hundreds of individuals in communication skills, mediation and other facilitative interventions. Since 2000, she has worked in the U.S. and abroad in collaborative processes and restorative justice projects, with a variety of groups, including civil society organizations in India, indigenous peoples in Argentina, immigrants and refugees, and homicide offenders and victim survivors in Kentucky. Dr. Arms Almengor has a B.A. in Religion and Peace Studies from Swarthmore College, and an M.A. in International Relations through a Rotary Peace Fellowship at Universidad del Salvador in Argentina. She lives with her multi-generational, multi-cultural family in Brooklyn, NY.
JJC Affiliations
Professional Memberships
Association for Conflict Resolution
Peace and Justice Studies Association
American Sociological Association
National Association for Community and Restorative Justice
Course Taught
Sociology Laboratory in Dispute Resolution Skill Building
Sociology of Conflict and Dispute Resolution
Restorative Justice in the Urban Context
Languages spoken/fluent in
Scholarly Work
Romano, A. & Arms Almengor, R. (2021). It’s deeper than that!: Restorative justice and the challenge of racial reflexivity in white-led schools. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085921998419
Arms Almengor, R. (2020). Women colorizing restorative justice in white-led institutions. In E. Valandra (Ed.), Colorizing restorative justice. St. Paul, Minnesota: Living Justice Press.
Arms, Almengor R. (2018) Reflective practice and mediator learning: A current review. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 36(1), 21-38.
Miller, P., Arms Almengor, R., & Goldberg, J. (2018). Making space for contending moral talk in criminal matters: Criminal court mediation in Brooklyn, New York. Mediation Theory and Practice, 3(1), 1–18.
Honors and Awards
Enhanced Research Award, PSC-CUNY
Traditional B Research Award, PSC-CUNY
Research Summary
My research focuses on conflict resolution practices, restorative justice, and practitioner learning. The unifying thread in most of my scholarship has been a commitment to democratic or participatory methods of studying practice. As a long-time mediator and restorative justice practitioner myself, I regularly work in co-inquiry with research participants.
For more detail about my current research, see:
https://www.rochelle-arms-almengor.com/research
https://nyrrc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/