Cynthia Louise Banks, Papua New Guinean criminologist, educator. Recipient Overseas Research Students award, Commonwealth, England, 1994-1997; grantee Simon Fraser University fellowship, 1988; Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Canada fellowship, 1995-1997, Canada International Development Agency scholarship, 1988-1989, Simon Fraser University Open scholarship, Canada, 1979.
Education
Bachelor in Criminology, School Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, 1980. Master of Arts in Criminology, School Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, 1990. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, England, 1997.
Career
Probation officer Yukon Probation & Parole Service, Whitehorse, Canada, 1980—1983. Probation advisor Proportional navigation guidance Probation & Parole Service Department Justice, Goroka, Papua New Guinea, 1985—1986, probation advisor and training officer Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1987—1993. Research fellow & head of png criminology studies Papua New Guinea National Research Institute, Papua New Guinea, 1997.
Assistant professor University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1998—1999. Professor of criminology & criminal justice Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, since 1999. Juvenile justice & gender specialist Canadian International Development Agency, Legal Reform Project, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2002—2005.
Senior policy advisor INL, Department of State, Baghdad, Iraq, 2005—2005. Juvenile justice specialist United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, Juba, Sudan, 2007.
Achievements
Membership
Facilitator and organizer, creative writing group Fairbanks Youth Facility, Alaska, 1998—1999, Youth Detention Center, Flagstaff, Arizona, 2000—2001. Volunteer creative writing class Coconino County Jail, 2001—2004. Board member Coconino Coalition outh & Children, 2002—2003.
Interests
Travel, photography.
Connections
Daughter of Franz Banks and Margaret Rose Sortberg, Hans Sortberg (Stepfather). Married Denis William James Baker.