Margaret A. Zahn

Margaret A. Zahn is an American sociologist and criminologist who held posts at several universities and later led a college at North Carolina State University. She received her doctorate in sociology from the Ohio State University in 1969 and began her career at Temple University, where she taught in the sociology department until 1987. She then chaired the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University, and from 1990 to 1995 she chaired the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and served as associate dean at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. At North Carolina State University she was dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1995 to 2001 and retired in 2017 as professor emerita. Her research concerns violence, girls delinquency and homicide, and her publications include The Delinquent Girl and a 1987 study of stranger homicides in nine American cities. She was president of the American Society of Criminology in 1997 and received its Herbert Bloch Award.