PhD Student Profiles | University at Albany

	Megan Alsleben -- CV Social structure & cultural context in violent crime trends Comparative criminology Feminist criminology theory Conceptualizing & measuring social inequalities
	Kimberly Bernstein -- CV Constitutional law Criminal law Racial/gender disparities in the criminal justice system Decision-making in courtroom actors
	Zachariah Biggers -- CV Decision making Media and public perception Public opinion on crime and criminal justice
	Lichen Chu -- CV Comparative criminology Decision making Violence and suicide
	Jeeyoung Chung
	Alyssa Clark -- CV Local legal culture Rural justice Indigent defense Law and society Qualitative methods
	Justin Clayton -- CV Inequality White collar crime Comparative criminology
	Maureen Darby
	Guillermo Escano -- CV Homicide trend in Latin America Interrupted time-series analysis Intersectionality of criminology & public health Drug trafficking Organized criminal groups Homicide spatial analysis Anti-crime strategies Urban sociology
	Jingyi Fei -- CV Offender decision making and plea bargaining Wrongful conviction Cross-national suicide and homicide
	Alysha Gagnon -- CV Evaluating evidence based practices for youth Childhood adversity Quantitative methods
	Yichao Gao
	Shaina Herman -- CV Offender decision-making Morality and criminal offending Criminological theory Survey research methods
	James Hubbell - CV Queer criminology Homicide/Parricide Violence Offender decision making Quantitative methods
	Stefan Ivanov -- CV Mass incarceration Criminal justice policy Public opinion on crime and criminal justice Courts and sentencing Punishment, corrections, & reentry
	Hilary Jackl -- CV Prisoner reentry Ethnographic & qualitative methods Prison education
	Hyun Ju Jeong
	Byunggu Kang -- CV Demographic understanding of crime rates Algorithms in criminal justice Comparative criminology
	Matthew Kijowski -- CV Offender decision making Criminological theory Quantitative methods
	Benjamin Kuettel -- CV Criminology Sociology Drug use Substance use disorder Addiction Life-course perspective
	Stefana LoTempio -- CV School shootings Homicide research Decision making Courts/Wrongful conviction
	Colleen Mair -- CV Female offending and incarceration Mental illness and incarceration
	Loralys McDaniel
	Jacob Montgomery
	Victoria Nelson -- CV Juvenile justice Sentencing Incarcerated individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorder (SUD) Policy relevant research
	Rachel Novick -- CV Race, class, and crime Desistance Quantitative methods Measurement issues
	Brian Rainey -- CV Youth violence prevention Violent crime Neighborhoods and crime Juvenile justice Criminal justice policy
	Preston Roberts
	Kendall Robinson -- CV Sex work Inequality Foster care Juvenile justice
	Nathaniel Schutten -- CV Public opinion of crime and criminal treatment Media portrayals of crime Social psychology
	Andrew Thompson -- CV Social threat Public opinion of crime Marijuana legalization
	Caitlin Udas -- CV Drug policy Mass incarceration Inequality
	Katherine Wahrer -- CV Dehumanization theory Disgust Genocide Human trafficking Social psychology
	Jennifer Weintraub -- CV Wrongful convictions/miscarriages of justice Public policy Criminal law Jury decision making Moot court
	Haemi Won -- CV Criminal justice reform policy Police innovation Police-citizen relations Public opinion toward criminal justice system Governance and accountability Gender and decision-making Juvenile justice Women in policing
	Sishi Wu -- CV Law Criminal justice Death penalty Law and policy Wrongful conviction Penology
	William Zakrzewski, Jr. -- CV Cross-national homicide and suicide studies GIS mapping and research Green criminology