PhD Student Profiles

• Constitutional law
• Criminal law
• Racial/gender disparities in the criminal justice system
• Decision-making in courtroom actors

Kimberly Bernstein CV

• Decision making
• Media and public perception
• Public opinion on crime and criminal justice

Zachariah Biggers CV

• Comparative criminology
• Decision making 
• Violence and suicide

Lichen Chu CV

• Local legal culture
• Rural justice
• Indigent defense
• Law and society
• Qualitative methods

Alyssa Clark CV

• Inequality
• Corporate fraud
• Urban design

Justin Clayton 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

Guillermo Escano CV

• Offender decision making and plea bargaining
• Wrongful conviction
• Cross-national suicide and homicide

Jingyi Fei CV

• Evaluating evidence based practices for youth
• Childhood adversity
• Quantitative methods

Alysha Gagnon CV

• Offender decision-making 
• Morality and criminal offending
• Criminological theory
• Survey research methods

Shaina Herman CV

• Queer criminology
• Homicide/Parricide
• Violence
• Offender decision making
• Quantitative methods

James Hubbell CV

• Mass incarceration
• Criminal justice policy
• Public opinion on crime and criminal justice
• Courts and sentencing
• Punishment, corrections, & reentry

Stefan Ivanov CV

• Prisoner reentry 
• Ethnographic & qualitative methods 
• Prison education

Hilary Jackl CV

• Demographic understanding of crime rates
• Algorithms in criminal justice
• Comparative criminology

Byunggu Kang CV

• Offender decision making
• Criminological theory
• Quantitative methods

Matthew Kijowski CV

• Criminology
• Sociology
• Drug use
• Substance use disorder
• Addiction
• Life-course perspective

Benjamin Kuettel CV

• School shootings 
• Homicide research 
• Decision making 
• Courts/Wrongful conviction

Stefana LoTempio CV

• Female offending and incarceration
• Mental illness and incarceration

Colleen Mair CV

• Juvenile justice
• Sentencing
• Incarcerated individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorder (SUD)
• Policy relevant research

Victoria Nelson CV

• Race, class, and crime
• Desistance
• Quantitative methods
• Measurement issues

Rachel Novick CV

• Identity and inequality
• Youth justice
• Violent crime
• System disparities
• Criminal and youth justice policy

Brian Rainey CV

• Sex work
• Inequality
• Foster care
• Juvenile justice

• Public opinion of crime and criminal treatment
• Media portrayals of crime
• Social psychology

Nathaniel Schutten CV

• Social threat
• Public opinion of crime 
• Marijuana legalization

Andrew Thompson CV

• Drug policy
• Mass incarceration
• Inequality

Caitlin Udas CV

• Dehumanization theory
• Disgust
• Genocide
• Human trafficking
• Social psychology

Katherine Wahrer CV

• Wrongful convictions/miscarriages of justice
• Public policy
• Criminal law
• Jury decision making
• Moot court

Jennifer Weintraub CV

• Gender & Violence
• Feminist Criminology
• Victimization Risks
• Comparative Criminology
• Migration & Crime

Megan Mae Willows 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

Haemi Won CV

• Law
• Criminal justice
• Death penalty
• Law and policy
• Wrongful conviction
• Penology

Sishi Wu CV

• Cross-national homicide and suicide studies
• GIS mapping and research
• Green criminology

William Zakrzewski, Jr. CV