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CURRENT GRADUATE ADVISEES

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Nick Dickens
(Ph.D. co-Advisor)
Dissertation:Computational Explorations of Moral Panics
Areas
: Statistics, Computational Sociology

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Anna Dalcortivo
(Ph.D. Advisor)
Dissertation:Police Abolition as an Everyday Practice at George Floyd Square
Areas
: Law, Punishment, Abolition Movements


FORMER GRADUATE ADVISEES (BY YEAR)

Caity Curry
(2024 Ph.D. Advisor, Hamline U., Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Screaming Into the Void: Public Defenders and Resistance Lawyering
Areas
: Law, Punishment, Race, Social Movements Screaming Into the Void: Public Defenders and Resistance Lawyering

Stephen Wulff
(2024 Ph.D. Advisor, U. of Tennessee, Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Police Misconduct, Monetary Sanctions, and Insurance Models
Areas
: Critical Criminology, Policing, Law, Movements

Amber Powell
(2022 Ph.D. Advisor, U. of Iowa, Assistant Professor)
Dissertation:Sexual Violence in Youth Detention
Areas
: Law, Punishment, Gender, Race

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Ryan Larson
(2022 Ph.D. Advisor, Hamline U., Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Iatrogenic Effects of Punishment
Areas
: Law, Crime & Deviance, Methods & Statistics, Punishment, Opinion

Rob Stewart
(2020 Ph.D. Advisor, U. of Maryland, Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Criminal Records and College Admissions
Areas
: Crime, Punishment, Collateral Consequences

Veronica Horowitz
(2018 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, University at Buffalo, Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Toward a Sociology of Mercy: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Commutation Release in the United States
Areas
: Punishment, Gender, Sentencing

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Jessica Molina Cuthbert
(2020 Ph.D. Advisor, Spelman College, Visiting Professor)

Dissertation
: TBD
Areas
: Criminology, Law, Violence, Race and Ethnicity


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Suzy McElrath
(2020 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, Montana State U., Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: National Genocide Laws
Areas
: Criminology, Law, Knowledge, Transitional Justice, Genocide, Human Rights, Gender

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Sarah Shannon
(2013 Ph.D. Advisor, University of Georgia, Professor)

Dissertation
: Does the Right Hand Know What the Left Hand is Doing? General Assistance Welfare, Crime, and Punishment
Areas
: Law, Crime and Deviance, especially the intersections between punishment, neighborhoods, and public welfare programs.

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Heather McLaughlin
(2013 Ph.D. Advisor, Oklahoma State U., Associate Professor)
Dissertation: Playing Like a Boy: Gender, High School Sport Participation, and Early Career Success
Areas: Gender and Sexuality, Youth and Adolescence, Law, Sexual Harassment and Workplace Inequality, Family, Life Course, Sport and Popular Culture


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Jesse Wozniak
(2012 Ph.D. Advisor, Northumbria U., Associate Professor)
Dissertation
: Iraq and the Centrality of Policing to State Formation
Areas: Critical Criminology, Political Sociology, Policing, Social Control, Social Movements, Marxist Theory

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Shelly Schaefer
(2011 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, Hamline U., Professor)
Dissertation: Blurring the Lines: Blended Sentencing and the Juvenile Justice System
Areas: Juvenile Justice, Punishment, Sentencing

 

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Julie Barrows
(2010 Ph.D. Advisor, Federal Agent)
Dissertation
: Formation, Network Structure, and Effectiveness of Multi-agency Gang Task Forces.
Areas
: Criminal Justice, Gangs, Social Networks


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Mike Vuolo
(2009 Ph.D. Advisor, Ohio State U., Professor)

Dissertation
: Legal Context and Youth Drug Use: A Multilevel Analysis of the European Union
Areas
: Criminology, Sociology of Law, Statistics and Quantitative Methodology


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Heather Hlavka
(2008 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, Marquette U., Professor)
Dissertation: When Disclosure Becomes Discourse: Children’s Meaning Making of Sexual Abuse
Areas: Crime, Law, and Deviance, Gender and Sexuality, Mental Health, Qualitative Methods


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Sara Wakefield
(2007 Ph.D. Advisor, Rutgers University, Professor)

Dissertation: The Consequences of Incarceration for Parents and Children
Areas: Crime, Law, and Deviance, Life Course Studies, Stratification

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Bamidele (Andrew) Odubote
(2006 Ph.D. Advisor, SW Minnesota State, Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Race, Parenting Style, and Delinquency: A Comparative Study of European-American, African American and Nigerian Families
Areas: Criminology, Family, Race and Ethnicity

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Darren Wheelock
(2006 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, Marquette U., Associate Professor)
Dissertation: Felon Jury Exclusion: Racial Threat and Racial Inequality in United States Criminal Courts
Areas:
Criminology, Punishment, Race and Ethnicity

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Michael Massoglia
(2006 Ph.D. Advisor, University of Wisconsin, Professor)
Dissertation: Health Consequences of Crime and Punishment
Areas
: Criminology, Life course, Mental Health, Statistics and Methods

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Jeremy Staff
(2004 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, Pennsylvania State U., Professor)

Dissertation
: Precocious Maturity and the Process of Occupational Attainment
Areas: Life course, Criminology, Work and Occupations

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Melissa Thompson
(2003 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, Portland State U., Associate Professor)
Dissertation: Expectations of Madness: Race, Gender, and Mental Health Evaluations
Areas: Criminology, Gender, Mental Illness, Sociology of Law


Amy Blackstone
(2003 Ph.D. Co-Investigator, U. of Maine, Professor)
Dissertation
: Racing for the Cure and Taking Back the Night: The Social Construction of Gender, Politics, and Public Participation in Women's Activist and Volunteer Work
Areas
: Gender, Movements, Methods, Life Course, Law

 

COMMITTEES AND MENTORING

    • Katie Berry (2024 Ph.D. committee, Epidemiology, U. of Minnesota, Assistant Professor)
    • Natalia Pires De Vasconcelos (University of Georgia, 2024)
    • Chris Levesque (2023 Ph.D. committee, Kenyon U., assistant professor at Kenyon U.)
    • Aimzhan Iztayeva (2023 Ph.D. committee, Graduate Administration, U. of Minnesota)
    • Kayla Huber (Psychology, 2023 Ph.D. committee)
    • Marie Wu (2023 Ph.D. committee)
    • Gillian Slee (2022-23 ASA mentoring, Princeton, Assistant Professor at U. of Georgia)
    • Megan Webb (2022 ASA mentoring, UC-Riverside)
    • J'Mag Karbeah, Ph.D. student (public health, 2019-20 LCC mentor, assistant professor at UMN)
    • Jeanie Santaularia (2021 Ph.D. committee, Epidemiology, assistant prof at U of Washington)
    • Esther Mathews (2021 Ph.D. committee, American University)
    • Tina Barr (Sims) (2019 Ph.D. Committee, Social Work, assistant prof. at UNC- Pembroke)
    • Gui Deng Say (2018 Ph.D. committee, Management)
    • Emre Eftelioglu (2018 Ph.D. committee, Computer Science)
    • Andre Montoya-Barthelemy (2018 MPH committee, Environmental Health Sciences)
    • Ashir KaneRisman (MPP, Public Affairs)
    • Ebony Ruhland (2016 Ph.D. committee, Social Work), Assistant Prof., University of Cincinnati
    • Valerio Baćak (2015 Ph.D. committee, University of Pennsylvania), Assistant Prof., Rutgers
    • Hollie Nyseth Brehm (2014 Ph.D. committee), Assistant Prof., Ohio State University
    • Andrew Johnson (2012 Ph.D. committee chair), post-doc, Princeton University
    • Gina Erickson (2011 Ph.D. committee chair), Assistant Prof., Hamline University
    • Sarah Walker (Ph.D. Advisor)
    • Pao Lee Vue (2009, Ph.D. committee), Associate Prof., St. John Fisher College
    • Jennifer C. Lee (2007 Ph.D. committee), Associate Prof., Indiana University
    • Kristin Carbone-Lopez (2006 Ph.D. committee), Associate Prof., University of Missouri-St. Louis
    • Amy Blackstone (2003 Ph.D. Co-Investigator), Professor, University of Maine
    • Deborah Eckberg (2001 Ph.D. committee), Associate Prof., Metropolitan State University
    • Ann Beutel (1997 Ph.D. committee), Associate Prof., University of Oklahoma
    • Arturo Baiocchi (Ph.D. committee), Assistant Professor, Sacramento State University
    • Jeanette Hussemann (Ph.D. committee chair), Urban Institute
    • Virginia Lane (Ph.D. committee)
    • Cindy Crimmins (Ph.D. committee)
    • Kenneth Wu Hopkins (Ph.D. committee)
    • Lisette Haro (Initial Ph.D. Advisor)
    • Donna Cernohous (M.A. thesis committee)
    • Kelly Shelton (M.A. Thesis committee)
    • Glenna Siekert (M.A. thesis committee)
    • Jim Zaffiro (M.A. thesis committee)
    • Monica Randazzo (M.A. thesis committee)


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