Scholars On the Market

This page features CRN members who are on the academic job market this year. 


Justin Lucas Sola (he/him) 

Email: solaj@uci.edu

Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine

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Twitter@justin__sola

 

 

General areas of interest & expertise: parole and probation, reentry, regulations on/treatment of people with criminal records/formerly incarcerated, fines and other monetary sanctions, treatment programs (within or adjacent to CJS, state or private or non-profit), crime policy/penal policy, law enforcement/police/policing, criminal courts (processing and sentencing, both lower and appellate), philosophy of punishment/justifications of punishment, people undergoing punishment (or who have experienced punishment) (e.g., people in prison, on probation, undergoing reentry), volunteers or other non-state actors who work with people experiencing punishment or who have experienced punishment, or staff in non-profit organizations catering to punished people (e.g., penal voluntary sector, medical and educational workers, etc.)

 

Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Punishment (broadly construed) & Economics/Labor/Markets, Punishment (broadly construed) & Culture, Comparative Criminology, Social Theory, Social Justice

 

Methodological expertisestatistics/quantitative methods/econometrics/big data/machine learning/AI, ethnography/ethnographic methods/participant observation, interviews, survey research, archival and document-based research

 

Geographical areas of expertiseUS

 

Biography: Justin Lucas Sola is a PhD candidate at UC Irvine’s Criminology, Law & Society program with an emphasis in Race and Justice. Justin researches gun ownership and how the criminal justice system interacts with inequality. He uses preregistered experiments (forced-choice conjoint and vignette), longitudinal designs (smartphone-delivered surveys), semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and topic modeling. Justin's teaching is focused on research methods and how to critically analyze crime policy. Justin has been recognized with the 2023-24 Haynes Fellowship, the 2022-23 National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research Award, the 2022-23 UC Irvine Public Impact Fellowship, and the 2018-23 Social Ecology Arnie Binder Fellowship.


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Orlaith Rice (she/her)


Email: orlaithbr@hotmail.com


Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Sutherland School of Law, University College 


Education:

BA Criminology, University College Cork; 

MSc Criminology, University College Dublin

 

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General areas of interest & expertise: prisons, jails, and other carceral facilities, crime policy/penal policy, criminal law, penal trends/penal change (generally or across multiple categories), immigration control/enforcement

 

Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Punishment (broadly construed) & Politics, Punishment (broadly construed) & Public Opinion, History of Punishment (broadly construed), Prison Sociology

 

Methodological expertiseinterviews, qualitative methods

 

Geographical areas of expertiseIreland, (Other) Western Europe

 

Biography: Orlaith is a PhD candidate at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin (UCD) and a member of the ERC-funded FIAT project at UCD. She holds a BA in Criminology from University College Cork and an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from UCD. Orlaith has experience teaching core law modules and is an Assistant Editor of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL-AIDC) Blog. Orlaith has been published in The Prison Journal and Criminology & Criminal Justice. 

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Faith English 

Email: fenglish@umass.edu


Currently: Doctoral Candiate, Department of Health Promotion and Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

EducationBA, MPH


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Twitter: @faithaenglish


 

General areas of interest & expertise: prisons, jails, and other carceral facilities, parole and probation, regulations on/treatment of people with criminal records/formerly incarcerated, surveillance, crime policy/penal policy, abolition (broadly construed), restorative justice, other or non-CJ alternatives to punishment/system processing, law enforcement/police/policing, immigration control/enforcement

 

Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Ethnicity, race, and racism, treatment and discrimination of minoritized populations, Critical Race Theory, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Punishment (broadly construed) & Politics, Punishment (broadly construed) & Public Opinion, History of Punishment (broadly construed), Access to Justice, Social Justice

 

Methodological expertisestatistics/quantitative methods/econometrics/big data/machine learning/AI, interviews, qualitative methods, participatory action research

 

Geographical areas of expertiseUS

 

Biography: My research seeks to address the public health crisis of mass incarceration and the overrepresentation of communities of color in the United States criminal justice system. Mass incarceration is caused in part by the criminalization of people who use drugs, including the “war on drugs”, launched in the 1970s. Efforts have been made to reduce incarceration rates, including the decriminalization and legalization of cannabis for adult use. The broad goal of my research is to examine the ways in which cannabis legalization may ameliorate or perpetuate the harms done by the war on drugs, particularly among youth of color.

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Faith M. Deckard 


Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

 

Education:

MA in Sociology, University of Texas at Austin; 

BS in Biology, Trinity University

 

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Twitter@Deckardfaith

 


General areas of interest & expertise: fines and other monetary sanctions, surveillance, abolition (broadly construed), privatization or commodification of punishment/criminal justice, risk calculations (across types of sentencing and punishment), people undergoing punishment (or who have experienced punishment) (e.g., people in prison, on probation, undergoing reentry), staff who carry out punishment or work in state penal agencies (e.g., correctional officers, probation officers, etc.), third-party connectedness; punishment of non-charged/convicted people

 

Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Ethnicity, race, and racism, treatment and discrimination of minoritized populations, Foucault, DuBois, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Punishment (broadly construed) & Economics/Labor/Markets, Social Justice

 

Methodological expertisestatistics/quantitative methods/econometrics/big data/machine learning/AI, ethnography/ethnographic methods/participant observation, interviews, qualitative methods

 

Geographical areas of expertiseUS

 

Biography: Faith M. Deckard is a sociology PhD Candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. As a researcher, her interest lies in understanding how marginalized groups experience, navigate, and respond to social control institutions. Her dissertation examines how families become entangled in carceral surveillance and punishment through bail (legal debt) and bail bonds (financial process). Faith is a NSF, MFP, and NICHD fellow (National Science Foundation, Minority Fellowship Program, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development respectively), and her research has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, the American Society of Criminology, and the American Association of University Women.

Her approach to sociological research and teaching is rooted in the conviction that our lived experience(s) can be a vehicle for producing, or touchstone for understanding, systematic knowledge and converting it into practice. 
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Isabel Arriagada 


Email: isabelarriagada@gmail.com

 

Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota

 

Education:

JD. Universidad de Chile (2012)

MA in Sociology. Universidad Católica de Chile (2015).

MA in Sociology. University of Minnesota (2018)

 

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Twitter@arriagadaisabe

 

 

 

General areas of interest & expertise: criminal law, penal trends/penal change (generally or across multiple categories), privatization or commodification of punishment/criminal justice, philosophy of punishment/justifications of punishment, people undergoing punishment (or who have experienced punishment) (e.g., people in prison, on probation, undergoing reentry), staff who carry out punishment or work in state penal agencies (e.g., correctional officers, probation officers, etc.)

 

Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Punishment (broadly construed) & Economics/Labor/Markets, Prison Sociology, Access to Justice

 

Methodological expertisequalitative methods

 

Geographical areas of expertiseUS, Caribbean and Central and South America

 

Biography: My interdisciplinary graduate training at the UMN is grounded in a critical perspective over law, crime, and justice. Broadly, as a criminal justice and sociolegal scholar I have researched several aspects of the criminal justice system both from a US and an international perspective. My work lies at the intersections of criminological research, the sociology of punishment, and sociolegal scholarship. I am particularly interested in how people interact with and inhabit criminal justice institutions, how criminal justice agents deploy and exert state power, and how social groups develop collective ideas about justice. I’m currently pursuing three distinct agendas under these general themes. 

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Stephen Wulff (He/Him)

Email: wulff039@umn.edu

Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota

  

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General areas of interest & expertise: fines and other monetary sanctions, spatial social control/carceral geography, surveillance, abolition (broadly construed), law enforcement/police/policing, risk calculations (across types of sentencing and punishment), philosophy of punishment/justifications of punishment, people undergoing punishment (or who have experienced punishment) (e.g., people in prison, on probation, undergoing reentry), staff who carry out punishment or work in state penal agencies (e.g., correctional officers, probation officers, etc.)

 

Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Ethnicity, race, and racism, treatment and discrimination of minoritized populations, Critical Race Theory, Foucault, Marxist theory, Bourdieu, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Social Theory, Social Justice

 

Methodological expertise: ethnography/ethnographic methods/participant observation, interviews, qualitative methods, archival and document-based research

 

Geographical areas of expertise: US

 

Biography: I am a PhD candidate in sociology at University of Minnesota and work in the areas of punishment and society, sociology of law, critical criminology, policing, and social movements. My dissertation, "Police Misconduct, Monetary Sanctions, and Insurance Models in the Modern Police Accountability Era," examines the role that insurance and risk management strategies play in regulating police departments and individual officers and reducing misconduct. My dissertation creates two new subareas in the sociology of punishment by: 1) extending the “monetary sanctions” literature to examine the costs stemming from misconduct committed by carceral state actors and institutions like policing; and 2) inverting the classic “new penology” paradigm to analyze modern efforts to manage aggregates of dangerous criminal justice categories (e.g., violent police officers) based on risk profiles and misconduct histories. My sole-authored article recently published in Law & Social Inquiry analyzes the innovative but ultimately unsuccessful 2016 ballot campaign of the Committee for Professional Policing, a police accountability group in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which attempted to make Minneapolis the first city nationwide to require police to carry professional liability insurance. Currently, I am co-authoring a report examining all the financial costs stemming from George Floyd’s murder. My teaching interests include social movements, sociological theory, the criminal legal system, and qualitative methods.

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Sara Gottlieb (she/her) 


Email: sgottlieb@ubalt.edu


CurrentlyClinical Teaching Fellow, Innocence Project Clinic, University of Baltimore School of Law

 

Education:

JD, cum laude, Boston College Law School, 2008 

 

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Twitter@SGottliebEsq



General areas of interest & expertise: crime policy/penal policy, criminal law, case law, abolition (broadly construed), criminal courts (processing and sentencing, both lower and appellate)

 

Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Ethnicity, race, and racism, treatment and discrimination of minoritized populations, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Access to Justice, Social Justice

  

Geographical areas of expertiseUS

 

Biography: I am currently a clinical teaching fellow in the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Baltimore School of Law. I'm interested in clinical teaching, criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence and trial advocacy. I’m thrilled that my job talk paper, “Progressive Façade: How Bail Reforms Expose the Limitations of the Progressive Prosecutor Movement” is forthcoming in the Washington and Lee Law Review. The article takes a deep dive into the specific bail reform policies of four progressive prosecutors and through a critique of these reforms, evaluates whether progressive prosecutors can be the solution to address mass incarceration or systemic racism. You can read it here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4530894.

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Elliot Mamet (he/him) 

Email: emamet@princeton.edu

CurrentlyPostdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

EducationPh.D., Political Science, Duke University, 2022

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Twitter@emamet 

 

General areas of interest & expertise: prisons, jails, and other carceral facilities, crime policy/penal policy, penal trends/penal change (generally or across multiple categories), penal reform(s), philosophy of punishment/justifications of punishment

 

Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: DuBois, Punishment (broadly construed) & Politics, History of Punishment (broadly construed), Social Theory

 

Methodological expertisequalitative methods, archival and document-based research

 

Geographical areas of expertiseUS

 

Biography: J am a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. My research and teaching examine the edges of democratic politics, particularly in the United States. I am interested in the ways democratic boundaries are shaped and reinforced by incarceration and by institutions of empire. My research on these topics have appeared in venues including Political Theory, American Political Thought, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, and The Washington Post. Previously, I served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, working on the legislative staff of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). 


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Caity Curry (they/them)

Email: curry192@umn.edu


Currently: Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, University of Minnesota 

 

Education:

Master of Arts, Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2019. 

Master of Arts, Sociology, University of Arkansas, 2016. 

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Psychology, 2014.


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General areas of interest & expertise: criminal law, penal reform(s), abolition (broadly construed), criminal courts (processing and sentencing, both lower and appellate), staff who carry out punishment or work in state penal agencies (e.g., correctional officers, probation officers, etc.), volunteers or other non-state actors who work with people experiencing punishment or who have experienced punishment, or staff in non-profit organizations catering to punished people (e.g., penal voluntary sector, medical and educational workers, etc.)

 

Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Critical Race Theory, Bourdieu, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Social Justice


Methodological expertise: ethnography/ethnographic methods/participant observation, interviews, qualitative methods, archival and document-based research

  

Geographical areas of expertiseUS

 

Biography: Caity Curry (they/them) is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Caity uses qualitative methods to investigate how the criminal legal system exacerbates and legitimizes racial and class inequities, focusing specifically on how legal professionals and impacted community members experience and resist mass criminalization in their daily lives. 


Their dissertation examines the role of public defenders in criminal justice reform and transformation, using a multi-method case study of Gideon’s Promise (GP), an Atlanta-based public defense organization that trains defenders to resist mass incarceration. Their forthcoming article in Law & Social Inquiry, “Public Defender Contestation and Compliance in Southern Courtrooms,” is based on 42 interviews with GP-trained attorneys in the South. Connecting research on courtroom workgroups and cause lawyering, this paper describes how GP aims to train public defenders to engage in resistance lawyering, using their skills and client relationship-building to obstruct, resist, and transform criminal courts.  

Caity’s other research includes work with Minnesota organizations that seek to dismantle mass criminalization and support people with criminal records including All Square, Minnesota Justice Research Center, and Children of Incarcerated Caregivers. Caity has a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Arkansas and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota. 


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Chiara Packard (she/her)

Email: cpackard@wisc.edu


Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

 


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General areas of interest & expertise: fines and other monetary sanctions, crime policy/penal policy, criminal courts (processing and sentencing, both lower and appellate), philosophy of punishment/justifications of punishment, people undergoing punishment (or who have experienced punishment) (e.g., people in prison, on probation, undergoing reentry)


Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Ethnicity, race, and racism, treatment and discrimination of minoritized populations, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Punishment (broadly construed) & Politics, Social Justice


Methodological expertise: statistics/quantitative methods/econometrics/big data/machine learning/AI, ethnography/ethnographic methods/participant observation, interviews, qualitative methods

  

Geographical areas of expertiseUS

 

Biography: Chiara C. Packard is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research explores the political and social processes that shape punishment, and how punishment, in turn, reproduces inequality. Her work has won several awards and been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Law & Social Inquiry and Violence Against Women. Chiara’s dissertation project specifically draws on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in two midwestern District Attorney’s offices to investigate how prosecutors make decisions about charging, plea-bargaining, and sentencing recommendations. This project has been supported by the American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG) and the Institute for Research on Poverty Dissertation Research Fellowship. 

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Vivian Swayne

Email: gbd874@vols.utk.edu

Currently: Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, University of Tennessee

Education

  • 2024 (anticipated), PhD The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Sociology; Critical Criminology|Women, Gender, and Sexuality|Social Theory;
  • 2020, MA The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology; 
  • 2016, BA The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology

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General areas of interest & expertise: prisons, jails, and other carceral facilities, death penalty, surveillance, security, penal reform(s), abolition (broadly construed), restorative justice, other or non-CJ alternatives to punishment/system processing, law enforcement/police/policing, immigration control/enforcement, international tribunals for war crimes and international crimes/truth and reconciliation commissions/transitional justice, philosophy of punishment/justifications of punishment, representations of punishment in culture/entertainment/news, people undergoing punishment (or who have experienced punishment) (e.g., people in prison, on probation, undergoing reentry), staff who carry out punishment or work in state penal agencies (e.g., correctional officers, probation officers, etc.), volunteers or other non-state actors who work with people experiencing punishment or who have experienced punishment, or staff in non-profit organizations catering to punished people (e.g., penal voluntary sector, medical and educational workers, etc.)


Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Women, gender and sexism, treatment and discrimination of women, Feminist theories, Masculinity/masculinities studies, Ethnicity, race, and racism, treatment and discrimination of minoritized populations, Critical Race Theory, Homophobia and treatment/discrimination against LGBTQ+ populations, Treatment/discrimination of differently abled or disabled or aging populations; disease, death, and punishment, Foucault, DuBois, Marxist theory, Bourdieu, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Punishment (broadly construed) & Politics, Punishment (broadly construed) & Public Opinion, Punishment (broadly construed) & Culture, History of Punishment (broadly construed), Decolonial Criminology/Sociology, Social Theory, Access to Justice, Social Justice


Methodological expertise: ethnography/ethnographic methods/participant observation, interviews, survey research, qualitative methods, participatory action research, archival and document-based research


Geographical areas of expertiseUS (Appalachia)

 

Biography: Vivian Swayne is a fourth year PhD candidate in sociology, concentrating in criminology with certificates in social theory and women, gender and sexuality studies. Her main areas of interest are policing, sexuality, and culture with publications in the Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research and Current Perspectives in Social Theory. She is currently writing her dissertation, which is an analytical tour of murals around the world that both reproduce and refuse cultural reproductions of police power. Swayne’s dissertation is informed by her role as Project Manager for Abolition Now!: Digital Archive, a carefully curated online space and database built for movement artists and cultural organizers featuring original art, study guides, and documentary interviews. Additionally, the California Institute of Integral Studies selected Swayne as a Sexuality Fellow to help write a databank on sexuality discourse across social media. Other research projects central to Swayne’s scholarship include collaborative work investigating police calls for service in the South, community listening projects about police and school safety, and arts based research about Southern queer identity. Swayne currently serves as the Newsletter Editor for the American Sociological Association’s Section on Sex and Gender, a position she has held since 2019. Swayne is certified and experienced teaching in person and online for courses such as Social Problems and Social Justice, Introduction to Sociology, Criminal Justice, Social Inequalities, and Gender in Society. She is a former residential counselor and has experience working with trauma survivors and the criminal legal system.  

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Smadar Ben-Natan (She/Her)

Email: smadarbn@uw.edu


CurrentlyLecturer, Affiliate Faculty

Law, Societies and Justice Department; Jackson School of International Studies; Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

University of Washington, Seattle


EducationPhD. Law, Tel-Aviv University; 

Mst. International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford (Distinction); 

LLB Tal-Aviv University (JD equivalent)


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Twitter: @Smadarbn1


General areas of interest & expertise: prisons, jails, and other carceral facilities, death penalty, spatial social control/carceral geography, security, crime policy/penal policy, penal trends/penal change (generally or across multiple categories), criminal courts (processing and sentencing, both lower and appellate), (other/non-criminal) courts, international tribunals for war crimes and international crimes/truth and reconciliation commissions/transitional justice, people undergoing punishment (or who have experienced punishment) (e.g., people in prison, on probation, undergoing reentry), staff who carry out punishment or work in state penal agencies (e.g., correctional officers, probation officers, etc.)


Specific topics, angels, and theoretical approaches: Ethnicity, race, and racism, treatment and discrimination of minoritized populations, Foucault, Punishment (broadly construed) & Inequality, Punishment (broadly construed) & Politics, Decolonial Criminology/Sociology, Political Sociology, Organizational Theory, Historical Sociology, Social Theory


Methodological expertise: interviews, qualitative methods, archival and document-based research

  

Geographical areas of expertiseUS, Middle East

 

Biography: I am a socio-legal scholar of human rights, criminal justice, international law, and armed conflict. I specialize in punishment and inequality, penal regimes in the context of colonialism and conflict, military law and incarceration in Israel/Palestine, US military commissions, and the legal profession. 


I am a lecturer at the Law, societies and Justice Department and an affiliate faculty in the Jackson School of International Studies, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. My first book manuscript is titled Citizen-Enemies: Military Courts and the Construction of Citizenship in Israel/Palestine. I received a Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar grant for my second book project, The Carceral State in Conflict: Between Reconciliation and Radicalization.

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