We’re all super proud of lab member Navi Kaur, who successfully defended her dissertation and received her Ph.D. in 2023 from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society. She will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at San Francisco State University. Navi’s research critically reframes individualized notions of violence and works toward a structural analysis that locates the violence produced by disinvestment and antiblackness. Bridging the fields of criminology, critical geographies, and sociolegal studies, her work complicates literature on neighborhoods and crime by interrogating how organized abandonment and organized state violence further marginalize racialized people through the reformulation of the shadow state and carceral state.. In her time at ILSSC she has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the prestigious Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, a Bonnie Reiss Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow, and the UC Irvine Chancellor’s Club Fellowship. Congrats Navi! See all of our lab alumni here: https://ilssc.soceco.uci.edu/lab-members/#gradalum1