Congrats to lab member Cheyenne Hodgen, who was the recipient of the 2025 Gil Geis Award from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at UC Irvine. This award recognizes excellence in research by a graduate student. Cheyenne received it for her research publications, including one as lead author and one as co-author published in…Continue Reading Graduate student Cheyenne Hodgen wins Gil Geis Award
Congratulations to lab members Cheyenne Hodgen, Kyle Winnen, and Yuki Wang, all of whom successfully defended their dissertation prospectuses this spring, 2025. Cheyenne’s dissertation project is titled, “Understanding Criminal Opportunity: Environmental Design, Routine Activities, and Temporal Patterns of Crime.” Kyle’s dissertation project is titled, “The Subjective Experience of Inequality: Developing Critical Harm Theory to Examine…Continue Reading Three lab members defend dissertation prospectuses!
Congratulations to lab member Rebecca Tublitz who successfully defended her dissertation on bail reform in Maryland this spring, 2025, and will be graduating in June. Across three studies, Rebecca examines Maryland’s statewide bail reform to evaluate its effects on judicial decision-making and public safety, and to investigate how local court contexts shape pretrial outcomes. In…Continue Reading Congratulations Dr. Tublitz!
Congrats to three of our lab members who successfully defended their dissertations this spring, 2024, and are off to bigger and better things at their new jobs. Justin Sola defended his dissertation “Theory with Consequents”, and will now be an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the sociology department. Go…Continue Reading Three new lab PhDs! Sola, Luo, and Forthun
Congrats to lab member Kyle Winnen, who was the recipient of the 2024 Gil Geis Award from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at UC Irvine. This award recognizes excellence in research by a graduate student. Kyle received it for his three publications this year! Congrats Kyle!…Continue Reading Graduate student Kyle Winnen wins Gil Geis Award