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 Criminology. Congrats Cheyenne!
Awards
Three new lab PhDs! Sola, Luo, and Forthun
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 Tar Heels!
Xiaoshuang Iris Luo defended her dissertation “Crime Changes and Spatial Patterns: Examination of Longitudinal Models of Crime across Multiple Cities in the U.S.”, and will now be an Assistant Professor at Akron University in the department of Criminal Justice Studies.
Benjamin Forthun defended his dissertation “Won’t You Be My Neighbor? An Examination of Environmental Context, Resident Neighborhood Spatial Perceptions, and Implications for Aggregate Techniques”, and will now be an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Colorado in the department of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Graduate student Kyle Winnen wins Gil Geis Award
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!
Graduate student Iris Luo wins paper awards!
Congratulations to Iris Xiaoshuang Luo for her paper, “An Empirical Test of Procedural Fairness, Legitimacy and Public Cooperation with the Police in China,” which won two student paper awards! The paper received the 2022 Western Society of Criminology (WSC) Miki Vohryzek-Bolden Student Paper Award. And it also received the 2022 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) International Section Graduate Student Paper Award. Congratulations, Iris!!!
Graduate student Iris Luo wins awards!
ILSSC graduate student Xiaoshuang(Iris) Luob was awarded first prize in the 2021 Jiang Outstanding Student Paper Award, Association of Chinese
Criminology and Criminal Justice in the United States (ACCCJ). She received the award for her paper “An Empirical Test of Procedural Fairness, Legitimacy and Public Cooperation with the Police in China”. Congrats Iris!
Furthermore, Iris also received two more awards. She received the 2021 Spring Student Professional Development Award, Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice (ADPCCJ) for $1,000. And she received the 2021 Long US-China Institute Graduate Student Research Grant, UCI for $1,000. Congrats again, Iris!