2020 Featured Scholars Archive.

2021 Scholars

2019 Scholars

12|20

Daniel Gascón 

Title: Assistant Professor, Sociology
​Current Institution: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Signature Publication:  “The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability​.”
Dr. Gascón on Twitter/Instagram: @profgascon

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11|20

Zahra Shekarhar

Title: Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
​Current Institution: Fayetteville State University
Signature Publication: Out-of-School Suspensions: Counter-Narratives from the Student Perspective.​

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10|20

José Torres

Title: Assistant Professor, Sociology
​Current Institution: Louisiana State University
Signature Publication: “Under-policing and apprehensiveness toward stopping minorities across white and nonwhite officers post-Ferguson.”

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09|20

Janet Garcia-Hallett

Title: Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice and Criminology
​Current Institution: University of Missouri - Kansas City
Signature Publication: Maternal Identities and Narratives of Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Pathways Into and Out of Offending.​​

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08|20

Adrian H. Huerta

Title: Assistant Professor, Pullias Center for Higher Education, Rossier School of Education
​Current Institution: University of Southern California
Signature Publication:​ College Is . . . : Focusing on the College Knowledge of Gang-Associated Latino Young Men

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Dr. Huerta on Twitter

07|20

Shirley Leyro

Title: Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Human Services, and Criminal Justice
​Current Institution: Borough of Manhattan Community College
Signature Publication: Crimmigration, Deportability, and the Social Exclusion of Noncitizen Immigrants;  

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06|20

Jerry Flores

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
​Current Institution: University of Toronto
Signature Publication: Caught Up: Surveillance and Wraparound Incarceration

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05|20

Amy Andrea Martinez

Title: Doctoral Candidate of Criminal Justice
​Current Institution: John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
City University of New York City (CUNY)
Signature Publication: “The city got my back so the city on my Back: Prisoner’s Negation of the States’ Claims of Prisoner’s Humanity” (forthcoming) 

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04|20

Jose Antonin Sanchez

Title: Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology
​Current Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder
Signature Publication: “’It Changed my Life’: Traumatic Loss, Behavioral Health, and Turning Points Among Gang-Involved and Justice-Involved Youth”

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03|20

April D. Fernandes

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
​Current Institution: North Carolina State University
Signature Publication: On the Job or In the Joint: ​Criminal Justice Contact &
​Employment Outcomes

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01|20

Arelys Madero-Hernandez

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice
​Current Institution: Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Signature Publication: ​“Murderers, Rapists, and Bad Hombres”: Deconstructing the Immigration-Crime Myths

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​A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, ‘Yes, someone like me can do this.’
~ Sonia Sotomayor ~