​LC Scholars on the job market.

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Gabriel Alvarez
Doctoral Candidate of Criminology, Law and Society
California State University, Fullerton CA

Gabriel Alvarez is a Lecturer in Criminal Justice at California State University, Fullerton. He is also a doctoral student in Criminology, Law and Society and a concurrent law student at the University of California, Irvine. His teaching and research interests span domestic violence, psychology and law, family demography, and health and developmental criminology, with a broader focus on understanding how individual, family, and social experiences shape involvement with crime, victimization, and the legal system.

​Gabriel’s research has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, and the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. Through his teaching, research, and legal education, he is especially interested in connecting criminological scholarship with questions relevant to policy, law, and practice.

Gabriel earned an M.A. in Social Ecology, with a concentration in Psychology and Law, and an M.A. in Demographic and Social Analysis from the University of California, Irvine. He also earned an M.S. in Criminology and Criminal Justice, a Master of Public Administration, and a Graduate Certificate in Domestic Violence and Evidence-Based Practice from Arizona State University. He received a B.A. in Psychology and a B.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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Enrique Alan Olivares-Pelayo
Doctoral Candidate Geography, Development, and Environment
University of Arizona

Enrique Alan Olivares-Pelayo is a PhD candidate and University Fellow in the School of Geography, Development and Environment at the University of Arizona. A formerly incarcerated scholar of race and punishment, his work sits at the intersection of spatial theory, critical criminology, and the sociology of race and ethnicity. His dissertation, Running Raza: An Ethnography from Inside Arizona's Prisons, is supported by a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Emerging Scholar award for research on violence. Utilizing analytic autoethnography to interrogate the four years he spent incarcerated within the Arizona prison system, Enrique foregrounds the spatially contingent nature of the production race within Arizona prisons, complicating the concept of race as a durable identity category or fixed variable within criminological inquiry. His broader research examines race, punishment, incarceration, prisoner social organization, and carceral governance.

Enrique's peer-reviewed scholarship spans criminology and human geography, with published work in Punishment & Society, Antipode, Geoforum, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Theoretical Criminology, Journal of the Southwest, Human Geography, Progress in Human Geography, and Geography Compass. This body of scholarship has received support from the University of Arizona Graduate College, the Mellon Fronteridades Center for Creative Inquiry, and the University of Arizona Hispanic Alumni Association.

As a former Ronald E. McNair Achievement Program scholar, Enrique understands the importance of mentorship in fostering the academic ambitions of undergraduates from historically marginalized and underrepresented communities within the academy. He is committed to expanding access to higher education for formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted people who seek their rightful place within the academy, as well as providing educational opportunities for people who are currently incarcerated.

​Enrique is on the 2026–27 academic job market, seeking tenure-track positions in criminology, geography, sociology, and interdisciplinary programs where he can contribute to research and teaching on race, punishment, incarceration, and carceral studies.

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