PhD Candidates on the Job Market

Matt Barno

1. Dissertation Title: "Understanding Police Reform: A Case Study of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)"

2. Dissertation Committee: Mona Lynch (Chair), Kirk Williams, Richard McCleary

3. Research Interests: Criminal Justice Policy, Program Evaluation, Policing, Organizational Cultures, Criminal Law/Criminal Procedure

4. CV: here

5. Website: sites.uci.edu/mattbarno/

Margaret Goldman

1. Dissertation Title: "Freeing Los Angeles: Un/forgotten Spaces and Abolitionist Education in the Carceral-Education Landscape"

2. Dissertation Committee: Nancy Rodriguez (Chair), Susan Coutin, Sabina Vaught (University of Pittsburgh, Education)

3. Research Interests: Schools and Prisons; Race, Gender and Carcerality; Juvenile Justice; Youth and Family Criminalization; Legal Decision-Making; Anti-Carceral Feminisms; Abolition; Critical Criminology; Community-Based Research

4. CV: here

5. Websitehttps://sites.uci.edu/margaretgoldman/ 

Jordan Grasso

1. Dissertation Title: “Queering Law and Safety: Opportunities for Change and Transformation in Queer Spaces”

2. Dissertation Committee: Ana Muñiz (Chair), Swethaa Ballakrishnen (Law), Elliott Currie, Chris Seeds, and Jeanne Scheper (Gender and Sexuality Studies)

3. Research Interests: queer safety, abolition, policing, police militarization, legal pluralism, critical criminology, securitization, pedagogy and university teaching

4. CV: here

5. Website: jordangrasso.com

 

Xiaoshuang "Iris" Luo

1. Dissertation Title: "Crime Changes and Spatial Patterns: Examination of Longitudinal Models of Crime across multiple Cities in the U.S."

2. Dissertation Committee: John Hipp (Chair), Charis Kubrin, Bryan Sykes, Amanda Geller, Jae Hong Kim (Urban Planning & Public Policy)

3. Research Interests: Neighborhoods and Crime; Spatial Criminology; Social Network Analysis, Policing, Quantitative Research Methods

4. CV: here

5. Websitehttps://xiaoshluo.com/

Ekaterina Moiseeva

1. Dissertation Title: "Cannabis Legalization in California Cities: A Critical View on Socio-Legal Change"

2. Dissertation Committee: Christopher Seeds (chair), Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Mona Lynch


3. Research Interests: Critical Theory, Legalization, Social Change, Economic Sociology, Law and Inequality, Market Regulation, Mixed Methods

4. CV: here

5. Website: https://sites.uci.edu/emoiseeva/

Juan Sandoval

1. Dissertation Title: Outcast Spaces: Exploring Stigma, Identity, and Reintegration in the Southwest

2. Dissertation Committee: Naomi F. Sugie (Chair), Ana L. Muñiz, Sarah E. Lageson (Rutgers-Newark), and Susan Coutin

3. Research Interests: Probation and Parole, Collateral Consequences, Law & Technology, Sociology of Stigma, Rural Sociology

4. CV: here

5. Websitehttps://sites.uci.edu/juansandoval/

Anthony Triola

1. Dissertation Title: "Reasonably Unreasonable": Critically Engaging the Limits of Legal Rationality as it Relates to State Violence

2. Dissertation Committee: Sora Han (Chair), Keramet Reiter, Ana Muñiz

3. Research Interests: Critical Theory, Legal Reasonableness, State Sanctioned Violence, Police Culture, Criminological Theory

4. CVhere

5. Website: https://sites.uci.edu/anthonytriola/