1. Dissertation Title: "Language Access in the Criminal Legal System: The Bureaucratic Interpretation, Organizational Construction, and Administrative Enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964"
2. Dissertation Committee: Mona Lynch (Chair), Bryan L. Sykes (Cornell University), Shauhin Talesh (UCI Law)
3. Research Interests: Law & Society, Access to Justice, Race & Justice, Civil Rights, Language Rights, Inequality/Social Stratification, Criminology, Research Methodology
4. CV: here
5. Website: https://sites.uci.edu/mmballard/
1. Dissertation Title: Unnamed Wounds: Carceral Trauma and Wellness in Reentry
2. Dissertation Committee: Keramet Reiter (Chair), Christopher Seeds, Mona Lynch, Alyson K. Zalta, Roxanne Varzi
3. Research Interests: trauma and incarceration, life and long-term sentences, aging and death in prison, moral injury and moral emotions, trauma-informed care, healing spaces, social and psychological aspects of reentry, ethics of carceral research
4. CV: here
5. Website: https://sites.uci.edu/joannedecaro/
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. Website: https://sites.uci.edu/margaretgoldman/
1. Dissertation Title: "The Legalization of Cannabis in California: A Critical View on Socio-Legal Change"
2. Dissertation Committee: Christopher Seeds (chair), Mona Lynch, Susan Coutin, Swethaa Ballakrishnen
3. Research Interests: Law & Society, Sociology of Law, Criminology, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Professions, Ethnography, Mixed Methods, Critical Studies, Drug Studies, Neoliberalism, Legal Profession, Legal Education
4. CV: here
5. Website: https://sites.uci.edu/emoiseeva/
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. CV: here
5. Website: https://sites.uci.edu/anthonytriola/