Here are students of mine whose dissertations I guided. They are now all on to bigger and better things! Super proud of them all.
| Xiaoshuang Iris Luo received her Ph.D. from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society in 2024. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at Akron University. Her research interests include neighborhoods and crime, crime mapping and spatial analysis, and quantitative methods. Website: https://xiaoshluo.com/. |
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| Navi Kaur received her Ph.D. in 2023 in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at the California State University at San Francisco. Bridging the fields of criminology, critical geographies, and sociolegal studies, her work complicates literature on neighborhoods and crime by interrogating how organized abandonment and organized state violence further marginalize racialized people through the reformulation of the shadow state and carceral state. Website: https://cj.sfsu.edu/people/navi-kaur |
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| Seth Williams received his Ph.D. from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society in 2022 . He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Louisiana State University. He previously filled a Post-doctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Sociology (and in the Center for Health and Biosciences) at Rice University. Seth broadly studies urban processes related to crime, housing, and neighborhood change. He uses quantitative methods, and has a particular interest in spatial methodologies and leveraging “big” and open data sources to examine these relationships. Website: https://www.sethawilliams.com/ |
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| Christopher Contreras received his Ph.D. from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society in 2021. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His research and teaching interests focus on neighborhood disorder, drugs and crime, public policy, and the community context of crime. Website: https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/christopher_contreras |
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| Rylan Simpson received his Ph.D. in 2019 in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and is now an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. His research interests include policing, neighborhoods and crime, and has made a particularly large contribution to the literature by utilizing experimental designs to explore the impact of police accoutrements on perceptions of the police. Website: http://www.rylansimpson.com Email: simpson@uci.edu |
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| Young-An Kim received his Ph.D. in 2018 in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and is now an Assistant Professor in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. He received a B.A. in Urban Sociology from University of Seoul (South Korea) and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Texas at El Paso. His research interests are crime and community, sociology of health, urban sociology and multilevel statistical models. Website: http://youngankim.weebly.com/. Email: youngank@uci.edu |
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| James Wo received his Ph.D. from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Iowa. His research and teaching interests are in criminology, collective mobilization and social action, research methods and statistics, and urban sociology with an emphasis on neighborhoods and crime. Faculty page Email: james-wo@uiowa.edu |
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| Julie Gerlinger received her Ph.D. in 2017 in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma (Go Sooners!). Her research studies how policies and institutions marginalize certain populations and reproduce inequality, and has focused on social regulations that are intended to improve public safety but promote unequal opportunities and statuses in consequence. Webpage: http://www.ou.edu/cas/soc/people/faculty/julie-gerlinger |
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| Adam Boessen received his Ph.D. in 2014 in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His research focuses on neighborhoods and the community context of crime, spatial analysis, social networks, and juvenile delinquency. Website: www.adamboessen.com |  |
| Daniel Yates received his his Ph.D. in 2014 in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and is now a Lecturer at UC Irvine for the Department of Criminology, Law & Society. His research focused on poverty and crime, and he co-authored papers published in Criminology on poverty and crime and the relationship between returning parolees and neighborhood crime. |
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| Aaron Roussell received his Ph.D. in 2013 in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and is now an Assistant Professor at Portland State University in the Department of Sociology. With Luis Daniel Gascon, he has published a book entitled “The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles” based on 5 years of ethnographic work, and is a critical analysis of the “community policing era” using South LA as a case study. Website: https://www.pdx.edu/sociology/aaron-roussell. |  |
| Alyssa Chamberlain received her Ph.D. in 2012 in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and is now an Associate Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Here is an article describing some of the research she did while at UCI. Email: Alyssa.Chamberlain@asu.edu |
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