Professional Service

• American Sociological Association. Role: Committee member. James F. Short, Jr. Distinguished Paper Award. Crime, Law, and Deviance Section. 02/01/2024 - present
• National Science Foundation (NSF). Sociology Advisory Panel. 01/30/2024 - present
• American Society of Criminology. Chair, “A Critical Conversation on Corrections, Reentry, and Desistance.” . 11/15/2023 - present
• Division on Corrections and Sentencing, American Society of Criminology. Faculty mentor to graduate student. 08/15/2023 - 08/15/2024
• Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association. Communication and Publications Committee. 10/2022 - present
• Division on Corrections and Sentencing, American Society of Criminology. Faculty Mentorship Events Planning Committee. 09/2022 - present
• Division of Women & Crime, American Society of Criminology. Mentor to graduate student. 09/2020 - 09/2021
• Sutherland Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems. Judge and Chair. 01/2019 - 06/2019
• Lindesmith Graduate Student Paper Competition, Society for the Study of Social Problems. Judge. 01/2018 - 02/2018
• Law & Society Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems. Vice-Chair. 01/2017 - 01/2019

Internal Service

• Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor of Sociology/Criminology. 07/01/2023 - 12/15/2023. Department service.
• Criminology Graduate Area Subcommittee . 01/2023 - present. Department service.
• Faculty Senator, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. 09/2022 - present. College service.
• Undergraduate Committee. 07/2022 - present. Department service.
• Criminology Committee. 07/2022 - 06/2023. Department service.

Community Partnership

• Racial Equity in Policing Commission, Salt Lake City. 01/2023 - present
• Citizen Review Board, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. 01/2020 - 06/2022

Honors & Awards

• Winner of the William L. Simon/Routledge Outstanding Paper Award ($500). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), 03/22/2024
• PI, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences/ VPR Seed Grant, University of Utah: Assessing the Impacts of Incarceration on Excess Mortality among Formerly Incarcerated Individuals and the Health of Their Newborns in Utah ($18,000, funded). 02/28/2024
• Junior Faculty Research Leave. College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Utah, 01/2024
• Rising Researcher Award ($2,000). Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents, 03/2022

In the Media

• “You Need to Know About Prison Gerrymandering.” Interviewed by Angela Lezaic in The Daily Utah Chronicle. 01/2023. https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2023/01/12/lezaic-p...
• “The Death Penalty in Nevada.” Nevada Week. PBS Las Vegas. (Television Show). 03/2022. https://www.vegaspbs.org/nevada-week/
• “It’s Time to Abolish the Death Penalty in Nevada.” The Nevada Independent. 02/2022. https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/its-time-...
• “Courts in more Republican-leaning counties sentence Black individuals to longer prison terms than White individuals.” London School of Economics US Centre for American Politics and Policy. 09/2021. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2021/08/10/court...
• “Death Penalty is Costly, Ineffective,” Las Vegas Sun. 03/2021. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/mar/26/death-pen...
• Untenured Tracks. 17E50: “Teaching and Scholarship in a Pandemic.” . 09/2020. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3b1fVQpgga5EJZw3P...
• “Locking People in Cages and Family Separation is Nothing New in Nevada.” The Nevada Independent. 07/2018. https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/locking-p...