GOOD NEWS (2020-2021)

Congratulations to Matthew Clair. His book on Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court (Princeton University Press) was published in October 2020. As testament to its importance, Matt’s work has already garnered six national awards: (1) Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section, American Sociological Association (ASA); (2) Independent Book Publishers Book Award, 2021 Goal Medal in Current Events 2; (3) Named, One of Best Political Economy Books of 2020 by ProMarket, Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; (4) Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Crime, Law, Deviance Section, ASA; (5) Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award, Law and Society Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems; and (6) Honorable Mention, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Race,Gender, Class Section, ASA. WAY TO GO Matt !!!

Applause as well to Charles Bell. Charles Bell is up next as author of a scholarly book. His work entitled, Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School (Johns Hopkins Press) is due out on October19, 2021. Charles a big CONGRATULATIONS on completing your book. We hope that it too will have a strong impact on the field.

Welcome 2021 Peterson Fellows
The ASC Executive Board recently announced the 2021 Peterson Fellows.  Thus, we congratulate and welcome Popy Begum (Rutgers University), Alondra Garza (Sam Houston State University), and Maria Valdovinos Olson (George Mason University) to the PFDP. We look forward to engaging with you in a variety of PFDP activities over time.

Peterson Fellows on the Move

Congratulations are in order to 3 Fellows, who recently completed their dissertations. Well done Drs. Caraballos, Contreras, and Lindsay. Welcome to faculty or post-doctoral status! As well, each of them leaves her/his graduate program as an active and already-published scholar. The following are their new appointments:

Krystlelynn Caraballos (2016 Cohort) will be moving from her graduate student home at Georgia State University to the Phoenix area, where she will first serve as a postdoctoral fellow in Criminal Justice & Criminology at Arizona State. In 2023, she will transition from her postdoctoral status to an assistant professor position in this department.

Christopher Contreras (2019 Cohort) has traversed from the University of California, Irvine where he received his Ph.D. to Boston Massachusetts where he has joined the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s Department of Sociology as an assistant professor.

Sadé Lindsay (2018 Cohort) has traveled north and east from the midwest. She has moved from her graduate home at Ohio State University to Cornell University where she will spend the next two years as Provost Faculty Postdoctoral Associate in Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology. Starting in 2023, she will transition to assistant professor status in these departments.

Brooklynn Hitchens (2018 Cohort) has not changed her physical location. However, she has made a status move from postdoctoral fellow to assistant professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland.

Beyond those who are physically on the move, the following Peterson fellows are celebrating having completed their first year as faculty: Caroline Bailey (2019 Cohort), Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Leah Butler (2019 Cohort), University of Nebraska-Omaha; Arynn Infante (2017 Cohort), Portland State University; and, Tameka Samuels-Jones (2018 Cohort), York University. Congratulations all for a successful first year; best of luck as you move forward on the tenure track.

Other Major Accomplishments   

Publications. Peterson Fellows were quite active during 2020 and 2021 in making contributions to literature in their respective specialties. Besides the books by Matt Clair and Charles Bell, the collective set of 21 fellows published (some still forthcoming) 60 articles in refereed journals during the period. Seventeen of the twenty-one fellows contributed to the total for an average of 3.5 per contributor. In addition, 21 book chapters were published or accepted for publication during the period.

Awards for Scholarly Work. Multiple fellows received University-level or National awards for their scholarship during 2020 and 2021.

Christopher Contreras (2019 Cohort) is the recipient of four awards for three individual articles as follows:

American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) Gene Carte Student Paper First Place Award, and the Western Society of Criminology’s Miki Vobryzek-Bolden Student Paper First Pace Award for “Neighborhood Walkability and Crime:…” (2020)

ASC’s Division of Communities and Place’s Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Student Scholar Award for “Drugs, Crime, Space, and Time:…” (2021)

The Society for the Study of Social Problems’ Drinking and Drug Division’s Bruce D. Johnson Graduate Student Paper First Place Award for “Neighborhoods and Health:…” (2021)

Alondra Garza received awards for her scholarship during her year of application for the Peterson Fellowship, as follows:

American Society of Criminology’s Division on Women and Crime’s Graduate Scholar Award (2010)

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ Victimology Section’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2010)

Sadé Lindsay was the recipient of multiple awards during 2020 and 2021:

American Society of Criminology’s Division on Corrections and Sentencing’s Benjamin Steiner Excellence in Corrections Paper Award (2021) for “The Prison Credential Dilemma:…”

The Society for the Study of Social Problems’ Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division’s Graduate Student Paper Honorable Mention Award (2021) for “… How Formerly Incarcerated Men Navigate the Labor Market with Prison Credentials.”

Inaugural Recipient of the Black Women PhDs Scholarship Award.

Jeaneé Miller was awarded the University at Albany’s University Distinguished Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “… A History of Racial Diversity and Conflict in Four Philadelphia Neighborhoods, 1960-2015.”

Grants and Fellowships. Several Peterson Fellows acquired External Grants or prestigious Fellowships during 2020 and 2021.

Caroline Bailey is the recipient of a grant from Indianapolis Public Schools to conduct an “Analysis of Indianapolis Public School’s Police Department.”

Colleen Berryessa is among a team of investigators who received grants from Arnold Ventures to: provide “Technical Support for New Jersey Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Justice;” and conduct an evaluation of the “New Jersey Commission on Sentencing and criminal Disposition.”

Gabriela Kirk is the inagural recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Charles E. Lindblom Memorial Fellowship for her work on “… Understanding the Role of Electronic Monitoring in Local Policy Reform. The Lindblom Fellowship supports interdisciplinary social science projects that can also be categorized as “anticipatory research i.e., research directed towards “identifying, contextualizing, and framing emergent social phenomena.”

Maria Valdovinos Olson is Doctoral Co-Principal Investigator of a National Institute of Justice Grant to study “Adverse Impacts of Organizational Stress on Officer Health and Wellness: Causes, Correlates, and Mitigation”