Aarushi Shah

Aarushi Shah (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology at Columbia University. Her dissertation is an ethnography of the U.S. criminal legal response to intimate partner violence. Set in a domestic violence court, it follows the broader...

Maya Manian

Maya Manian (she/her) is a professor of law and Faculty Director of the Health Law and Policy Program at American University Washington College of Law and a PhD candidate in medical sociology at UCSF. Her research examines the intersection of law and reproductive...

Jaqueline Lepe

Jaqueline Lepe (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation examines California’s shift to community-based youth justice under Senate Bill 823, focusing on how frontline juvenile justice bureaucrats shape the policy’s implementation, to...

Catherine Crooke

Catherine Crooke (she/they) is a lawyer and PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at UCLA. Her dissertation draws on over four years of participant observation and nearly 100 interviews with Los Angeles-based legal service providers to examine the U.S....

Michael Nishimura

Michael Nishimura (he/him) is a PhD candidate in sociology at UCSB. Michael researches the relationship between Asian racialization, the carceral state, and the migrant punishment system. His dissertation focuses on the pathways and livelihoods of formerly...

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