Melanie Brazell, PhD

by | May 30, 2022

As a Chancellor’s Fellow, Melanie Brazzell studies gender, critical criminology, and social movements. Melanie’s dissertation focuses on transformative justice alternatives to prison and policing, particularly for gender-based violence. Drawing on their involvement in...

David Showalter, PhD

by | May 10, 2021

David Showalter completed their dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley in 2022. They are currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. David is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of California,...

Sadé Lindsay, PhD

by | May 14, 2020

Sadé’s research interests broadly include racial inequality, prisoner reentry and employment, incarceration and health, and drug use and policy. Her dissertation, Effects of Contradictory Signals on Post-Prison Labor Market Outcomes, draws on a field experiment...

Micah Khater, PhD

by | May 14, 2020

Micah Khater’s dissertation, “‘Unable to Find Any Trace of Her’: Black Women, Genealogies of Escape, and Alabama Prisons, 1920–1950,” examines how black women negotiated encounters with and contested the violence of the carceral state by running away from...

Jessica Katzenstein, PhD

by | May 14, 2020

U.S. policing has faced a mounting legitimacy crisis over the past several years, from Ferguson’s 2014 protests to the rise of the Movement for Black Lives. While police officials insist that unjust killings are the fault of “bad apples” in the force, critics argue...

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