Katherine Maldonado, PhD

Katherine Maldonado Fabela is a mother of three from South Central Los Angeles, and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include medical sociology, inequalities, critical...

Walker Kahn, PhD

Walker Kahn (he/him) studies at University of Wisconsin. His research explores debt collection as a socially emergent process connecting market structures to the precarity of everyday people. Walker focuses on collections litigation to examine the tense relationship...

Caitlin Curry, PhD

Caitlin Curry completed their dissertation at the University of Minnesota in 2024. They are currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at Hamline University. Caitlin uses qualitative methods to investigate how the criminal legal system...

Jennifer Standish, PhD

Jennifer Standish studies the social, legal, and political history of labor unions in the 20th century U.S. South. Her dissertation focuses on the history of “Right-to-Work” laws and union security agreements. Union organizers argue that these laws create a “free...

Melanie Brazell, PhD

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...

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