Recent Ph.D. Graduates

Ryan Bagwell

Assistant Professor
Department of Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, and Security, University of Southern Mississippi

Carrie Hough

Adjunct Professor
Department of Sociology
Florida Atlantic University

Melanie McKenna

Senior Research Strategist
Florida Virtual School (AND adjunct teaching at Arizona State University)

Victoria Rapp

Postdoctoral Research Associate
National Strategic Planning & Analysis Research Center (NSPARC) at Mississippi State University

Ahzin Bahraini

Founder of Ketab, non-profit in Miami-Dade (non-profit helping underserved high school students)

Chris Brown

Adjunct in General Education
Eckerd College

Maria del Rosario Concha Mendez

Research Associate
School of Law, University of Miami

Yasukiyo Sugimoto

Multicultural Education Manager
Department of Corrections, Government of Japan

Laura Iesue

Assistant Professor
Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology
Sam Houston State University

Oshea Johnson

Regional Behavioral Health Advisor, SAMSHA

Akinshimaya Nnamdi

Adler University

Kapriske Seide

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, Davidson College

Randon Taylor

Post-doctoral researcher
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam

Brandon Martinez

Research Associate
CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance, Safety and Justice Challenge, Criminal Justice Initiative’s Prevention Portfolio and the Center for Trauma Innovation

Kaitlyn Pericak

Assistant Professor
Adult and Higher Education, University of Oklahoma

Tebogo Seebelo

Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology, University of Botswana

Felecia Casanova

Research Fellow (NIMHD, R25) Brown University
School of Public Health and Post-Doctoral Fellow (NIMH, T32) University of Miami, Center for HIV and Research in Mental Health; Research Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Miami

Anastasiia Timmer

Associate Professor
Department of Criminology & Justice Studies, California State University, Northridge

Rachel Lautenschlager

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky

Shameka Thomas

Provost Scholar/Assistant Professor
College of Medicine, The Ohio State University