CCJS is pleased to introduce our new faculty members:
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Robert Brame joins the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice as a professor in the fall of 2021. His research has been focused on understanding criminal careers and life course criminology. In particular, he has concentrated on developing new insights on the varied individual, family, peer, and neighborhood factors that shape individual offending trajectories. He completed his PhD in Criminology at the University of Maryland in 1997 and stayed on as an assistant professor for four years. He was a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon with the National Consortium on Violence Research, headed by Al Blumstein. He has been a Professor at the University of South Carolina since 2013. Brame has published his works extensively in top peer-reviewed criminology and criminal justice journals, such as Justice Quarterly, Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. |
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Kyle Dorsey joins the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice as a lecturer in the Fall of 2020. This fall, Kyle will teach Introduction to Criminal Justice, Introduction to Criminology, Responses to Violence, Slavery in the 21st Century: Combating Human Trafficking, and Crime and Delinquency Prevention. In graduate school, his research focused on examining the relationship between juvenile co-offending experiences and adult criminal behavior. Kyle’s current research interests include juvenile justice and the experience of minors in the criminal justice system, peer influence, and the intersection of the criminal justice system and mental health. Kyle earned a B.A and an M.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland. |
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Rachel Ellis joins the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice as an assistant professor in the fall of 2020. Her research focuses on gender and punishment. Using qualitative methods – especially ethnography and interviews – Dr. Ellis investigates incarceration and inequality related to race/class/gender, sexuality, and religion. Her upcoming book is based on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork on religious life inside a U.S. state women’s prison. Ellis earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, and started her career at the University of Missouri-St. Louis before joining UMD. Read more |
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Brooklynn K. Hitchens joins the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice as a postdoctoral fellow (Fall 2020) and tenure-track assistant professor (beginning Fall 2021). Hitchens received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University in July 2020. Hitchens is an urban ethnographer whose research interests include race, class and gender in crime and victimization; urban violence and trauma; Black female survivors of violence; and participatory action research (PAR) methods. Hitchens aims to advance scholarship that centers the lived experiences of marginalized Black Americans and elucidates how structural inequities shape disparate outcomes for that population. Read more |
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Zubin Jelveh is an assistant professor with a joint appointment at the College of Information Studies (iSchool) and Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, starting in January 2021. Zubin is currently a research director at Crime Lab New York – a University of Chicago research institute that partners with civic and community leaders to design, test, and scale promising programs and policies to reduce violence and the harms associated with the criminal justice system. Zubin’s research connects techniques from machine learning to problems in the social sciences. Prior to entering the data science field, Zubin was a journalist covering economics for outlets like The New York Times, Condé Nast Portfolio, and The New Republic. Zubin holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. |
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Jessica Morabito joins the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice as a lecturer in the Fall of 2020. She is excited to teach courses on topics including criminology, responses to violence, human trafficking and juvenile delinquency. She is also looking forward to including some of her prior research interests in her courses, such as victimology and the impact of parental incarceration on children. Jessica earned an M.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland. Read more |
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Robert Stewart joins the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice as an assistant professor after receiving a PhD from the University of Minnesota. As a "sociocriminologist," his research interests are centered on the social, political and collateral consequences of criminal justice involvement with an emphasis on the accumulating effects of criminal justice interaction and criminal records on impacted people and communities. He is a member of a multistate research team studying criminal legal financial obligations, and he is co-principal investigator on a study of online criminal record data accuracy. Read more |
