I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where I work at the intersection of law and the social sciences using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Currently I'm working on a series of projects about parole hearings for California's lifer inmates. Drawing on in-depth interviews with parole commissioners as well as an unusual dataset drawn from hundreds of parole hearing transcripts, I'm looking at issues such as assessment of remorse and which factors matter most in parole decisionmaking.
Another of my projects involves the experiences of law students. My first book, How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School, is coming out in August 2018. In it, I draw on surveys and interviews with more than 1100 law students from over 100 law schools, as well as interviews with law professors, law school dropouts, and law school alums.
Other areas in which I work include criminal procedure, legal consciousness, and gender and masculinity.
My teaching interests include criminal procedure, evidence, sociology of law, qualitative research methods, surveillance, gender, civil rights, design thinking, social psychology, and teaching pedagogy.
Currently I'm working on a series of projects about parole hearings for California's lifer inmates. Drawing on in-depth interviews with parole commissioners as well as an unusual dataset drawn from hundreds of parole hearing transcripts, I'm looking at issues such as assessment of remorse and which factors matter most in parole decisionmaking.
Another of my projects involves the experiences of law students. My first book, How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School, is coming out in August 2018. In it, I draw on surveys and interviews with more than 1100 law students from over 100 law schools, as well as interviews with law professors, law school dropouts, and law school alums.
Other areas in which I work include criminal procedure, legal consciousness, and gender and masculinity.
My teaching interests include criminal procedure, evidence, sociology of law, qualitative research methods, surveillance, gender, civil rights, design thinking, social psychology, and teaching pedagogy.
