Current Members

Faculty Directors

Susan Coutin
scoutin@uci.edu

she/her/hers
Associate Dean for Academic Programs
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology

law, immigration, human rights, citizenship, political activism
Lee Cabatingan
lcabatin@uci.edu

she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology

(non)sovereignty, property, (post)colonial, region, nation-state, Caribbean

Lab Coordinator

Gabriel Alvarez

galvare4@uci.edu
he/him/his
Criminology, Law and Society

Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Jessica López-Espino
she/her/hers/ella
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Criminology, Law and Society

Latinxs in the US, racialization, language, child welfare
Courtney M. Echols
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society
JD/PhD concurrent program

race/ethnicity, historical anti-Black violence, transitional justice, collective memory, policing
Ekaterina (Katya) Moiseeva
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

cannabis legalization, socio-legal change, social equity
Amanda M. Fisher
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

gender, stigma, legal profession, sentencing, punishment
Gabriela Gonzalez
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

punishment, prisons, immigration enforcement, collateral consequences 
Ruth Barankevich
she/her/hers
Social Ecology


built environment, design, social interaction
Gabriel Alvarez
he/him/his
Criminology, Law and Society

family violence, life-course criminology, psychology and law, family demography, law and society
Joanne DeCaro
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

punishment, trauma, re-entry, lifers
Navjyot Gill
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

racialization, criminalization of place, spatial inequality, state violence 

Vivianna Goh
she/her/hers
Social Ecology Core

community health, food insecurity, urban agriculture, social inequality
Margaret Goldman 
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

racism in education, alternative education, youth justice, school-prison nexus 
Alex Aguirre
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

policing, police oversight, accountability, law enforcement technology, legal mobilization, public policy
Jordan C. Grasso
they/them/theirs
Criminology, Law & Society

police violence and militarization, queer theory, queer space and safety
Khirad Siddiqui
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

prisons, islam, surveillance
Vicente Celestino Mata
he/him/his
Criminology, Law & Society

immigration law/policy, immigration industrial complex
Carolyn Coles-Taylor
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

policing, police training, critical race theory, disproportionate minority contact
Meghan Maree Ballard
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

linguistic (in)justice, racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system, access to justice
Mutsumi Ogaki
she/her/hers
Social Ecology


transnational feminisms, gender and social movements, online activism, storytelling, cultural narratives
Izzy Patten
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

affirmative consent, title IX, legal approaches to sexual harm
Kariar Al-Naiem
he/him/his
Criminology, Law & Society

criminalization of geographies, transnational production of threat, Islamophobia
Jessica Slattery
she/her/hers
Anthropology


investor-state relations, special economic zones, Central America 
Jahaira Pacheco
she/her/hers
Criminology, Law & Society

immigration law and policy, crimmigration, migration 
Caro Mooney
they/them/ella
Criminology, Law & Society

trans safety and agency, healthcare equity
Orlando Lara
he/him/his
Anthropology, Race and Justice Emphasis

citizenship, documentation, state violence, race and ethnicity, multimodality