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Eric L. Sevigny Vita (August 2017) p.1

Eric L. Sevigny, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology

Georgia State University

Atlanta, GA 30303

Office: 404-413-1038 [email protected]

Google Scholar / Publons / ResearchGate EDUCATION

2006 Ph.D., Public and International Affairs, Graduate School of Public and

International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1993 B.A., Psychology, Middlebury College, Vermont

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

2015 – Pres. Associate Professor

Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology

Georgia State University

2011 – 2016 Adjunct Researcher

RAND Corporation

2014 – 2015 Associate Professor

Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice

University of South Carolina

2007 – 2014 Assistant Professor

Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice

University of South Carolina

2006 – 2007 Visiting Assistant Professor

School of Criminal Justice

Michigan State University

2005 – 2006 Adjunct Professor

Administration of Justice and Legal Studies Programs

University of Pittsburgh

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2000 – 2003 Graduate Assistant

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs


1998 – 2000 Project Manager/Research Assistant

North Charles Research and Planning Group (Cambridge, MA)

1994 – 1998 Program Supervisor/Counselor

Northeastern Family Institute (Danvers, MA)

HONORS & AWARDS

2016 Publons Sentinel of Science Award

Awarded to Top 10 Percent of Researchers Contributing to Peer Review in

the Social Sciences (Oct. 2015 - Sept. 2016)

2015 Outstanding Reviewer

International Journal of Drug Policy

2014 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award Nominee

Office of the Vice President for Research and Office of Undergraduate

Research, University of South Carolina

2010 Promising Investigator Research Award

Office of Research and Graduate Education, University of South Carolina

2010 Two Thumbs Up Teaching Award

Office of Student Disability Services, University of South Carolina

2008 Outstanding Faculty Publication

Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South

Carolina

2005 Plenary Speaker

Release Drugs Conference, London, UK

2003 Lawrence Cabot Howard Doctoral Research Award


2002 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Graduate Policy Fellow

Committee to Review Research and Data on Firearms, National Academy

of Sciences


PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Publications

Sevigny, Eric L. and Gary Zhang. (In Press). Do Barriers to Crime Prevention Moderate

the Effects of Situational Crime Prevention Policies on Violent Crime in High

Schools? Journal of School Violence.

Sevigny, Eric L. (2017). Marijuana Liberalization, Research, and Policy: Contributions to

Current Knowledge and Practice. Journal of Primary Prevention 38(3): 211-216.

Sevigny, Eric L. and Michaela Saisana. (2016). Measuring Interstate Variations in the

Consequences of Illegal Drugs: A Composite Indicator Approach. Social Indicators

Research. 128: 501-529.

Hester, Rhys and Eric L. Sevigny. (2016). Court Communities in Local Context: A

Multilevel Analysis of Felony Sentencing in South Carolina. Journal of Crime and

Justice 39(1): 55-74.

Reprinted: Jennifer H. Peck. (2017). Race and Ethnicity in the Juvenile and

Criminal Justice Systems: Contemporary Issues of Offending Behavior and

Judicial Responses. New York: Routledge.

Sevigny, Eric L. and Andrea Allen. (2015). Gun Carrying Among Drug Market

Participants: Evidence from Incarcerated Drug Offenders. Journal of Quantitative

Criminology 31(3): 435-458.

Pacula, Rosalie L., David Powell, Paul Heaton, and Eric L. Sevigny. (2015). Assessing the

Effects of Medical Marijuana Laws on Marijuana Use: The Devil is in the Details.

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 34(1): 7-31.

Ferdik, Frank V., Robert K. Kaminski, Mikaela Cooney, and Eric L. Sevigny. (2014). The

Influence of Agency Policies on Conducted Energy Device Use and Police Use of

Lethal Force. Police Quarterly 17(4): 328-358.

Koons-Witt, Barbara, Eric L. Sevigny, John D. Burrow, and Rhys Hester. (2014). Gender

and Sentencing Outcomes in South Carolina: Examining the Interactions with

Race, Age, and Offense Type. Criminal Justice Policy Review 25(3): 298-323.

Thrasher, James F., James D. Sargent, Rosa Vargas, Sandra Braun, Tonatiuh Barrientos-

Gutierrez, Eric L. Sevigny, Deborah L. Billings, Edna Arillo-Santillán, Ashley

Navarro, and James Hardin. (2014). Are Movies with Tobacco, Alcohol, Drugs,

Sex, and Violence Rated for Youth? A Comparison of Rating Systems in Argentina,

Brazil, Mexico, and the United States. International Journal of Drug Policy 25(2):

267-275.


Sevigny, Eric L., Rosalie L. Pacula, and Paul Heaton. (2014). The Effects of Medical

Marijuana Laws on Potency. International Journal of Drug Policy 25(2): 308-319.

Pacula, Rosalie L. and Eric L. Sevigny. (2014). Marijuana Liberalization Policies: Why

We Can’t Learn Much from Policy Still in Motion. Journal of Policy Analysis and

Management 33(1): 212-221.

Pacula, Rosalie L. and Eric L. Sevigny. (2014). Natural Experiments in a Complex and

Dynamic Environment: The Need for a Measured Assessment of the Evidence.

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 33(1): 232-235.

Sevigny, Eric L., Brian K. Fuleihan, and Frank V. Ferdik. (2013). Do Drug Courts Reduce

the Use of Incarceration?: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Criminal Justice 41(6):

416-425.

Sevigny, Eric L., Harold A. Pollack, and Peter Reuter. (2013). Can Drug Courts Help to

Reduce Prison and Jail Populations? The Annals of the American Academy of

Political and Social Science 647(1): 190-212.

Sevigny, Eric L. (2013). Is Today’s Marijuana More Potent Simply Because It’s Fresher?

Drug Testing and Analysis 5(1): 62-67.

Sevigny, Eric L. (2011). The U.S. Sentencing Commission Should Make Its Special Data

Collections Readily Available to Outside Researchers. Federal Sentencing

Reporter 23(4): 277.

Sevigny, Eric L. (2009). Excessive Uniformity in Federal Drug Sentencing. Journal of

Quantitative Criminology 25(2): 155-180.

Sevigny, Eric L. and Phyllis D. Coontz. (2008). Patterns of Substance Involvement and

Criminal Behavior: A Gender-Based Cluster Analysis of Pennsylvania Arrestees.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 52(4):

435-453.

Reprinted: John Goodwin (Ed.). (2012). SAGE Secondary Data Analysis, Volume

II (pp. 211-230). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Caulkins, Jonathan P. and Eric L. Sevigny. (2005). How Many People Does the U.S.

Imprison for Drug Use, and Who Are They? Contemporary Drug Problems 32(3):

405-428.

Sevigny, Eric L. and Jonathan P. Caulkins. (2004). Kingpins or Mules: An Analysis of

Drug Offenders Incarcerated in Federal and State Prisons. Criminology and Public

Policy 3(3): 401-434.


Book Chapters

Sevigny, Eric L. and Brian K. Fuleihan (2016). Measurement and Design Challenges in

the Study of Drugs and Society. In Henry H. Brownstein (Ed.), Wiley Handbook on

Drugs and Society (pp. 258-281). Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Caulkins, Jonathan P. and Eric L. Sevigny. (2013). The U.S. Causes but Cannot (or Will

Not) Solve Mexico’s Drug Problems. In Tony Payan, Kathy Staudt, and Z. Anthony

Kruszewski (Eds.), A War That Can’t Be Won: Binational Perspectives on the War

on Drugs (pp. 285-310). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

Pollack, Harold A., Peter Reuter, and Eric L. Sevigny. (2011). If Drug Treatment Works

So Well, Why Are So Many Drug Users in Prison? In Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig,

and Justin McCrary (Eds.), Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs (pp. 125-

159). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sevigny, Eric L. (2011). Alaska Laws and Programs. In Mark Kleiman and James Hawdon

(Eds.), Encyclopedia of Drug Policy (pp. 10-12). Newbury Park, CA: Sage

Publications.

Sevigny, Eric L. (2011). Analogue (Designer Drug) Act. In Mark Kleiman and James

Hawdon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Drug Policy (pp. 26-27). Newbury Park, CA: Sage

Publications.

Sevigny, Eric L. (2011). Schedule of Controlled Substances. In Mark Kleiman and James

Hawdon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Drug Policy (pp. 713-716). Newbury Park, CA:

Sage Publications.

Sevigny, Eric L. (2011). South Carolina Laws and Programs. In Mark Kleiman and James

Hawdon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Drug Policy (pp. 736-737). Newbury Park, CA:

Sage Publications.

Reports and Professional Publications

Caces, M. Fe, Eric L. Sevigny, and Ra Kwang. (2017). Drug-Involved Driving among

Motor Vehicle Operators in Fatal Crashes in the United States: 2005-2014.

Washington DC: Office of National Drug Control Strategy, Executive Office of the

President.

Sevigny, Eric L. (2015). Design Considerations for a Prescription Drug Consequences

Index. Washington, DC: Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office

of the President.

Sevigny, Eric L. and Michaela Saisana. (2013). Developing the U.S. Drug Consequences

Indices 2000-2009. Washington, DC: Office of National Drug Control Policy,

Executive Office of the President.


Pollack, Harold, Eric L. Sevigny, and Peter Reuter. (2013). How to Make Drug Courts

Work. The Washington Post Wonkblog (April 26, 2013).

Caulkins, Jonathan P. and Eric L. Sevigny. (2010). The Effects of Drug Enforcement and

Imprisonment on Transit Countries: The Case of the U.S. and Mexico. In Sidney

Weintraub and Duncan Wood (Eds.), Cooperative Mexican-U.S. Antinarcotics

Efforts: A Report of the CSIS Simon Chair in Political Economy (pp. 98-126).

Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Sevigny, Eric L. (2010). Performance Assessment of the Lexington County Sheriff’s

Department COPS Methamphetamine Initiative. Final Report to the Lexington

County Sheriff’s Department, Lexington County, South Carolina.

Sevigny, Eric L. (2008). Methamphetamine in South Carolina: A Report on Trends and

Impact. Final Report to the South Carolina Meth Project, South Carolina Office of

the Attorney General.

RESEARCH GRANTS

2016-2017 Principal Investigator

Developing a Heroin/Opioid Policy Index Comparing Laws and

Regulations in Australia and the United States, Faculty International

Partnership Engagement Grant to Leverage External Funding, Georgia

State University ($3,820)


Assessing the Congruence of Estimates of Drug-Related Emergency

Department Visits Produced by the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)

and the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP): Can HCUP Fill

the Gap Left By DAWN?, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive

Office of the President ($149,132)


Analysis of Drug-Involved Driving Data from the Fatality Analysis

Reporting System: An Update and Extension through 2014, Office of

National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President ($64,916)

2011-2015 Investigator (PI: Rosalie Liccardo Pacula)

Implementation of Medical Marijuana and its Impact on Health, RAND

Corporation, pass-through funding from the National Institute on Drug

Abuse (Project Total: $2,861,677)



Analysis of Drug-Involved Driving Data from the Fatality Analysis

Reporting System: An Update and Extension, Office of National Drug

Control Policy, Executive Office of the President ($49,788)


Constructing a Prescription Drug Consequences Index, Office of National

Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President ($49,939)


Constructing a Drug Consequences Index, Office of National Drug Control

Policy, Executive Office of the President ($152,187)


Constructing a Composite Index to Measure the Harm from Illegal Drugs

Promising Investigator Research Award, Office of Research and Graduate

Education, University of South Carolina ($19,946)

2009-2010 Principal Investigator (Co-PI: Michael Smith)

Lexington County Methamphetamine Initiative Evaluation, Lexington

County (SC) Sheriff’s Department, pass-through funding from the U.S.

Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

($31,526)

2007-2008 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI: Barbara Koons-Witt)

The Impact of a Community Corrections Drug Testing and Sanctions

Program on Offender Drug Use, Recidivism, and Social Functioning: A

Pilot Investigation, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice,

University of South Carolina ($9,942)

PRESENTATIONS

Invited Talks and Workshops

Meylakhs, Peter and Eric L. Sevigny. (May 2017). “Development of a Global Policy Index

Measuring National Commitments to HIV Prevention and Treatment among People

Who Inject Drugs.” International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, 10th Annual

Conference, Aarhus, Denmark.

Sevigny, Eric L. (February 2017). “Drug Courts and Incarceration: A Fresh Look.” Panel

on Drug Courts, Solomon Center on Health Law and Policy, Yale University, New

Haven, CT.


Sevigny, Eric L. (May 2015). “Composite Indicators in the Drug Field:

Insights from the U.S. Drug Consequences Indices.” International Society for the

Study of Drug Policy, 9th Annual Conference, Ghent, Belgium.

Sevigny, Eric L. (April 2015). “Design Considerations for a Prescription Drug

Consequences Index.” Agency Briefing, Office of National Drug Control Policy,

Washington, DC.

Sevigny, Eric L. (April 2015). “Pipeline or Diversion: Drug Courts as an Alternative to

Incarceration.” Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and

Criminal Justice, Doha, Qatar.

Sevigny, Eric L. (August 2012). “Measuring National Trends and Interstate Variations in

the Consequences of Illegal Drugs Using the U.S. Drug Consequences Indices:

2000-2009.” Federal Interagency Briefing, Office of National Drug Control Policy,

Washington, DC.

Sevigny, Eric L., Harold A. Pollack, and Peter Reuter. (July 2012). “Can Drug Courts Help

Reduce Prison and Jail Populations?” RAND Drug Policy Research Center, Brown

Bag Seminar, Washington, DC.

Sevigny, Eric L. (December 2009). “Methamphetamine in South Carolina.” 6th Annual

South Carolina Drugs of Abuse Conference, Columbia, SC.

Sevigny, Eric L. (January 2005). “Incarceration: Kingpins or Mules?” Drugs University IV

Conference, Release, London, UK.

Contributed Presentations (Recent)

Sevigny, Eric L. and William King. (June 2017). “Traditional Dissertations vs. Series of

Papers.” Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Graduate Directors Summit, East Lansing, MI.

Sevigny, Eric L. (November 2016). “Police Use of Force and Suspect Injury: The

Mediating Role of Drug and Alcohol Intoxication.” American Society of

Criminology, 68th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Sevigny, Eric L. (May 2016). “Global Trends in Cannabis Potency: A Systematic Review

and Meta-Regression.” International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, 10th

Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Sevigny, Eric L. (April 2016). “The Effects of State Marijuana Laws on Marijuana-

Involved Driving: Evidence from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System.”

Cannabis Science and Policy Summit, New York, NY.


Sevigny, Eric L. (May 2015). “Medical Marijuana Laws and Traffic Fatalities. The Effects

of Per Se Drugged Driving and Medical Marijuana Laws on Drug-Related Traffic

Fatalities in the United States, 1990-2012.” International Society for the Study of

Drug Policy, 9th Annual Conference, Ghent, Belgium.

Sevigny, Eric L. (November 2014). “Medical Marijuana by the Numbers.” American

Society of Criminology, 66th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

M. Fe Caces, Eric L. Sevigny, Kwang Hyun Ra, Terry Zobeck, and Karen Rank. (August

2014). “Trends in Drug-involved Driver Fatalities in the United States, 2005-

2012.” 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings, Boston, MA.

Sevigny, Eric L. (May 2014). “Medical Marijuana by the Numbers.” International Society

for the Study of Drug Policy, 8th Annual Conference, Rome, Italy.

Sevigny, Eric L. (November 2013). “The U.S. Heroin and Methamphetamine

Consequences Indices: Interstate Variations and Association with State Policies.”

American Society of Criminology, 65th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Sevigny, Eric L., Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, and Paul Heaton. (May 2013). “The Effects of

State Marijuana Policies on Potency.” International Society for the Study of Drug

Policy, 7th Annual Conference, Bogota, Colombia.

Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo, David Powell, Paul Heaton, and Eric L. Sevigny. (May 2013).

“Assessing the Effects of Medical Marijuana Laws on Marijuana and Alcohol Use:

The Devil is in the Details.” International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, 7th

Annual Conference, Bogota, Colombia.

Pollack, Harold A., Eric L. Sevigny, and Peter Reuter. (May 2013). “Aging Drug-Use

Cohorts in the American Correctional System.” International Society for the Study

of Drug Policy, 7th Annual Conference, Bogota, Colombia.

Fuleihan, Brian, Frank V. Ferdik, and Eric L. Sevigny. (November 2012). “Do Drug Courts

Conserve Custodial Resources? A Meta-Analysis.” American Society of

Criminology, 64th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Sevigny, Eric L. (November 2012). “The Effects of State Medical Marijuana Policies on

Cannabis Potency and Quality: Evidence from Seized Samples.” American Society

of Criminology, 64th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Sevigny, Eric L. (November 2012). “The Limited Contribution Currently Made by Drug

Courts.” American Society of Criminology, 64th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Sevigny, Eric L. (May 2012). “Comparing Drug-Related Consequences across Time and

States: Evidence from the U.S. Drug Consequences Index Project.” International

Society for the Study of Drug Policy, 6th Annual Conference, Canterbury, UK.


COURSES TAUGHT

Georgia State University (2015 – Present)

Applied Regression Analysis (G)

Contemporary Criminal Justice Policy (G)

Statistics in Criminal Justice II (G)

Criminal Justice Policy Analysis (U)

University of South Carolina (2007 - 2015)

Drugs and Crime (U)

Illegal Drug Films and Society (U)

Research Methods in Criminal Justice (U)

Punishment and Society (U/G)

Crime, Law, and Public Policy (G)

Quantitative Methods in Criminal Justice (G)

Practical Secondary Data Analysis (G)

Research Methods in Criminal Justice (G)

Michigan State University (2006 - 2007)

Drugs, Policy, and the Law (U)

Research Methods in Criminal Justice (U)

University of Pittsburgh (2005 - 2006) Drugs, Policy, and the Law (U)

STUDENT MENTORSHIP

Doctoral Dissertations

Chair

Travis Jones (In Progress). Untitled Dissertation on Cryptomarkets, University of South

Carolina.

Rhys Hester (2012). “Criminal Sentencing in the Court Communities of South Carolina:

An Examination of Offender, Judge, and County Characteristics,” University of South

Carolina.

• Recipient of the Dera D. Parkinson Fellowship for excellence in graduate study,

research, and scholarship

Committee Member

Joy D. Burns, M.Ed. (In Progress). Untitled Dissertation on Female Reentry, Georgia State

University, School of Public Health

Brian K. Fuleihan (In Progress). “Applying the Drug Court Model to Adolescents:

Viewpoints of Juvenile Drug Court Teams in South Carolina,” University of South

Carolina.


Gary Zhang (In Progress). Untitled Dissertation on School Violence, University of South

Carolina.

Xueyi Xing (2016). “The Impact of Deinstitutionalization on Murders of Law Enforcement

Officers,” University of South Carolina.

Katanya Goswell (2014). “Gender Similarities and Differences among a Sample of Jail

Detainees,” Fielding Graduate University.

Master’s Theses

Chair

Michael Rosen. (In Progress). “Morality of Gangs: Assessing Moral Disengagement and

its Effect on the Association between Gang Affiliation and Criminal Offending.” Georgia

State University.

Kirsten Hill. (In Progress). “Assessing the Association between Movie Depictions of

Marijuana and Use of Marijuana by Youth and Young Adults.” Georgia State University.

Megan A. Novak. (2015). “Criminology on Crimes against Humanity: A North Korean

Case Study.” University of South Carolina.

Committee Member

Cory M. Thigpen (2008). “South Carolina Police Perspectives on Illicit Drugs and Drug

Enforcement: Results from a Statewide Agency Survey.” University of South Carolina.

Graduate Internships/Independent Studies

Thaddeus Johnson. (Spring 2017). “Examining the Effect of Educational Attainment on

Police Incivility and Misconduct.” Georgia State University.

Brian Fuleihan. (Spring 2012). “Do Drug Courts Conserve Custodial Resources?”

University of South Carolina.

Allison Carter. (Spring 2011). “The Effects of Incarceration on Crime.” University of

South Carolina.

Rhys Hester. (Spring 2010). “Criminal Courts and Sentencing.” University of South

Carolina.

Graduate Internships Supervised

Caambridge Horton. (Fall 2016). “Small Creek Alliance: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.”

Georgia State University.


Undergraduate Independent Studies

Mary Eakin. (Summer 2017). “Mental Illness among Juveniles in the Justice System: Best

Practices on Arresting the Transition to Adult Offending.” Georgia State University.

Mahamoudou Kaba. (Summer 2015). “Boko Haram and Drug Trafficking.” University of

South Carolina.

Brittney Brown. (Spring 2014). “Trends and Patterns in Illicit Methamphetamine

Manufacturing in Lexington County, SC.” University of South Carolina.

Michael Calandra. (Summer 2012). “The Cannabis Potency Monitoring Project.”

University of South Carolina.

James Dennis, Jr. (Summer 2009). “Policing and Drug Raids: A Constitutional and

Empirical Assessment.” University of South Carolina.

Undergraduate Research Mentorship

Jared Greathouse. (2017-18). “Drug Enforcement and Violence: Protocol for an Updated

Systematic Review and Meta-Regression.” University Assistantship Program, Honors

College, Georgia State University.

Hunter Dayton. (2014). “The Content of Tablets Sold as Ecstasy: Evidence from an Online

Testing Service.” Magellan Apprentice and Magellan Mini-Grant Awardee, Office of

Undergraduate Research, University of South Carolina.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Guest Editor

Journal of Primary Prevention, Special Issue on Cannabis Policy (2016-2017)

Journal Editorial Boards

Associate Editor, Journal of Drug Policy Analysis (2011 – Present)

Editorial Board, Victims and Offenders (2010 – Present)

Editorial Board, Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2013 – 2015)

Expert Panels and Consultations

Assessing the Impact of Different Regulatory Frameworks, Expert Consultation on Drug

Regulation, Beckley Foundation, Rome, Italy (2014)


Measurement of Drug-Related Crime, Drugs and Crime Project Workshop, Office of

National Drug Control Policy, Washington, DC (2011)

Professional Organization Service

Scientific Organizing Committee, 11th Annual Conference, International Society for the

Study of Drug Policy, Aarhus, Denmark (2017).

Paper Reviewer, The Cannabis Science & Policy Summit, New York University, New

York, NY (2016).


Study of Drug Policy, Sydney, Australia (2016).

Scientific Organizing Committee & Nominations Committee, 9th Annual Conference,

International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, Ghent, Belgium (2015).


Study of Drug Policy, Rome, Italy (2014).


Study of Drug Policy, Bogota, Columbia (2013).

Program Committee, Sub-Area Chair for Drug Enforcement, 61st Annual Meeting,

American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA (2009).

External Reviewer: Grants and Manuscripts

Agencies and Organizations:

• Zoukis Best Paper Award Committee, Georgia State University (2016)

• National Institute of Justice (2015, 2013)

• Public Safety Performance Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts (2014)

• RAND Corporation (2013, 2010)

• Office of the Vice President for Research, University of South Carolina (2011)

• Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership, University of Pittsburgh (2006)

Journals:

• 65 total reviews for 32 different journals in the fields of criminology, policy, and

public health, including International Journal of Drug Policy, Criminology, Justice

Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Criminal Justice Policy Review,

and Addiction.

• Ranked in the 98th percentile for verified peer-review contributions on Publons

through February 2017.

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UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Member, Triennial Evaluation Committee for the Chair of the Department of Criminal

Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University (2017)

2CI Search Committee, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State

University (2017)

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia

State University (2016 – Present)

Faculty Judge, Undergraduate Research Conference, Georgia State University (2017,

2016)

Chair, Scholarship and Awards Committee, Department of Criminal Justice and

Criminology, Georgia State University (2015 – Present)

Panel Moderator, Zoukis Summer Institute on Juvenile Justice, Georgia State University

(2016)

Faculty Associate, Carolina Student Judicial Council, University of South Carolina (2007

– 2015)

Departmental Bylaws Committee, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice,

University of South Carolina (2014 – 2015)

Graduate Committee, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of

South Carolina (2014 – 2015, 2008 – 2010)

Faculty Mentor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South

Carolina (2014 – 2015)

Faculty Judge, Graduate Student Day, University of South Carolina (2015, 2014, 2013)

Faculty Advisor, Alpha Sigma Phi Chapter of Lambda Alpha Epsilon, the American

Criminal Justice Association, University of South Carolina (2011 – 2014)

University Review Committee, Advanced Support Program for Innovative Research

Excellence-I (ASPIRE-I), Office of the Vice President for Research, University of South

Carolina (2012)

Undergraduate Committee, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University

of South Carolina (2007 – 2008)

Judge, USC Region II Science and Engineering Fair, University of South Carolina (2008)


Judicial Board Member, Student Judicial System, University of Pittsburgh (2004 – 2006)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Workgroup Member, South Carolina State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup, South

Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services (2015, 2009–2012)

Speaker, American Constitution Society, USC Chapter, Columbia SC (2013)

Speaker, ACLU Advocacy and Activism Workshop, Columbia, SC (2010)

Advisor, League of Women Voters of the Charleston Area (2010)

Advisor, SC Meth Project, South Carolina Office of the Attorney General (2008)

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Society of Criminology

International Society for the Study of Drug Policy

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