Welcome Carolina Hernandez (she/her) a Chicana PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She broadly studies Latinx racial construction, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) social justice movements, and intersectional resistance.  www.sociology.pitt.edu/people/carol...

¡Felicidades and Congratulations to LC Scholar Janice Iwama for winning the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) election for Trustee-at-Large! Go Represent! www.american.edu/spa/faculty/...

The app is open for the 2026 Summer Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institutes (IQRMI) for doctoral students at UT Austin. Learn more about IQRMI for doctoral students here: IQRMI-DS at UT Austin Apply for IQRMI here: redcap.austin.utexas.edu/surveys/?s=Y... Deadline: Jan 14, 2026

¡Felicidades! Congratulations to Now Dr. Lucy Acosta! Way to Represent!

Alejandro (Alex) Gimenez Santana is the Winter 2025 Latina/o/x Criminology Scholar Spotlight “Not all convenience stores are equal”: An analysis of the criminogenic role of corner stores in Newark, NJ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Welcome a new member to Latina/o/x Criminology (LC)  Erin L. Cuéllar Wright is a 3rd-year PhD student in Sociology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Liza Aranda Representing with important work! Her team documents how immigrant parents and their US citizen children have been affected by the widespread enforcement actions in FL: Im/migrant Well-Being Research Center at USF here: usf.to/IWRCReport2025

Little late sharing this but way to Represent Amada Armenta! luskin.ucla.edu/lppi-faculty...

LC ASC 2025

We are continuing our effort with the “LC Scholars on the Market” - Vitoria De Francisco Lopes and Carolina Caliman have great possibilities to contribute your program/department/school! [https://www.latcrim.org/on-the-market.html]

We are continuing our effort with the “LC Scholars on the Market” - Vitoria De Francisco Lopes and Carolina Caliman have great possibilities to contribute your program/department/school! [https://www.latcrim.org/on-the-market.html]

It is with a heavy heart that our LC Scholar colleague Greg Prieto (www.gregprieto.com) passed away last week after battling with cancer which Greg documented here: gregprieto.substack.com My deepest condolences to all who loved Greg, familia, friends, colleagues, students, mentors, and advisees.

We are continuing our effort with the “LC Scholars on the Market” - Vitoria De Francisco Lopes and Carolina Caliman have great possibilities to contribute your program/department/school! www.latcrim.org/on-the-marke...

Way to Represent Robert J. Durán and Oralia Loza on this new important research! Felicidades! Congratulations! cup.columbia.edu/book/justice...

Dear LC comunidad y familia, We hope you and all your loved ones are safe and healthy. Pilar Larroulet is the Fall 2025 Latina/o/x Criminology Scholar Spotlight “From prison to work? Job-crime patterns for women in a precarious labor market” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

LC has a new LinkedIn account – please follow www.linkedin.com/in/latina-o-...

We are continuing our effort with the “LC Scholars on the Market” - Carolina Ribeiro Caliman has great possibilities to contribute your program/department/school! Google Scholar: tinyurl.com/26fh6a7p LinkedIn: tinyurl.com/2zss3tr4

For those of you in the Boston area. Looking forward to the event in a couple of weeks.

Colleagues and friends are conducting the Public Sector Public Service Announcement (PSPSA) project. Please consider filling it out as well as spread the word! forms.gle/XwEex7yiHUnY...

We are continuing our effort with the “LC Scholars on the Market” - Vitoria De Francisco Lopes has great possibilities to contribute your program/department/school!

We are continuing our effort with the “LC Scholars on the Market” - Vitoria De Francisco Lopes has great possibilities to contribute your program/department/school!

Way to Represent Edward D. Vargas! click.reply.asu.edu?qs=339ea5878...

LC Comunidad, I hope you are all well. Way to Represent LC Scholar Irene Vega on NPR Morning Edition! www.npr.org/2025/07/16/n...

¡Felicidades and Congratulations to NOW Dr. Vanessa J. Gutiérrez for successfully defending her dissertation titled “Perceptions of Campus Police Legitimacy: A Cross-institutional Examination of Procedural Justice.”!! She will be an Assistant Professor at St. Edward's University. Way to Represent!!

¡Felicidades/Congratulations to fellow Sun Devil Dr. Bri Romanello “who is now off the market”! Bri starts an Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas in Sociology/ Criminology with a dual appointment in Latin American and Latino Studies starting this fall! Way to Represent!

¡Felicidades to Nancy Rodriguez who will join UT Austin this July, as the new Director of the Latino Research Institute! Way to Represent! Wishing you and familia only the best in this next chapter of your career and lives!

Felicidades/Congratulations to Daniel Martínez (University of Arizona) for winning the 2025 American Sociological Association Award for Public Sociology in International Migration! Way to Represent! sociology.arizona.edu/person/danie...

Way to Represent Angelica Lopez and Humberto Flores and all ASA MFP Scholars!

Way to Represent Andrea Román Alfaro! Latest LC Hot Off the Press! Understanding Violence at the Margins: How Gender and Race Shape the Lives of Women in Puerto Nuevo. www.latcrim.org/hot-off-the-...

Felicidades/Congratulations to now Dr. Carlos Imbrosio Filho who successfully defended his PhD thesis at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL), Portugal. “The Super-constitutional Principle of Anti-Corruption: A Legal Framework for Security Sector Reform” Way to Represent Dr. Carlos Imbrosio Filho!

Elliott Alvarado is the Summer 2025 Latina/o/x Criminology Scholar Spotlight Doctoral Candidate Department of Criminology, Law and Society University of California, Irvine “Immigration and crime around the globe: Key findings across a diverse range of contexts” doi.org/10.4337/9781...

As we enter a new carceral reality, it is essential to help educators learn how to challenge emerging practices/policies affecting marginalized students. Check out this special issue that Julissa Muñiz (UCLA) & Adrian Huerta (USC) led in Theory into Practice - LINK: shorturl.at/DLyxl

Way to Represent Andrea! Román Alfaro, Andrea. 2025. "Making Sense of Violence Through Women’s Experiences: Meaning-Making, Gendering and Racialization at Peru’s Urban Margins.” The British Journal of Criminology, azaf037, 1-17. doi.org/10.1093/bjc/....

Felicidades and Congratulations to NOW Dr. Susana Susy Avalos for successfully defending her dissertation titled “"We're trans, but we're not transitional": Exploring safety, place and space in the lives of transgender individuals in Southeastern Virginia.”!!!

The Black & Brown Collective for Community Solutions to Gun Violence is launching its Training & Mentorship Program. The Collective is seeking up to 19 pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows who are committed to informing solutions to gun violence for a one-year professional development opportunity.

¡Felicidades/Congratulations to soon to be Dr. Theresa Rocha Beardall for being promoted and tenured in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington! Way to Represent!

¡Felicidades/Congratulations to soon to be Dr. Luz E. Robinson “who is now off the market”! Luz has a new Assistant Professor tenure-track position in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina (sc.edu/study/colleg...) Way to Represent!

¡Felicidades/Congratulations to soon to be Dr. Jason Azriel Campos “who is now off the market”! Jason has a new Assistant Professor tenure-track position in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Northern Colorado (www.unco.edu/hss/criminol...) Way to Represent!

¡Felicidades! -Congratulations! Adrian Huerta on your tenure and promotion to Associate Professor! Way to Represent! rossier.usc.edu/faculty-rese...

¡Felicidades! -Congratulations! Way to Represent Jesenia Milagroz Pizarro!

Felicidades! Congratulations! Way to Represent Daniela Oramas Mora (fellow Sun Devil) for winning the 2025 ACJS Michael C. Braswell/Routledge Outstanding Dissertation Award! cls.gmu.edu/people/doram...

Dear LC comunidad y familia, We hope you and all your loved ones are safe and healthy. I also hope you are having a smooth end to the semester/quarter as well having a wonderful start to the holiday season! Melanie Palacios Soderstrom is the Winter 2024 Latina/o/x Criminology Scholar Spotlight!