Our Scholars

The Justice Collaboratory brings together renowned scholars and researchers of diverse theoretical and methodological orientations at Yale University and elsewhere to work on issues related to institutional reform and policy innovation.

Our membership is active and has been doing systemic work in these areas for decades.

Executive Committee | Staff | Members | Affiliated Scholars

Executive Committee

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Phillip Atiba Solomon f.k.a Goff

Carl I. Hovland Professor of African American Studies and Professor of Psychology

Elizabeth K. Hinton

Professor of History, African American Studies and Professor of Law

Tracey L. Meares

Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory

Caroline Nobo

Research Scholar in Law and Executive Director of the Justice Collaboratory

Tom R. Tyler

Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory

Sudhir Venkatesh

Williams B. Ransford Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Staff

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Molly Aunger

Program Coordinator

Stephane D. Andrade

Senior Research Associate

Jorge X. Camacho

Clinical Lecturer in Law and Policing, Law, and Policy Director of the Justice Collaboratory

Michael Bochkur Dratver

Postbaccalaureate Fellow

Dana Greene

Research Scholar in Law and Membership Director of the Justice Collaboratory

Matt Katsaros

Director of the Social Media Governance Initiative

Jessica Pardim Araujo

Postbaccalaureate Fellow

Beth Parker

Director of Communications

Caroline Nobo

Research Scholar in Law and Executive Director of the Justice Collaboratory

Jania Stewart-James

Associate Research Scholar

Kathryn Thomas

Postdoctoral Fellow, SEICHE Center for Health and Justice

Trace C. Vardsveen

Postdoctoral Fellow in Law and Social Science

Members

Members of the Justice Collaboratory are an eminent group of nationally celebrated scholars representing fifteen academic disciplines. Their distinguished award-winning bodies of work, continually recognized for significant contributions to their respective fields, demonstrate a steadfast commitment to redress injustices and build vibrant safe communities. Collectively, JC members comprise a learned pluralistic community dedicated to building an equitable democratic criminal legal system through serious scholarship, innovative research, and groundbreaking science.

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Arielle Baskin-Sommers

Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry

Monica C. Bell

Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Counselor to the Dean

Dwayne Betts

Founder and Director of Freedom Reads

Rodrigo Canales

Kelli Questrom Associate Professor in Management Associate Professor, Management & Organizations, Boston University

BJ Casey

The Christina L. Williams Professor of Neuroscience, Barnard College

Fiona Doherty

Deputy Dean for Experiential Education and Clinical Professor of Law

James Forman Jr.

J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law

Miriam Gohara

Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization

Benjamin Justice

Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration - Rutgers Graduate School of Education

Issa Kohler-Hausmann

Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology

Marisol Orihuela

Clinical Associate Professor of Law

Andrew V. Papachristos

Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research, and the Faculty Director of Corners: the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science

Jennifer Richeson

Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale University

Sarita Schoenebeck

Associate Professor in the School of Information, University of Michigan

Jason Stanley

Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

Emily Wang

Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences); Director, SEICHE Center for Health and Justice

Vesla Weaver

Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Gideon Yaffe

Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence

Howard V. Zonana

Emeritus Professor

Affiliated Scholars

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Vitor Blotta

Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Publishing, Communication and Arts School, University of São Paulo

Ben Bradford

Professor of Global City Policing at the Department of Security and Crime Science, and Director of the JDI Institute for Global City Policing University College London

Samira Bueno

Executive-Director of Brazilian Forum on Public Safety

Alexandra Cox

Lecturer Department of Sociology, University of Essex

David De Cremer

Provost Chair at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School

Geraldine Downey

Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Columbia University

Yael Granot

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Smith College

Larisa Heiphetz Solomon

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Columbia University

Jonathan Jackson

Professor of Social Research Methods, London School of Economics

Jisu Kim

Assistant Professor at Singapore Institute of Technology

Joscha Legewie

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Lorraine Mazerolle

Professor of Criminology, School of Social Science, University of Queensland

Avital Mentoviz

The School of Criminology, University of Haifa

Kristina Murphy

Professor of Criminology at Griffith University, and Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences

Thomas O’Brien

Research Scholar

Lisa Puglisi, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Core Faculty, Yale Program in Addiction Medicine, Yale University

Joseph Seering

Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST

Carla Shedd

Associate Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University

Michael Sierra-Arévalo

Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Giane Silvestre

Post-Doctoral Researcher at The Center for the Study of Violence, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Rick J. Trinkner

Associate Professor, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice (CCJ), Arizona State University