Law, Legislation, and Public Policy Social Science Experts in Institutions and Policies: Law, Legislation, and Public Policy Heading link Copy link Dr. Zachary McDowell | Communication access and advocacy in digitally mediated peer production spaces methods: engaged, community-based, and transformative practices Dr. Alana Gunn | Criminology, Law, Justice community organizing experiences working with individuals who navigate criminal legal involvement, as well as with the agencies charged with supporting their reintegration process, multi-level experiences of stigmatization health and well-being Dr. Lisa Frohmann | Criminology, Law, Justice violence against women, sociology of legal practices and processes, organizational decision-making, and qualitative methods methods: participant photography, community education Dr. Gregory Matoesian | Criminology, Law, Justice integration of language and gesture in the construction and co-construction of legal context Dr. Ashley Muchow | Criminology, Law, Justice causes and consequences of social inequality and the role of policy in alleviating or aggravating these disparities Dr. Julian Thompson | Criminology, Law, Justice law and legal practices, punishment, mental health, inequality, and therapeutic governance methods: qualitative methodologies Dr. John Tauras | Economics government regulation of unhealthy behaviors including smoking, drinking, and illicit drug use, impact of public policy on adolescent obesity and physical activity Dr. Alexandra Filindra | Political Science American immigration policy, immigration decisions, racial prejudice and its effects on policy preferences, public opinion, political psychology and survey research Dr. Kevin Lyles | Political Science American government, constitutional law, judicial process, African-American legal history, gender and law Dr. Evan McKenzie | Political Science urban politics; public law; American politics Dr. Christopher Mooney | Political Science U .S. state politics and policy, with special focus on legislative decisionmaking, morality policy, and legislative term limits Dr. Dick Simpson | Political Science (emeritus) Chicago politics, urban politics, elections, state and local politics, neighborhood empowerment, public corruption Dr. Jennifer Jones | Sociology immigration, multiracial population, and shifting social relations between and within racial groups methods: case study research Dr. Atef Said | Sociology politics, revolutions, and social change, spatio-temporalities of revolution methods: ethnographic and historical data assessment