Law and Legal Studies Social Science Experts in Race and Ethnic Inequalities: Law and Legal Studies Heading link Copy link Dr. Peter Ibarra | Criminology, Law, and Justice criminological theory; race, class, gender, and the law; surveillance and society methods: practice of qualitative methods, with particular emphasis on ethnographic fieldwork Dr. Ashley Muchow | Criminology, Law, and Justice causes and consequences of social inequality and the role of policy in alleviating or aggravating these disparities Dr. Julian Thompson | Criminology, Law, Justice and legal practices, punishment, mental health, inequality, and therapeutic governance; legal, social, therapeutic, and material realities methods: qualitative methodologies 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. Rahim Kurwa | Sociology intersection of race, policing, and residential segregation, fair housing law Dr. Patrisia Macías-Rojas | Sociology race; migration and mobility; political sociology; borders; globalization; sociology of punishment; law and society; ethnography; comparative historical methods methods: comparative historical methods, archival and ethnographic research