Former graduate student Ella Siegrist and Lisa Broidy have an article titled “How jailed mothers envision future motherhood in the context of state intrusion: Fawn, flight, or fight” forthcoming in a special issue of Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice focused on gender, intersectionality, crime, and justice.

Lisa Broidy and her colleagues in Australia have a forthcoming article in Health & Justice titled “Examining the Timing of Mental Health Contacts Across Female Offending Trajectories.”

Kiwoong Park and a co-author published an article titled “Examining Associations Between Community Drug-Related Exposure and Receiving Treatment Among Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) in the U.S.,” in the Journal of Substance Use.

Https://doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2025.2494527 

 

Owen Whooley's book, An Unruly Mess: Community Mental Health in Crisis, has received a contract from the University of Chicago Press. The book is slated for publication in their Fall 2026 catalog.

 

Assata Zerrai’s new book was released April 2025, titled, Black Feminist Interventions to Decolonize the Westernized University.

 

Assata Zerrai is serving as lead guest editor for an issue of Social Sciences titled, “Restorative Justice Practices within Higher Education and the Arts: Addressing Complex Legacies of Harm”.

Kiwoong Park, together with Lisa L. Losada-Rojas (UNM Civil Engineering), Alexander Webb (UNM Architecture and Planning), and other UNM colleagues, submitted a Grand Challenges Level 1 application, Safer Streets, that has been selected for funding for the 2025–2026 fiscal year.

 

Graduate student Bianca Ruiz-Negron has been awarded the Crossing Latinidades Mellon Fellowship for the academic year 2025-2026. She was also selected for the Crossing Latinidades Summer Institute in Latino/a/x/e Humanities Studies Methodologies and Theories at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).

Lisa Broidy has been selected as a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. “This designation is given to recognize scholarly contributions to criminology and distinction in the discipline.” 

Assata Zerrai is serving as the 2025 Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting Program Chair, August 8-10, Chicago, Illinois for SSSP's 75th Anniversary.

Jack Thomas and his research on dating apps and online dating is featured on a recent episode of UNM’s podcast   "It's (Probably) Not Rocket Science" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Also, on our website: https://podcast.unm.edu/episode/algorithm-matchmaker-online-dating-leading-to-more-diverse-couples/

 

Rich Wood shared his reflections on Pope Francis with NBC news and an NPR station in the LA area: 

NBC News: https://f.io/xsLCwWmC and then enter passphrase 042225

KCRW in Santa Monica/Los Angeles, California: https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/catholic-church-deportation-marie-davidson/pope-francis-death

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