Our Team
Meet the faculty and students working on public opinion research.
Lab Director
Leah C. Butler, PhD
Research Areas:
Public Opinion of Correctional Policy; Corrections; Intimate Partner Violence; Sexual Violence
Faculty Affiliates
Teresa C. Kulig, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Human Trafficking, Public Opinion, Victimology, Crime Prevention, Women and Crime
Erin Kearns, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Terrorism, Community-Police Relations, Media Depictions of Terrorism, Public Perceptions of Terrorism
Justin Nix, PhD
Dist. Associate Professor
Research Areas: Procedural Justice, Police Legitimacy, Officer Use of Discretion, Police Shootings
Amy L. Anderson, PhD
Professor
Research Areas: Social Contexts, Juvenile Delinquency, Criminological Theory, Public Perceptions of CJ Policies
Sadaf Hashimi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Social Network Analysis, Peer Influence and Crime, CJ Policy, Incarceration and Reentry
Graduate Students
Brian Gildea
Research Assistant
PhD Student
Emily Meinert
Lab Coordinator
PhD Student
Taylor Claxton
PhD Student
Lexi Goodijohn
MA Student