Prof. Jennifer Carlson, Director of Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society, contributed an essay to the Rockefeller Institute on the financial fall-out of surviving gun violence, featuring forthcoming research with Catherine Burgess of the University of Arizona. 

May 29, 2024

The divisiveness of today's gun debate isn't inevitable--if we dare to have a different kind of gun debate. BRIDGS Director Jennifer Carlson weighs in with Prof. Dan Semenza (Rutgers) in this piece from Starts with Us on citizen solutions.

In a new Aeon essay, Megan Kang (PhD candidate at Princeton University and BRIDGS Emergent Fellow) analyzes the present-day prevalence of guns in US society by looking to 20th century history--and drawing on a unique dataset developed by Kang and her colleague Elizabeth Rasich.

Professor Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, a faculty affiliate of BRIDGS, is co-organizing an upcoming symposium on June 4 that puts a spotlight on trauma-informed education. 

Congratulations to BRIDGS Emergent Fellow Justin Sola, who successfully defended his dissertation at UC Irvine!

His work examines gun ownership, criminal justice and inequality, with a special focus on how neoliberalism shapes these dynamics. In Fall 2024, he joins UNC-Chapel Hill as an assistant professor of Sociology and Data Science & Society. 

Dr. Thatcher Combs, BRIDGS postdoc and expert in LGBTQ gun ownership, was recently quoted in a story by the Washington Post. 

From the WaPo story:

BRIDGS Affiliate Dawn Gilpin publishes new book on art and sexual violence with co-editor and co-author Sally Kitch.

Jennifer Carlson will be participating in The Oxford Literary Festival on Saturday, March 23, 2024 from 2-3pm at the Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre.

Jennifer Carlson is a panelist at the Tucson Festival of Books event held on Saturday, March 9 from 10-11am in the Integrated Learning Center Room 150.

Gun Violence: The US Scourge.

How did guns invade our society? Explore the effect of guns on our minds and sense of safety, how guns impact our criminal justice system and how law enforcement deals with gun use.

October 16, 2023

Dialogue Vanderbilt hosted a public forum as part of the campus-wide Free Speech Week and the Open Dialogue Visiting Fellows program, focused on the national gun debate.