Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society
Directors
Jennifer Carlson, PhDFounding DirectorBringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in SocietyJennifer Carlson is the Founding Director of the BRIDGS Initiative: Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society. She is a Professor of Sociology at Arizona State Universit…
Alex Young, PhDAssociate Director, Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in SocietyAssociate Teaching Professor and Honors Faculty FellowBarrett, the Honors College at Arizona State UniversityAlex Trimble Young is an Associate Teaching Professor and Honors Faculty Fellow at Barret…
BRIDGS Emergent Scholars: Bringing Research & Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society
Abe Neis-EldridgePhD studentUniversity of KentuckyAbe Neis-Eldridge is a second year Sociology PhD Student at the University of Kentucky; concentrating on political and environmental sociology. His research blends pure and applied scholarship to produce conceptual and practical insight into American…
Allie BondDoctoral CandidateRutgers UniverstiyAllie Bond is a sixth year, clinical psychology doctoral candidate at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers University.Research agenda: The project will use data from the National Violent Death Reporting System to determine demographic a…
Amber BurrellPhD studentUniversity of WashingtonAmber Burrell is a fourth year PhD student at the University of Washington and the Data Analyst at Washington State, Office of Public Defense. Her research around guns is largely centering marginalized experiences and perceptions of guns and gun owners…
Jonas Stark JohnsonPhD candidateJohns Hopkins UniversityJonas Stark Johnson is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Jonas studies artisanal gunsmithing communities in the United States, with an emphasis on the circulation of historical replicas, family heirlooms…
Marquis PalmerDoctoral candidateUniversity of OxfordMarquis Palmer is a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, at the University of Oxford, and a restorative justice practitioner with Common Justice, a survivor-centered restorative justice program that addresses serious vi…
Max LubellDoctoral studentUT AustinMax Lubell is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at UT Austin whose research uncovers how people perceive and navigate threats to community safety. His dissertation project investigates the role of race and place in shaping suburban attitudes toward…
Nathan TiltonPhD studentUC BerkeleyNate Tilton is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at UC Berkeley, a retired Army Sergeant First Class and Federal Air Marshal, a disability advocate, and a lecturer at Cal Poly Humboldt. His research focuses on the intersections of militarization, colonialism,…
Qian LiPhD candidateArizona State UniversityQian Li is a PhD candidate at Arizona State University whose research focuses on communication technology, social media, and misinformation studies. She primarily employs quantitative methods, such as topic modeling and social network analysis. Her dissert…
Brielle Savage
Doctoral Candidate
Rutgers Universtiy
Brielle Savage is a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University with close to ten years of Criminal Justice System experience as both a criminal defense investigator and youth advocate. Her research primarily focuses on firearm violence exposure, firearm…
Callie Cleckner
PhD Candidate
Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington
Callie Cleckner is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Indiana University Bloomington who researches culture and organizations primarily using qualitative methods. Her dissertation examines how gun shows operate as a source of…
Justin Lucas Sola
Incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology & Data Science
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Justin Lucas Sola analyzes trends in American gun ownership with an eye towards how guns affect our interactions. As of Fall '24 he will be an assistant professor of Sociology…
Mary Lee
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine
Mary Lee is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interest revolves around how gun policies and other stru…
Megan Kang
Doctoral Candidate
Princeton University
Megan Kang is a sociology doctoral candidate at Princeton who draws upon mixed methods research to make sense of gun availability, violence, and policy. She's currently working on an ethnographic dissertation of how the presence of guns affects eve…
Melissa Hurtado Nuez
Graduate Student
Global and Sociocultural Studies Department at Florida International University
Melissa Hurtado Nuez is a Cuban-born graduate student in the Global and Sociocultural Studies Department at Florida International University. Using interviews and participant observ…
Ronaldo Monasterio
Doctoral Candidate
Sociology at Northwestern University
Ronaldo Monasterio is a Ph.D. student in the sociology department at Northwestern University. His research examines the social meanings of guns and how the ways we think about race and racial hierarchies affect gun ownership…
Arizona Faculty Affiliates
Adam Cohen, PhD
Professor
Psychology at Arizona State University
Adam Cohen's main research interests fuse cultural, social, and personality psychology. He is interested in how religious differences function as cultural differences, affecting domains including religious identity and motivation, wel…
Bradley Bartos
Assistant Professor
School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona
Bradley J. Bartos is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy. He received his Ph.D. in Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine in…
Christina Colosimo, DO MSAssistant ProfessorTrauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns & Acute Care Surgery at the University of ArizonaChristina Colosimo is the Director of Injury Prevention and Outreach, as well as the Assistant Pediatric Trauma Director at the University of Arizona. She also start…
Danielle Wallace, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Arizona State University
Danielle Wallace is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and an Associate Director at the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at Ari…
Dawn Gilpin, PhD
Associate Professor
Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University
Dawn Gilpin is an associate professor with the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU. She spent more than 15 years working in Italy in various areas of organizational communication a…
James Blasingame, PhD
President's Professor, English
Arizona State University
James Blasingame focuses on young adult literature, Indigenous education, secondary writing instruction, preparing pre-service teachers, and cowboy poetry. He is the executive director of the Assembly on Literature for Ad…
Jesenia Pizarro, PhD
Professor
School of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Arizona State University
Jesenia M. Pizarro is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in Arizona State University. Her research is transdisciplinary in nature and focuses on the proximal event and…
Jill Messing, PhD
Professor
School of Social Work at Arizona State University
Jill Theresa Messing, MSW, PhD is a Professor in the School of Social Work and the Director of the Office of Gender-Based Violence at Arizona State University. Dr. Messing specializes in the development and testing of int…
K. Hazel Kwon, PhDProfessorMIDaS Lab at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State UniversityK. Hazel Kwon is a Professor of Digital Audiences and Founder / Lead Researcher at the MIDaS Lab at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She also ser…
Maeve Wallace, PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of ArizonaMaeve Wallace is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Her re…
Matthew Lapierre, PhD
Associate Professor
Communication at The University of Arizona
Matthew Lapierre is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Arizona. His research examines how media affects health and well-being and is currently focused on the role m…
Michael McQuarrie, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University
Michael McQuarrie is a sociologist at Arizona State University where he directs the Center for Work and Democracy. He is also an Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation. The mai…
Monica McDermott, PhD
Associate Professor
Sociology at the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University
Monica McDermott is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on race, class and identity in the United States.…
Samantha Simon, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Sociology and School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona
Samantha Simon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy and the School of Sociology at The University of Arizona, where she uses ethnogr…
Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor
T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University
Sarah Lindstrom Johnson's work focuses on creating environments where youth can thrive, including mitigating the impact of violence exposure and related traumatic event…
Sun Kim, PhDAssistant ProfessorSchool of Communication at Northern Arizona UniversitySeon-Woo (Sun) Kim (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University. With a background primarily in civic activism, digital marketing, and c…
Susana H HernandezAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Education Psychology, Northern Arizona UniversitySusana Hernandez's research interests are centered on using critical and non-deficit frameworks to study how higher education state and institutional policies may create hostile campus environments fo…
Zhan (Jen) Xu, PhDAssociate ProfessorSchool of Communication at Northern Arizona UniversityZhan (Jen) Xu is an Associate Professor of Strategic Communication at Northern Arizona University. She researches the impact of new technologies, including AI, VR, and AR, on perceptions and behaviors related…