# Crime & Punishment ## expand\_more [### Bernadette Blashill ](/people/bernadette-blashill) Doctoral Student in Sociology Research Interests: Care and Caregiving, Cultural and Political Sociology, Law and Society, Mental Health, Social Policy Bernadette Blashill is a doctoral student in Sociology at Harvard University. Her research investigates why and how people care for... ![Blashill headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-06/Blashil%20headshot.jpg?itok=myoqXTWj) [### Hannah Craig ](/people/hannah-craig) Doctoral Student in Sociology Research Interests: Crime and Punishment, Political Sociology, Organizational Efficiency, Bureaucratic Discretion, Public Policy, Public Opinion Hannah Craig is a PhD student in Sociology at Harvard. Originally from the metro Detroit area, she received... ![Hannah Craig photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/sociology/files/craig_hannah_photo.jpg?itok=fvPgfPJY) [### Kseniya Dzhala ](/people/kseniya-dzhala) Doctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy Research Interests: Housing, Culture, Social Movements, Social Policy, Relational Inequality, Qualitative Methods Kseniya Dzhala is a doctoral student in Sociology and Social Policy and a Stone PhD Scholar. She received her Bachelor's degree in Sociology... ![Kseniya Dzhala](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-08/Dzhala%20Kseniya%20headshot.jpg?itok=5s4i18jI) [### Alexandra Gibbons ](/people/alexandra-gibbons) Doctoral Student in Sociology Research Interests: Crime and Punishment; Community and Urban Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Immigration; Class; Inequality; Quantitative Methods Alexandra (Alex) Gibbons is a PhD student in Sociology and a Presidential Scholar in the Graduate School of... ![Alex Gibbons](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Alexandra%20Gibbons.JPG?itok=-EJwRcyU) [### GeorgePatrick (George) J. Hutchins ](/people/george-hutchins) [georgepatrick\_hutchins@hms.harvard.edu](mailto:georgepatrick_hutchins@hms.harvard.edu)Doctoral Student in Sociology Research Interests: Crime, incarceration, carceral logic, racial inequity, health and society, medicine, mixed-methods GeorgePatrick (George) Hutchins (he/him) is a Doctoral Student in Sociology and MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School. He graduated... ![George Hutchins](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/sociology/files/hutchins_george_photo.jpg?itok=YqCfM9pU) [### Andrew Byrne Keefe ](/people/andrew-andy-keefe) Doctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy Research Interests: Inequality; Sociology of Punishment; Criminal Law and Procedure; Political Economy; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Social Theory. Andrew Keefe is a PhD candidate in sociology and social policy and a third-year law student at Harvard... ![Andrew Byrne Keefe](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/sociology/files/keefeandrew2023resize.jpg?itok=VjgKFKft) [### Evan Cliff MacKay ](/people/evan-cliff-mackay) Doctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy Research Interests: Inequality and Social Policy; Civic participation and good government; Crime, deviance, restoration, and punishment; Social stratification; Race and Ethnicity; Gender; Discrimination; Geography; Poverty; Quantitative Methods Evan... ![Evan Mackay](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/sociology/files/photo_cropped_evan_mackay_bricks.jpg?itok=T6clfu5-) [### Claudia Nmai ](/people/claudia-nmai) Doctoral Student in Sociology Research Interests: Crime and Punishment; Law; Culture; Social Stratification and Inequality; Socialization; Race and Ethnicity; Immigration; Qualitative Methods Claudia Nmai is a PhD student in Sociology. Broadly, she is interested in the criminal legal... ![Claudia Nmai](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-08/Nmai_Claudia_headshot.jpg?itok=iN0s0M61) [### Saúl Ramírez ](/people/sa%C3%BAl-ram%C3%ADrez)Doctoral Student in Sociology Research Interests: Crime and Punishment; Immigration; Inequality and Stratification; Poverty; Qualitative Methods; Race and Ethnicity; Social Policy; Sociology of Law Saúl Ramírez is a PhD student in Sociology. He graduated with a B.A. from the... ![Saúl Ramírez](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/sociology/files/ramirez_saul_july_2019.jpg?itok=98hjSZeS) [### Nefara Riesch ](/people/nefara-riesch) Doctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy Research Interests: Criminal justice policy, policing, quantitative methods Nefara Riesch is a PhD student in Sociology and Social Policy. Her work examines policing and criminal legal system policy. Prior to her doctoral studies, Nefara worked in policy... ![Nefara Riesch](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/sociology/files/riesch_photo_sociology_website.jpg?itok=2T9-oVvl) [### L. Ash Smith ](/people/l-ash-smith)Doctoral Student in Sociology Ash Smith is a doctoral student in Sociology, with a J.D. from Harvard Law School. ![Ash Smith](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/sociology/files/ashsmith_2020_smaller2.jpg?itok=LcGl2st4) [### Sebastian Spitz ](/people/sebastian-spitz) Doctoral Student in Sociology Research Interests: Crime and punishment, quantitative methods, comparative sociology, sociology of law, race Sebastian Spitz is a PhD student in Sociology. He graduated from Bard College in 2017 with a degree in sociology, writing his senior project on... ![Sebastian Spitz](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/sociology/files/spitz.jpg?itok=HvqutrAz)