#  Kristina Paige Brant 

 

 



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 email <kmb8133@psu.edu> 

 



 

(Sociology, November 2021)  
*Thesis Title:* In the Epicenter: Surveilling, Supporting, and Punishing Families amid the Rural Opioid Crisis  
*Committee:* Mario Luis Small (Chair), Jocelyn Viterna, and William Julius Wilson  
*Initial Placement:* [Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Pennsylvania State University](https://aese.psu.edu/directory/kmb8133)

 

 

 





 

 

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