Awards

Associate Professor Dan Mears has been awarded tenure and Carter Hay has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the FSU College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Mears joined the faculty in 2005 from the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center. He received his Ph.D from the University of Texas. Mears’ main research interests are crime and delinquency theory, juvenile and criminal justice, and crime policy.

Professor Vanessa Barker, Ph.D., has received a one-year fellowship from the Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA). Each year, LAPA brings to Princeton five or six world-class experts on the law. Drawn from law schools, the social sciences, the humanities, and from the world of policy-making and legal practice, the fellows are in full-time residence at Princeton for an entire academic year. During her fellowship, Barker will teach a graduate seminar on punishment and society and conduct research for a new book on comparative penal sanctions in Europe.

The University has named Professor Ted Chiricos, Ph.D., the William Julius Wilson Professor of Criminology in recognition of his excellence in research, teaching, and service. Chiricos’s studies on the fear of crime have been recognized as the most influential in the field, and his research on deterrence changed the way criminologists approached this major and controversial subject matter.