Honors & Awards

2024 Outstanding PhD Alumni Award

UofSC Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Awarded to doctoral program graduates for their outstanding academic and non-academic achievements in the field.

2021 Outstanding Young Experimental Criminologist

American Society of Criminology - Division of Experimental Criminology
Recognizes exceptional early-career scholarship.

2021 Best Paper Award for Later-Career Scholars

Criminology & Public Policy
For the paper Comparing 911 and emergency hotline calls for domestic violence in seven cities: What happened when people started staying home due to COVID-19? with Tara Richards, Scott M ourtgos, and Ian Adams.

2020 Early Career Award

American Society of Criminology - Division of Policing
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Recognizes outstanding scholarly contributions to the field of policing by someone who has received their Ph.D. within the last five years.

2019 Outstanding Paper Award

Midwestern Criminal Justice Association
For the paper Disparity does not mean bias: Making sense of observed racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings with multiple benchmarks with Brandon Tregle and Geoff Alpert.

LEADS Academics - Class of 2019

National Institute of Justice
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Recognizes early-career academics advancing police science through data and research.

2017 Outstanding Reviewer for Policing: An International Journal

Emerald Literati Awards
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The editor and Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of each journal select a winner of the “Outstanding Reviewer Award” from the previous year’s volume, based on timeliness, quality, and depth of reviews provided.