You’re the s**t, shoot your shot! In this episode we speak with Professors Alondra Garza, Sadaf Hashimi, and Thad Johnson about navigating the academic job market–from prepping materials, to the initial interview and job talk, job offers and negotiations, and finally that summer between graduating and starting your new job.
Alondra Garza received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University in May 2022. She is an incoming assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida and a member of the Violence Against Women Faculty Research Cluster. Her research interests include victimology, violence against women, and the criminal legal system response to victimization. In 2021, she was selected as a Ruth D. Peterson Fellow by the American Society of Criminology. Her work has appeared in Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Violence Against Women, among others.
Thaddeus Johnson, a former ranking law enforcement official in Memphis, TN, is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology at Georgia State University. He received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice & Criminology from Georgia State University in 2020. His current research focuses on police policy and innovations, urban violence, crime control, and racially disparate justice outcomes. He is the author of numerous articles and a book entitled Deviance among Physicians: Fraud, Violence, and the Power to Prescribe.
Sadaf Hashimi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University in 2021 and her M.A. from the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Currently, her research focuses on understanding how our peers, be it our networks of family, friends, or colleagues, shape our criminal trajectories, including criminal group and gang involvement, criminal recidivism, and organizational and institutional misconduct. Her most recent work has been funded by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research and has appeared in outlets including the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Criminology & Public Policy.
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Get in touch with Alondra:
Alondra.Garza AT ucf.edu // Twitter
Get in touch with Sadaf:
shashimi AT unomaha.edu // Twitter
Get in touch with Thad:
tjohnson230 AT gsu.edu // Twitter