The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Tracey Shollenberger

Graduate Student in Sociology and Social Policy

Biographical Note

Tracey Shollenberger earned her bachelors degree in administration of justice from Penn State in 2002. She started her career as a high school teacher in Baltimore, MD. She then worked as a research associate at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center in Washington, DC. At Urban, she served as project manager for Returning Home-Texas, a longitudinal study of prisoner reentry, and for two action-research partnerships, including an NIJ-funded project aimed at reducing violence in correctional facilities. Her current work centers broadly around inequality in public education and in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Specific topics include the relationship between school quality and crime, trends in juvenile justice policy, and the impact of incarceration on children and families.

02/15/2012
Research Interests
Juvenile and criminal justice, public education, inequality, research methods
Previous Degrees
BS in Admin of Justice and Spanish, Penn State University (2002)
Teaching Experience
USW 31 American Society and Public Policy Teaching Fellow
Sociology 128 Models of Social Science Research Teaching Fellow

 

 

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