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  • Portrait of D. Michael Applegarth.
    6/17/25

    D. Michael Applegarth

    Assistant Professor of Social Work

    Expertise: Criminal legal system, mental illness and crime, community supervision

    Phone: 716-645-1228

    Email: dapplega@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Allison Dwyer Emory.
    6/17/25

    Allison Dwyer Emory

    Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology 

    Expertise: families and the legal system, mass incarceration, jails, collateral consequences of criminal justice contact

    Phone: 716-645-8464

    Email: ademory@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Alexandra Harrington.
    6/17/25

    Alexandra Harrington

    Director, Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic; Director, Innocence and Justice Project

    Expertise: criminal law, sentencing, parole, clemency, post-conviction, re-sentencing and sentence review, second-look, prisons / mass incarceration, constitutional law

    Phone: 716-645-2108

    Email: aharr@buffalo.edu

  • Head shot of Erin Hatton, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ labor, workforce and gig economy expert.
    6/17/25

    Erin Hatton

    Professor of Sociology

    Expertise: labor movements, gig economy, job security, coerced labor, pay for college athletes, minimum wage, workfare

    Phone: 716-645-8476

    Email: eehatton@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Veronica Horowitz.
    6/17/25

    Veronica Horowitz

    Assistant Profess of Sociology and Criminology

    Expertise: American criminal punishment, gender in criminal punishment, monetary sanctions, dual debt, child support debt, mercy, executive clemency, commutation, corrections, prisons, incarceration, and international comparative work on Scandinavian corrections. 

    Phone: 716-645-8471

    Email: vhorowit@buffalo.edu

  • Head shot of Jessica Kruger, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ faculty expert on consumption and addictive behaviors.
    6/17/25

    Jessica Kruger

    Clinical Associate Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior

    Expertise: cannabis, binge-watching, consumption, addictive behaviors, substance use and abuse, health behavior decision-making

    Phone: 716-829-6748

    Email: jskruger@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Mary Nell Trautner.
    6/17/25

    Mary Nell Trautner 

    Director, UB College in Prison Program

    Expertise: education in prison, juvenile justice, social justice, gender, sexuality, gender in the workplace, medical malpractice

    Phone: 716-645-8477

    Email: trautner@buffalo.edu