GRANT FUNDING

Arnold Ventures (2023 – 2025): “Criminal Sentencing and Early Prison Release Reforms: Lessons from New Jersey” (with Dr. Robert Apel, Rutgers University) (as Co-I) ($734,030)

Social and Racial Justice Award, Rutgers University Research Council (2023 – 2025): “Judicial “Remorse Bias” and the Effects of Social Cognition in Perpetuating Sentencing Inequalities for Racially and Socially Marginalized Defendants” (as PI) ($13,930) 

Seed Grant in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Mississippi (2023 – 2024): “Building a Natural Language Processing Framework for Evaluating the Coherence of Scientific Research and Judicial Decision Making” (with Dr. Brian Boutwell and Dr. Thomas Smith, University of Mississippi) (as External Consultant) ($30,000)

Strategic Priorities Fund Grant, United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) (2023): “Neurolaw in the Courtroom: Comparative Perspectives on Vulnerable Defendants – Book Launch Event” (with Dr. Hannah Wishart, University of Sunderland) (as Co-PI) ($1,239)

Rubicon Grant, Dutch Research Council (NWO) (2022 – 2024): “Lost in Translation: An Examination of Biobehavioral Science in American & Dutch Courts” (with Dr. Mia Thomaidou, Rutgers University) (as Co-PI/Post-Doctoral Supervisor) ($156,549)

International Collaborative Research Grant, Rutgers University Global Grants (2022 – 2024): “Honesty as a Communicative Tool in Punishment: A Comparative Pilot Study of Judges in the U.S. and Australia” (with Dr. Melissa de Vel-Palumbo, Flinders University) (as PI) ($8,000)

Drug Policy Research Grant, Drug Enforcement and Policy Center at the Ohio State University School of Law (2022 – 2023): “Examining U.S. Public Support for Punitive Drug Sentencing Policies Using Two National Experiments” (as PI) ($32,571)

Arnold Ventures (2021 – 2023): “Technical Support for New Jersey Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission” (with Dr. Robert Apel, Rutgers University) (as Co-I) ($1,121,768)

Arnold Ventures (2020 – 2021): “New Jersey Commission on Sentencing and Criminal Disposition Evaluation of NJ-S2519” (with Dr. Todd Clear, Rutgers University) (as Co-I) ($29,613)

Early Career Grant-in-Aid, American Psychology-Law Society (2021 – 2022): “When Bad Things Happen to Rotten People: Tolerance for Incidental Suffering of Criminal Offenders” (with Dr. Melissa de Vel-Palumbo, Flinders University) (as Co-PI) ($4,939)

Newark Public Safety Collaborative (2020): “Emotional and Analytical Perceptions of Risk: A Survey Experiment” (with Dr. Joel Caplan, Rutgers University) (as PI) ($3,000) 

Arnold Ventures (2020 – 2022): “Pre-trial Court Appearance: Colorado Court Notification Study” (with Dr. Lonnie Schaible, University of Colorado Denver, and Dr. Greg Ridgeway, University of Pennsylvania) (Award received but not disbursed due to policy changes making data collection infeasible) (as Co-PI) ($376,402)

New Jersey Center on Gun Violence Research, Rutgers University (2020 – 2021): “How Characteristics of Gun Violence Affect Support for U.S. Gun Regulation” (with Dr. Michael Sierra-Arevalo, University of Texas-Austin) (as PI) ($61,522) 

Rutgers University Research Council Award (2019 – 2021): “Childhood Trauma as a Mitigating Factor in Criminal Sentencing” (as PI) ($2,050)

Genetics and Human Agency Initiative Junior Investigator Grant, UVA/John Templeton Foundation (2016 – 2019): “Genetic Essentialist Thinking Toward Offenders with Mental Disorders and Potential Influences on Punishment” (as PI) ($22,500)

MacArthur Foundation Juvenile Justice Network Grant, American Psychology-Law Society (2017): “Juvenile Judges’ Perceptions of Juvenile Psycho-social and Neurological Development in Competency Evaluations” (as PI) ($1,549)

Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid, American Psychology-Law Society (2016): “Lay Attitudes Toward and Stigmatization of Mental Disorders and Potential Extra-legal Influences on Sentencing and Punishment Preferences” (as PI) ($735)

Dissertation Grant in Applied Law & Psychology, American Academy of Forensic Psychology (2016): “Jury-eligible Public Attitudes Toward Biological Risk Factors for Criminal Behavior and Implications for Capital Sentencing” (as PI) ($1,100)

 Fontaine Society Summer Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania (2015): “Educator of the Court: The Role of the Expert Witness in Cases Involving Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)” (as PI) ($490)