Kendra Clark

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Research Assistant Professor

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Suite 4100
Fairfax,VA22030

Phone: 620-344-0577

Email: KClark45@gmu.edu

EDUCATION

2021
Ph.D. Sociology

Dissertationtitle:BreakingoutofPrisonCulture,OrCultureBreaking outof Prison?:UnderstandingConvictCodeEndorsementduring Incarceration and Post-Release

DissertationCommittee:Dr.DavidPyrooz(chair),Dr.KyleThomas, Dr.Michael Radelet, Dr. Ryan Masters, and Dr. Christine Visher
ofColoradoBoulder, Boulder,CO

2018
M.A. Sociology

Thesistitle:Rethinking Prisonization:Alongitudinal investigationofadherence to the convict code across stages of incarceration

ThesisChair:Dr.DavidPyrooz

ofColoradoBoulder, Boulder,CO

2014
B.S.Sociology,emphasis inCriminalJustice, SummaCum Laude

B.S.Psychology,SummaCumLaude

Baker鶹,BaldwinCity,KS

PROFESSIONALAPPOINTMENTS

2021-Present
SeniorResearch Associate
CenterforAdvancing CorrectionalExcellence(ACE!), GeorgeMason

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Criminological Theory
Incarceration
Quantitative Methodology
Deviant Cultures/Subcultures
Reentry and Recidivism
Gangs and Criminal Network

REFEREEDARTICLES

ForthcomingMitchell, Meghan M., Chantal Fahmy, Kendra J. Clark, and Pyrooz, David C. “Non-randomstudyattrition:Assessingcorrectiontechniquesandthemagnitude of bias in a longitudinal study of reentry from prison” Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Clark,KendraJ.,Mitchell,MeghanM.,Fahmy,Chantal,Pyrooz,DavidC.,& Decker, Scott H. InternationalJournalofOffenderTherapy andComparativeCriminology

Pyrooz,DavidC.,KendraJ.Clark,Jennifer J.Tostlebe,ScottH.Decker,and Erin A. Orrick. “” JournalofResearchinCrimeandDelinquency

2019
Fahmy,Chantal,KendraJ.Clark,MeghanM.Mitchell,DavidC.Pyrooz,and Scott H. Decker
“” SociologicalMethodsandResearch

UNDER REVIEW

Clark,KendraJ.ٳ󾱲԰쾱ԲPrisonization:ALongitudinalInvestigationofAdherencetothe Convict Code Across Stages of Incarceration”

BOOK CHAPTER

Clark,KendraJ.,Pyrooz,DavidC.,andRanda,Ryan(2018).".” The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education: Forms, Factors, and Preventions (2018): 203-225.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2017-2020
GraduateResearchFellow,NationalScienceFoundation ($138,000)

2019
GraduateStatisticsAdvisorfortheComputingandResearchDepartmentatthe Institute of Behavioral Sciences

2015-2019
Gangsonthe street,gangsinprison:Their nature,interrelationship,control,and re-entry (The Lone Star Project)

  • Funding:TheNationalInstitute ofJustice,Research onGangsandGang Violence (2014-MU-CX-0111). $840,807
  • Role:ResearchAssistant(Drs.ScottDeckerandDavidPyrooz,Principal Investigators)
    • Managed over 5,000 incoming contacts from research participants
    • Initiatedandmanagedincentivepaymentsforover1,000 completed interviews
    • Completed20phoneinterviewsand4prisonface-to-face interviews
    • Cleaned final data set for 3 follow-up waves of data
    • Managed data submission for ICPSR
    • Collaboration with multi-institutional research team

2017-2018
Understanding the Use and Effects of Restrictive Housing in the California DepartmentofCorrectionsandRehabilitationinthePostAshkerv.Governorof California Era

  • Funding:The Charles Koch Foundation
  • Role:ProjectManager(Drs.DavidPyrooz,RyanLabrecque,andBert Useem, Principal Investigators)
    • Assisted in developing a survey instrument
    • Assisted with research design and IRB submission

Continuityandchange inprotectiveandriskfactors amongparticipantsinthe Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver (GRID): A pilot project

  • Funding: City of Denver ($20,000)
  • Role:ResearchAssistant(Dr.DavidPyrooz,Principal Investigator)
  • Develop survey instrument for program evaluation of GRID
  • Assistinresearchdesign ofexploratorystudy ongangintervention and desistance

2012-2014
Inside-outPrisonExchangeattheTopeka CorrectionalFacility,Baker

  • Generated policy proposals concerning social identity and restorative justicebased offlivedexperiencesofincarceratedwomen tobepresented to facility administration
  • Createdaresearchprospectusconcerningmentalhealth treatmentinside female correctional facilities

2013-2014
UndergraduateResearchAssistantforDr.CarrieCoward-Bucher,Baker

  • Datacleaningoflarge,longitudinaldatabase
  • Use the National Longitudinal Study ofAdolescent Health to investigate therelationshipbetween siblingrelationshipandrunningbehaviorsamong adolescent

HONORSANDAWARDS

2021
ResearchFunding Award,DepartmentofSociology,CUBoulder($119.88)

2020
Research Funding Award, Department of Sociology, CU Boulder ($1500)

2019
Ben Steiner Excellence in Corrections Student Paper Award, Division on Corrections and Sentencing,American Society of Criminology ($500)

3rdPlace,PosterAward,InstitutionofBehavioralScience GraduateResearch Symposium, CU Boulder, Poster Title “Gang Membership and recidivism:A longitudinal study of offenders in Texas” ($50)

GraduateStudentPublishingWorkshop,JournalofResearchinCrimeand Delinquency (JRCD) ($500)

FoundationScholarshipRecipient,ZetaTauAlphaFraternity ($5,000)

ResearchFunding Award,DepartmentofSociology,CUBoulder($843)

2018
2nd Place, Poster Award, Institution of Behavioral Science Graduate Research Symposium,CUBoulder, PosterTitleٳ󾱲԰쾱ԲPrisonization:Alongitudinal investigation of adherence to the convict code across stages of incarceration” ($75)

FoundationScholarshipRecipient,ZetaTauAlphaFraternity($5,000)

AlumnaeEducationalAward,BoulderAreaAlumnaePanhellenic($1,000)

ResearchFunding Award,DepartmentofSociology,CUBoulder($216)

TravelGrant,DepartmentofSociology,CUBoulder($500)

2017
GraduateResearch FellowshipAward,National ScienceFoundation($138,000)

FoundationScholarshipRecipient,ZetaTauAlphaFraternity($5,000)

TravelGrant,DepartmentofSociology,CUBoulder($300)

TravelGrant,DepartmentofSociology,CUBoulder($500)

SummerResearch FundingAward,DepartmentofSociology,CUBoulder($750)

2016
Foundation Scholarship Recipient, Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity ($9,000)

ResearchFunding Award,DepartmentofSociology,CUBoulder($300)

SummerResearch FundingAward,DepartmentofSociology,CUBoulder($750)

2015
Learning Community Fellowship on Retention in Undergraduate Statistics

Courses,TeachingInstituteforGraduateEducationResearch,GraduateTeaching Program, CU Boulder ($500)

FoundationScholarshipRecipient,ZetaTauAlphaFraternity($5,000)

TEACHING INTERESTS

CriminologicalTheory, Corrections,ReentryandRecidivism,QuantitativeMethodology, Research Design, and Introduction to Sociology

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

GRADUATETEACHINGASSISTANT

DepartmentofSociology,鶹ofColorado Boulder

2019
SOCY5111(Spring): DataI(GraduateStatistics);Instructor:Dr.Jason Boardman 2018 SOCY2061 (Fall): Introduction to Social Statistics; Instructor: Dr. Ryan Masters

  • Instructed three weekly recitation classes (85 students total)
  • Averagestudentratings: Course4.2/6,Instructor(TA)5.2/6

2017 SOCY4004(Spring): Special TopicsinCriminology;Instructor:Dr.David Pyrooz 2016 SOCY 4014 (Fall): Criminology; Instructor: Dr. Michael Radelet

SOCY1001(Spring):IntroductiontoSociology;Instructor:Dr.TimothyWadsworth

  • Instructed three weekly recitation classes (96 students total)
  • Averagestudent ratings:Course4.9/6,Instructor(TA)5.4/6 2015SOCY4014 (Fall): Criminology; Instructor: Dr. Michael Radelet

UNDERGRADUATETEACHINGASSISTANT

DepartmentofPsychology,Baker鶹

2013 PY252:SocialResearch MethodsII(Spring);Instructor:Dr.MarcCarter 2012 PY 251: Social Research Methods I (Fall); Instructor: Dr. Marc Carter

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2019
Clark, K. J.
Rethinking Prisonization: A Longitudinal Investigation of Adherence to the ConvictCodeAcrossStagesofIncarceration.The75thmeeting oftheAmerican Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA. [Manuscript under review]

2018
Clark, K. J., Mitchell, M. M., Fahmy, C., Pyrooz, D.C., & Decker, S. H..The74thmeeting oftheAmericanSociety ofCriminology,Atlanta, GA.[PublishedinInternationalJournal ofOffenderTherapy andComparative Criminology

2017
Clark, K. J., Jennifer Tostlebe, David C. Pyrooz, and Scott H. Decker.The73rdmeeting oftheAmericanSociety of Criminology, Philadelphia,PA.[PublishedinJournalofResearch inCrimeandDelinquency

Fahmy,Chantal, KendraClark,MeghanMitchell, DavidPyrooz,andScott Decker.
. The 54th meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Kansas City, MO. [Published in Sociological Methods and Research

2016
Clark, Kendra J.and David C. Pyrooz. RestrictingMorethanHousing: TheEffectsofRestrictiveHousing onRecidivism among Juveniles. The 72nd meeting of the American Society of Criminology,New Orleans. [Manuscript in progress]

Randa,Ryan,DavidC.Pyrooz, andKendraClark Scaredtogotoschool?GangsandFearofVictimizationonSchoolGrounds. The 53rdmeeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Denver, CO.

2015
Clark,Kendra J. Childhood IndicatorsofAdultFemale Incarceration.The78thmeeting ofthe Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City

2014
Clark,Kendra J. AreSiblingsRunning usout of House andHome?The77thmeeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha

Clark, Kendra J. DemandforaParental LeavePolicyReform intheUnitedStatesofAmerica.The 2014 annual meeting for the Association of Psychological and Educational Research in Kansas, Hays

2013
Clark,Kendra J. MedicalAmnest PolicyProposal.The2013annualmeetingforthe Association of Psychological and Educational Research in Kansas, Baldwin City

PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT

2019
AmericanSocietyofCriminology:DivisionofCorrectionsandSentencing(DCS) 20-for-20 Mentoring Campaign

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency(JRCD): Graduate Student PublishingWorkshop,College Park,MA(LedbyEds.JeanMcGloinandChris Sullivan)

  • 1 of 12 doctoral students accepted

PEDAGOGICALTRAINING

2021
TheInternationalInstructorTraining InstituteofTheInside-OutPrison Exchange Program

2015
CIRTLAssociate,(ResearchonAcademicRetention)ROARGraduate Teacher Program, CU Boulder

  • 12hourworkshopwithintensivetraining onstudentretention inSTEM disciplines and student learning

CERTIFICATIONS

GraduateCertificateinQuantitativeMethods inBehavioralSciences,CUBoulder Graduate Teaching Certificate, CU Boulder

ACTIVITIESAND SERVICES

2021
GuestLecturer,CorrectionsCoursetaughtbyDr.RebeccaRodriguez Carey, DepartmentofSociology,Anthropology,andCrime andDelinquencyStudies at Emporia State 鶹

2020
GuestLecturer,CorrectionsCoursetaught byDr.RebeccaRodriguez Carey, DepartmentofSociology,Anthropology,andCrimeandDelinquencyStudies at Emporia State 鶹

2019
InvitedPanelist,ThrivingnotSurvivingYourFirstYearofGraduate School, 鶹 of Colorado Boulder

Co-Organizer, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Workshop(4sessionseachfall),sponsored bytheInstituteofBehavioralScience at CU Boulder

2018
GraduateStudentRepresentativeonHiringCommitteeforCriminologyJob Search, Department of Sociology, 鶹 of Colorado Boulder

Co-Organizer, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Workshop(4sessionseachfall),sponsored bytheInstituteofBehavioralScience at CU Boulder

InvitedPanelist, NationalScienceFoundationGraduateResearchFellowship Workshop, sponsored by the Graduate College at CU Boulder

InvitedPanelist, ADayintheLifeofaGraduateStudent, SociologyDepartment Open House, 鶹 of Colorado Boulder

InvitedSpeaker, GraduateStudentLifeasaFirstGenerationCollegeStudent, Sociology Department Orientation Week, 鶹 of Colorado Boulder

2017
InvitedPanelist,ThrivingnotSurvivingYourFirstYearofGraduate School, 鶹 of Colorado Boulder

Mentor,FirstYearCohort MentorshipProgram

Co-Organizer, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Workshop(4sessionseachfall),sponsored bytheInstituteofBehavioralScience at CU Boulder

SociologyGraduate StudentFacultyMeeting ElectedRepresentative,Conference of World Affairs, 鶹 of Colorado Boulder

InvitedPanelist,FirstGenerationCollege StudentPresentation,of Colorado Boulder

2016-present
Member,SociologyGraduateStudentCollective,ofColorado Boulder

Founderandmember,Sociology FirstGenerationStudent Network,of Colorado Boulder

Member,CriminologyWorkshop,ofColoradoBoulder

2015
Judge,UndergraduatePaperCompetition,Midwest Sociological Society

MANUSCRIPTREVIEWER

Criminal Justice and Behavior (8 reviews)

InternationalJournal ofLaw,CrimeandJustice(2 reviews)

InternationalJournal ofOffenderTherapy andComparativeCriminology(2 reviews)

JournalofResearchonCrimeandDelinquency(1review) Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice (1 review)

PROFESSIONALMEMBERSHIPS

2016-present
American Society of Criminology
AcademyofCriminalJustice Sciences
American Sociological Association

2014
Midwestern Sociology Society