Faculty visits

Please join us on March 17th for the 2026 Susette M. Talarico Lecture-- “Beyond Punishment: What We Can Learn from Scandinavian Prisons”Jordan M. Hyatt, JD PhD, is a Professor of Criminology in the Department of Criminology and Justice Studies, and Law in the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University. There, he is the Director of the Center for Public Policy and of the Justice Collaborative. As the co-lead of the Scandinavian Prison…

MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and University of Chicago sociologist Dr. Reuben Miller is the author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, a “persuasive and essential” (Dr. Matthew Desmond) book that offers a “stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation’s carceral system” (Heather Ann Thompson).  As a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and as a sociologist studying mass incarceration, he…