Jacob Church joined The University of Alabama’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice as a full-time instructor and academic advisor in Spring 2021. He will graduate with his Ph.D. in Sociology from Kent State University in the Spring of 2021. His dissertation examines racial and gender sentencing disparities in the population of North Carolina felony offenders sentenced between 2000 and 2018. Beyond his dissertation, Jacob is interested in how private and public organizations perpetuate racial, gender, and intersectional inequality. He has co-authored publications in journals such as Sex Roles, Sociological Inquiry, and Sociological Imagination. At UA, Jacob teaches Research Methods, Race and Ethnic Relations, and Introduction to Sociology.
In the Media
Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Adam Lankford recently published a study on the 2016 Dallas and Baton Rouge cop killers, who committed two of the worst targeted attacks on American police officers in recent history — within eleven days of each other.