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Community Spotlight

  • Congratulations to Tom Leppard for winning the 2024 Himes Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the North Carolina Sociological Association, “Hold Tight Centrality and Big Up the Network: Network Position and the Career Success of Grime Musicians.”
  • Dr. Jennifer Carroll has been selected as the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Junior Faculty in Social Sciences for 2023-2024.
  • Morrissey, B., El-Sabawi, T., & Carroll, J. J. (2024). Prosecuting overdose: An exploratory study of prosecutorial motivations for drug-induced homicide prosecutions in north carolina. International Journal of Drug Policy, 125, 104344. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104344
  • Dyer, Chelsey (2024). Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times, Anthropology News website,

The department has been nothing short of welcoming and helpful in my journey here at NC State.

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Justice Cass

Criminology ’22