Speaker Series: Ashley Rubin

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Dr. Ashley Rubin is an interdisciplinary social scientist specializing in the study of criminal punishment as a social phenomenon; their work, described more below, sits at the intersections of criminology, history, sociology, and sociolegal studies. Dr. Rubin is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She holds a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley, where she graduated in 2013. Dr. Rubin’s primary intellectual homes are the interdisciplinary fields of law and society and punishment and society. From 2023 to 2026, she is co-editor (with Shauhin Talesh and Katharina Heyer) of the Law & Society Review, the flagship journal of the Law and Society Association. In an effort to generate more locally relevant research, Dr. Rubin founded the Hawai‘i Crime Lab, which uses social science to provide useful information to Hawai‘i’s residents, visitors, and policymakers about crime and criminal justice on O‘ahu.