The Vera Institute of Justice is seeking to end mass incarceration and advance justice. This role supports applied research to understand problems, develop solutions, shift policies, and change beliefs and norms that perpetuate inequity and impede justice.
Requirements
- PhD students from any program with research interests in criminal or immigration justice
- research interests and related experience
- methodological expertise and projects that you have utilized this research expertise
- research interests in criminal or immigration justice
- research interests and related experience
- methodological expertise and projects that you have utilized this research expertise
Responsibilities
- support applied research that crosscuts Vera’s priority areas in support of our mission to end mass incarceration
- responsible for at least one original research product to be co-authored with the managing director of research or other research leadership staff
- may be involved in an annual review of detention and incarceration trends
- support us in developing creative approaches to measuring the social and economic impact of various policy proposals in the criminal legal and immigration systems
- generate and interpret the evidence required to understand problems, develop solutions, shift policies, and change beliefs and norms that perpetuate inequity and impede justice
- conceptualize issues and collect the evidence that is needed to understand problems, highlight inequities, design interventions, and advocate for transformative change
- ensure that the knowledge we produce reaches decision-makers in a format that is designed to spur action
Other
- Fellowship is for Academic Year 2026-2027
- Fellow will be expected to spend 21 hours per week working with Vera
- Fellow will work 1-2 days per week in person at Vera’s offices
- Fellows must currently hold a Graduate Center Fellowship (GCF)
- Vacation and time off will be discussed with each applicant but will not follow the academic calendar
