Aaron Roussell (M.A., UW '07) currently ponders Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine, in the School of Social Ecology. The Richmond, VA native wandered into sociology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA and has never fully recovered. Aaron rambled to UW from Washington, DC where he coordinated research and grants with the US Department of Justice for the National Drug Court Institute. Although he continues in an applied policy research vein, he has written on social disorganization theory through the lens of rural methamphetamine use and is currently tinkering with dynamic structural correlates of violent and property crime across the rural-urban continuum. He is also returning to his urban roots, engaging in ethnographic field work in South Los Angeles around the issues of interracial violence and the constitution of power between police and residents. In Fall 2013, he joined the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University as an Assistant Professor.
