Rudes Receives Faculty Research Award

Rudes Receives Faculty Research Award

Dr. Danielle Rudes has received a Faculty Research and Professional Development Award from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) to fund her proposed project, "Together Alone:  Organizational Change and Perspectives of Punishment, Risk & Health for Those Living & Working in Solitary Confinement."  She will work with Criminology, Law and Society PhD student Shannon Magnuson, who helped prepare the research proposal.  Dr. Rudes and Ms. Magnuson will study solitary confinement using ethnography and will also visit four prisons in Pennsylvania to interview staff and inmates on the subject.  The CHSS Faculty Research Awards are designed to help faculty initiate new programs of research and scholarship or enhance existing ones, with the primary objective of providing seed money that will lead, where possible, to further support from external sources.