Michelle Shames
- m-shames@u.northwestern.edu
- Advisor(s): Papachristos
- Entry Cohort: Fall 2020
Area(s) of Interest
Policing; the Carceral State; Criminal Legal Policy Reform & Evaluation; Causal Inference & Quantitative Methods.
Biography
Michelle Shames is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern, where she is also pursuing an MS in Applied Statistics. Her dissertation examines the implementation and evaluation of recent Chicago Police Department reform efforts. Michelle also conducts research part time at the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science (CORNERS).