Education
Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland College Park, 2018
M.A., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland College Park, 2015
B.A., Sociology, Politics, Washington & Lee University, 2012
Miranda Galvin
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Courts and Sentencing
Prosecution
White Collar Crime
Biography
Miranda A. Galvin earned her Ph.D. in Criminology & Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland, College Park where her dissertation was awarded the Charles Caramello award for Distinguished Dissertation in Social Sciences. Prior to joining Towson University in 2022, Dr. Galvin was a postdoctoral scholar at the Pennsylvania State University where she worked as an embedded researcher at the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing. In 2021, she was awarded the Young Scholar award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on White Collar and Corporate Crime.
Dr. Galvin’s current work focuses on policy and structures directly or indirectly affecting courtroom decision making and disparity in punishment. She is currently Co-PI on a grant working with three Maryland State’s Attorney’s offices to determine the extent of racial disparity at multiple case processing outcomes and to explore policy mechanisms that may exacerbate or mitigate them. Dr. Galvin also studies the imposition of consecutive punishment, the role of sentencing guidelines in reifying and reproducing inequality, and the role of place in punishment. Her work has been published in Justice Quarterly, Criminology & Public Policy, the Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency and the Journal of Experimental Criminology.