Khirin Carter

I joined the Department in Fall of 2007, after receiving my bachelor’s degree in both Psychology and Criminal Justice from Grambling State University, in Grambling, Louisiana. While at Grambling,  I was a member of  Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Gamma Beta Phi National Honor Society,  Alpha Lambda National Honor Society,  National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice (NABCJ),   National PAN-Hellenic Council, Grambling State University Chapter, Creating New Horizons After-School Program, and the Intergenerational Mentoring Program (IMP). 

I took the initiative to prepare for my future career by participating in the Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) at the University of Iowa. I worked with Dr. Robert Baller in the Department of Sociology, and assisted him in tracing the diffusion of the honor-code among Black and White males in the Old South using a herding index measure, title The Indirect Effects of Slavery on Race Specific Homicide that Operate Through Family Structure; Herding in the Old South and Contemporary Black-Male, Argument- and Felony-Related.   We also worked on a second project titled The Indirect Effects of Slavery on Race Specific Homicide that Operate Through Family Structure, which I had the privilege of presenting both at the 2006 SROP Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as the 2006 Summer Research Conference at the University of Iowa.  This research sparked my interest in spatial analysis and demography as it relates to homicide rates. Currently, my research interests include race, crime and violence, stratification, and my new found interest, sociology of education.