Jessica Dunning-Lozano

Associate Professor, Sociology
Office: Muller Faculty Center 215, Ithaca, NY 14850
Specialty: Sociology

Jessica Dunning-Lozano is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ithaca College. Her research broadly examines the micro effects of large-scale social and economic policies on poor communities. She investigates what happens when the punitive arm of the state becomes enmeshed with social institutions designed to provide a public good, such as public education. Her research interests are in education, crime, law, and deviance, race, poverty, and ethnography.

Jessica Dunning-Lozano's work has been funded through the American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program, the Center for Mexican American Studies, the C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations, the President's Fellowship at the University of Texas, the Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/ Teaching Fellowship Program, and The National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation.

Jessica Dunning-Lozano received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas, Austin. She graduated with an M.A. in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in Sociology and Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.