Caralin C. Branscum
Caralin C. Branscum (she/her) received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in criminology and criminal justice from Florida Atlantic University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (SCCJ) and is on track to defend her dissertation and graduate this May. She is also affiliated with SCCJ’s Victimology and Victim Studies Research Lab, where she spent three years as the project coordinator for the Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Evaluation.
Currently, she is a research assistant for the National Institute of Justice. Her research interests include victimology, gender-based violence, and community and system responses to victims of crime. She is also the recipient of UNO’s “Helen Hansen Outstanding Graduate Student.” Some of her recent work has been published in Child Abuse & Neglect, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Victims & Offenders.
Kellie Lindsay
Kellie Lindsay (she/her/hers) will receive her master’s degree in economics this May. As a graduate student, she significantly contributed to the College of Business Administration’s Koraleski Commerce and Applied Behavioral Lab (CAB Lab) as a graduate assistant. She invigorated the CAB Lab’s research endeavors through her leadership in two experimental and behavioral economics studies, while also fostering interdisciplinary cooperation with CBA faculty.
Her work has already yielded tangible results, with one study being published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and another poised for submission following her thesis defense. Her exemplary role in the CAB Lab led to her recruitment and subsequent research fellowship with Gallup. Following graduation, she is excited to join the 2024 cohort of Ph.D. students in economics at the University of Michigan.
