Psychology Faculty

- Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Psychology Department
- Affiliations Education Department
- Website
- Office Location
- Social Sciences 2, N/A
- Mail Stop Psychology Faculty Services
Research Interests
Racial and ethnic identity development; adolescent development; teaching and learning in the carceral context; race and education; urban education; critical carceral studies; criminal & juvenile legal systems; identity and agency; whiteness and white racial identity development; Black and Latinx/e communities; families; sociocultural theories of learning
Biography, Education and Training
- Ph.D. & M.A., Northwestern University
- Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Honors, Awards and Grants
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
- National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
- Social Science Research Council Research Development Grant
Selected Publications
Muñiz, J.O., Corcoran, F., Marzougui, J., Schlafer, R., Eddy, J.M., & Dallaire, D. (2023). Towards Family Preservation: A Systematic Jurisdiction Analysis of Prison Visitation Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000379
Muñiz, J.O, & Marshall, J. (2022). We are not of this place: On Race, Identity, and Criminality Among Incarcerated White Youth. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12793
Muñiz, J.O. (2021). Exclusionary Discipline Policies, School Police Partnership, Surveillance Technologies and Disproportionality: A Review of the School to Prison Pipeline Literature. The Urban Review, 1-26. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11256-021-00595-1
Teaching Interests
- Race, Education, and the Carceral State
- People, Policies, and Prisons
- Ethnographic Methods
- Qualitative Research Methods