Rate My Professor Unique Shaw-Smith

More recently, Unique Shaw-Smith has directed her research towards examining inequality and social change through the lens of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Her research interests include sociology, criminology and criminal justice, social psychology, life course perspective, incarceration, social exclusion, race and ethnicity, and quantitative research methods. Key publications include the co-authored paper with Raymond R. Swisher, "Paternal Incarceration and Adolescent Well-Being: Life Course Contingencies and Other Moderators," published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence in 2015, and a forthcoming article with the same co-author in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. She has received several honors during her graduate studies, including the Golden Key Graduate Scholar Award (2011), Winifred O. Stone Graduate Student Development Award (2010), Phenomenal Woman Award (2010), and Outstanding Black Female Award (2009).