Biography

Faith’s research broadly explores how marginalized groups experience, navigate, and respond to social control institutions. Of particular interest is the U.S. criminal legal system, with her current project examining how commercial bail entangles families in a complicated economic and social system of obligation, debt, and punishment.

Both her research and teaching are rooted in the conviction that lived experience(s) can be a vehicle for producing, or touchstone for understanding, knowledge and converting it into practice. In other words, she believes in embracing our closeness to topics!

Before coming to UCLA, Faith earned a PhD and MA in sociology from UT-Austin, and a BA in Biology from Trinity University.