Kayla Hoskins Accepts Postdoc position with the Yale School of Medicine

March 27, 2023

Kayla Hoskins, PhD Candidate (ABD), in the School of Criminal Justice has accepted a T32 Postdoctoral Fellow position with the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Prevention and Community Research.

Kayla says she is “ecstatic to work alongside the phenomenal researchers and faculty there” and plans to continue her interdisciplinary research that focuses on improving treatment of system-involved individuals struggling with trauma, substance misuse, and the advancement of gender-responsive and trauma-informed correctional approaches.

Reflecting on her time in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, Kayla says she is appreciative of the mentorship, support, and opportunities she received during her graduate studies.

Congratulations Kayla, we are excited to see the work you continue to do to Advance Justice!

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Kayla M. Hoskins is a PhD Candidate (ABD) in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (Cognate: Community Psychology). She earned her B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University. Previously, she served as the Assistant Director of Youth Advancement Through Athletics (YATA), a multifaceted development program for adjudicated adolescents.

Her work has been published in Crime & Delinquency, Feminist Criminology, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Women & Criminal Justice, Journal of Community Psychology, and Sex Roles. Kayla was honored to be awarded Feminist Criminology's Dr. Helen Eigenberg Best Article of the Year Award for 2020, for an article co-authored with Dr. Jennifer Cobbina-Dungy: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/fcx/collections/bestarticle

Broadly, Kayla frames her scholarship within feminist and critical criminological paradigms. She considers internal and contextual influences on crime and desistance, including how sociostructural conditions impact adults and youths with intersecting marginalized identities (e.g., gendered, racialized, criminalized). Her research investigates issues of gender, trauma, substance misuse and illicit behavior, identity, personal agency, well-being, and desistance. She primarily utilizes qualitative and mixed methodologies, and her work presents implications for improving treatment of diverse individuals entangled in the criminal and juvenile legal systems, including the advancement of gender-responsive and trauma-informed correctional approaches.

In her current research, she emphasizes the salient connection between trauma and criminal legal system-involvement to analyze systemic responses to trauma-related needs (among other criminogenic risks/needs) of correctional populations, and guide reform to prevent system-induced harm.