Rate My Professor Claudia Anderson

Claudia Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University, a position she has held since 2024. She concurrently serves as a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Sociology at Boston University since 2024. Previously, she was an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at the Justice Lab, Columbia University from 2022 to 2024, and a Postdoctoral Associate on the Pennsylvania Solitary Study at Boston University from 2022 to 2024. Anderson earned her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2022, with a dissertation entitled "A Systems-Level Analysis of the Theories and Impacts of Supermax Incarceration." She holds a B.S. in Psychology, summa cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago, awarded in 2017.

Her research centers on punishment, incarceration, and correctional policies, encompassing theories of crime and social control, inequality, and policy. Notable publications include "Disentangling the Relationship Between Serious Disorder Problems and the Use of Supermax Prisons" (2024, Criminology & Public Policy); "How Punitive is Pretrial? Measuring the Relative Pains of Pretrial Detention" (forthcoming, Punishment & Society, with Joshua C. Cochran and Andrea N. Montes); "Testing Systems-Level Theories and Impacts of Supermax Prisons: A Macrolevel Longitudinal Analysis" (forthcoming, Justice Quarterly, with Joshua C. Cochran and John Wooldredge); "Solitary Confinement and Post-Release Drug and Alcohol Test Failure Among Formerly Incarcerated Men on Parole in Pennsylvania (2010-2023)" (2025, International Journal of Drug Policy, with Jessica T. Simes, Jacquelyn L. Jahn, and Bruce Western); "Is Reduced Visitation a Collateral Consequence of Restrictive Housing?" (2022, Criminal Justice and Behavior, with Joshua C. Cochran and John Wooldredge); and "Pre-prison Social Capital and the Implications for Prison Life: Is Visitation a Conduit?" (2022, Crime & Delinquency, with Joshua C. Cochran and Elisa L. Toman). Anderson received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship from 2019 to 2022 and the Benjamin Steiner Outstanding Doctoral Student Award from the University of Cincinnati in 2022. She serves as co-guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice (forthcoming) and holds leadership roles such as Chair of the Division on Corrections & Sentencing Dissertation Awards Committee (2026) and member of various American Society of Criminology committees.