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Curriculum Vitae

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Employment

2023– Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

2022–23 Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology, Harvard University

Education

2022 Ph.D. (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley

2015 Master of Arts (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley

2012 Bachelor of Arts (Tutorial Studies with Special Honors), University of Chicago

Selected publications

Showalter, David, Lynn D. Wenger, Barrot H. Lambdin, Eliza Wheeler, Ingrid Binswanger, and Alex H. Kral. 2021. “Bridging Institutional Logics: Implementing Naloxone Distribution for People Exiting Jail in Three California Counties.” Social Science & Medicine 285: 114293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114293

Showalter, David. 2020. “Steps Toward a Theory of Place Effects on Drug Use: Risk, Marginality, and Opportunity in Small and Remote California Towns.” International Journal of Drug Policy 85: 102629. Special issue on “Rural Risk Environments.” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.102629

Showalter, David. 2020. “Crisis and Policy Change: HIV/AIDS and Syringe Services in California.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 25(1): 71–92. https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-25-1-71

Showalter, David. 2019. “Misdiagnosing Medicalization: Penal Psychopathy and Psychiatric Practice.” Theory and Society 48(1): 67–94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-018-09336-y

Showalter, David. 2018. “Federal Funding for Syringe Exchange: Explaining a Long-Term Policy Failure.” International Journal of Drug Policy 55: 95-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.02.006

Selected awards and fellowships

2021 Bruce D. Johnson Student Paper Award, Drugs and Society Section, American Sociological Association

2021 Honorable Mention, Bruce D. Johnson Student Paper Award, Drinking and Drugs Section, Society for the Study of Social Problems

2021 Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Engaged Scholarship

2020 Duster Fellowship for Social Justice Research, UC Berkeley

2020 Bruce D. Johnson Student Paper Award, Drugs and Society Section, American Sociological Association

2019 Graduate Fellow, Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies, UC Berkeley

2019 Dissertation Grant, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy

2016 Bruce D. Johnson Student Paper Award, Drugs and Society Section, American Sociological Association

2016 Martin Levine Student Paper Award, Sociologists’ AIDS Network

2014 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation

2013 Regents Fellowship, UC Berkeley

2011 Student Marshal (highest undergraduate honor), University of Chicago