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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