Research
Empirical Criminology & Policy
“Stalled at the County Line: Organizational Barriers to Vehicle Forensics.”
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: Supported by the Arkansas ADHE Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Abstract: An explanatory sequential mixed-methods study quantifying the gap between forensic capability and investigative need in rural law enforcement agencies.
Status: Data collection in progress (IRB approved)
Code & Data (Coming soon)
“The Rolling Bailment: Carpenter v. U.S. and Vehicle Privacy”
Status: Manuscript in preparation
Abstract: A legal analysis arguing that the Supreme Court should adopt a property-based “bailment theory” to resolve the constitutional ambiguity of vehicle telematics data following Carpenter v. United States.
Draft (Coming Soon)
Digital Humanities & Political Economy
The Commonweal Archive (Digital Humanities Project)
Role: Creator & Archivist
Description: A curated digital repository of public domain texts focusing on Distributism, Georgism, and Non-Resistance. The project utilizes OCR and formatting remediation to make early 20th-century political economy texts accessible to modern researchers.
“Taxation as Social Structure”
Format: Theoretical Essay / Public Scholarship
Abstract: An analysis reconciling the “Land Value Tax” of Henry George with the widespread property ownership models of G.K. Chesterton, arguing that the two systems address the same root causes of economic inequality.