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1 Natalie A. Pifer Department of Criminology, Law and Society University of California, Irvine 2340 Social Ecology II Irvine, CA RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS criminal law, criminal justice reform, criminal procedure, criminology, critical legal studies, education law, extreme punishments, homelessness, law & society, legal consciousness, mental disabilities and illnesses, policing, policy implementation, sociology of medicine, punishment & social control EDUCATION 2017 Ph.D. (candidate), Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine Dissertation: Managing the Mentally Ill in Los Angeles Committee: Elliott Currie (co-chair), Keramet Reiter (co-chair), Kaaryn Gustafson (Law) Mona Lynch, George Tita Comprehensive Exam Fields: Criminology; Law & Society (emphasis in Legal Consciousness and Punishment) 2014 M.A., Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine Thesis: Implementing Atkins: Reconstructing and Reinforcing Intellectual Disability through Capital Punishment Committee: Elliott Currie (chair), Mona Lynch, Keramet Reiter 2011 J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA Cum Laude & Order of the Coif / Class Rank - Top 5% 2008 B.A., Journalism and Politics, New York University, New York, NY Cum Laude Law Review & Peer-Reviewed Articles PUBLICATIONS 2016 Natalie A. Pifer, The Scientific and the Social in Implementing Atkins v. Virginia, LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY (forthcoming) Natalie A. Pifer, Re-Entrenchment Through Reform: The Promises and Perils of Categorical Exemptions for Extreme Punishment Policy, ALA. C.R. & C.L. L. REV. (forthcoming) Natalie A. Pifer, Case Comment, Berghuis v. Smith: Continuing Ambiguity in Fair- Cross Section Claims, 44 LOY. L. REV (2011).

2 Natalie Pifer curriculum vitae page Natalie A. Pifer, Note, Is Life the Same As Death?: Implications of Graham v. Florida, Roper v. Simmons, and Atkins v. Virginia on Life Without Parole Sentences for Juvenile and Mentally Retarded Offenders, 43 LOY. L. REV (2010). Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters 2015 Keramet Retier & Natalie Pifer, Plata v. Brown, in OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE IN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (Michael Tonry, ed. 2015). Book Reviews 2016 Natalie A. Pifer, Review of the book MASS INCARCERATION ON TRIAL: A REMARKABLE DECISION AND THE FUTURE OF PRISONS IN AMERICA, PUNISHMENT & SOCIETY (forthcoming) Natalie A. Pifer, Review of the book LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE: AMERICA'S NEW DEATH PENALTY?, 15 PUNISHMENT & SOCIETY 583 (2013). Policy Publications 2015 American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, Review of Colorado Department of Correction s Reforms to Solitary Confinement. **Contributing Research Consultant Manuscripts under Review Melissa Barragan, Kelsie Chesnut, Jason Gravel, Natalie Pifer, Keramet Reiter, Nicole Sherman, & George Tita, Armed and Potentially Deterred: How Inmates in Los Angeles County Jails Understand Ammunition and Gun Laws. Under review at THE RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. Kelsie Chesnut, Melissa Barragan, Jason Gravel, Natalie Pifer, Keramet Reiter, Nicole Sherman, & George Tita, Not an Iron Pipeline, but Many Iron Capillaries: Regulating Passive Gun Transactions in Los Angeles' Secondary & Illegal Markets. Under Review at INJURY PREVENTION. Manuscripts in Progress Natalie A. Pifer, Revealing the Science of Illusion in the Atkins Category. Preparing for submission in Summer Natalie A. Pifer, Kelsie Chestnut, Keramet Reiter, & George Tita, Missing the Mark with Deterrence: Criminal Law and Legal Consciousness in the County Jail. Preparing for submission in Summer Natalie A. Pifer, Policing Property and People on Skid Row. Preparing for submission in Winter 2017.

3 Natalie Pifer curriculum vitae page 3 Natalie A. Pifer, Specialized Justice and the Pursuit of Criminal Justice Reform. Preparing for submission in Winter Natalie A. Pifer, Policing the Mentally Ill in Los Angeles. Preparing for submission in Spring Natalie A. Pifer & Kelsie Chesnut, Law as Sword and Shield: Conflicting Legal Consciousness in the Criminal Context. Preparing for submission Summer GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000) 2016 UC Irvine Graduate Dean s Dissertation Fellowship ($11,498.50) 2016 Summer Research Funding, UC Irvine ($2,300) 2015 Associated Graduate Students Travel Grant, UC Irvine ($800) 2015 Summer Research Funding, UC Irvine ($1,450) 2014 Summer Research Funding, UC Irvine ($1,550) Peterson/Microsemi Fellowship in Law, Society and Culture, UC Irvine ($10,745) California Wellness Foundation (sub-grant) Lead Graduate Student Researcher on Gun Violence in America: Understanding Illegal Gun Markets, A Multi-City, Multi-Method Study (Co-PIs: George Tita and Keramet Reiter) 2013 Associated Graduate Students Travel Grant, UC Irvine ($400) 2012 Summer Research Funding, UC Irvine ($3,200) Conference Travel Support, UC Irvine ($5,000) 2011 Summer Research Funding, UC Irvine ($3,000) Social Ecology Stipend and Fee Fellowship, UC Irvine ($21,490) SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS 2016 Michelle Smith-Pontell Outstanding Accomplishment in Graduate Study Award, Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society

4 Natalie Pifer curriculum vitae page Honorable Mention, UC Center Sacramento s Emerging Scholars Award for Excellence in Research and Public Policy 2016 Tom Angell Fellowship, UC Irvine (Nominee) Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society Commendation Award 2011 Alpha Sigma Nu Honor Society 2011 St. Thomas More Law Honor Society Faculty Academic Honors Scholarship, Loyola Law School 2011 Election Law and Law of the Political Process, Loyola Law School First Honors 2011 Advanced Topics in Criminal Justice, Loyola Law School First Honors 2011 Habeas Corpus and Prisoner Civil Rights Litigation, Loyola Law School First Honors 2010 Administrative Law, Loyola Law School First Honors Instructor TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2016 Introduction to Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine (online undergraduate course) 2016 American Law, UC Irvine (upper-division undergraduate course) Guest Lectures 2016 Punishment and Inequality in Macro Criminology (graduate course Charis Kubrin), Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine, May 17, Teaching Assistantships 2016 Naturalistic Field Research, UC Irvine (undergraduate Dan Yates) 2013 Naturalistic Field Research, UC Irvine (undergraduate Oscar Tsai) 2013 White Collar Crime, UC Irvine (undergraduate Paul Jesilow) 2013 Research Methods, UC Irvine (undergraduate Sara Wakefield) 2012 Extreme Punishments, UC Irvine (undergraduate Keramet Reiter)

5 Natalie Pifer curriculum vitae page Government Crime, UC Irvine (undergraduate Jeanne Bickford) 2012 Ethics and Politics of Justice, UC Irvine (undergraduate Akhila Ananth) Course Development 2015 Legal Reasoning, UC Irvine (online graduate course with Bill Thompson) Pedagogical Development 2015 Developing Teaching Excellence (UC Irvine Center for Engaged Instruction) 2013 Safe Zone Training (UC Irvine LGBT Resource Center) SELECTED LEGAL EXPERINECE 2016 Co-Supervisor (with Keramet Reiter), UC Irvine Law School s Pro Bono Clemency Project, co-supervised law students working on cases for clients seeking clemency through the Clemency Project Certified Law Student, Youth Education Advocacy Clinic, Center for Juvenile Law and Policy, represented juvenile delinquents and their educational rights holders at school disciplinary and expulsion hearings and during actions related to special education rights, including Individual Education Plan meetings and due process hearings Legal Intern, Manhattan Borough President s Office, Office of the General Counsel, assisted in policy and legislative analysis at the city, state and federal level, evaluated political legal situations, especially conflict of interest and public access cases, assisted Borough s Immigrant Rights Task Force, including community organizing around the DREAM Act. Professional Service Reviewer for: PUNISHMENT & SOCIETY ACADEMIC SERVICE Editorial Assistant, PUNISHMENT & SOCIETY (Professors Kelly Hannah-Moffat & Mona Lynch, Eds.) Note & Comment Editor, LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW Staff Member, LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW

6 Natalie Pifer curriculum vitae page 6 University Service Fall 2014 Co-organized a film screening featuring Gabriel London, Director of The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest, sponsored by the Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society, the UC Irvine Center for Law, Society and Culture, and the Newkirk Center for Science and Society Co-Organizer of the Critical Justice Working Group An interdisciplinary group of graduate students facilitating reading discussions and paper workshops, sponsored by the UC Irvine Center for Law, Society and Culture present Affiliated graduate student, UC Irvine Center for Law Society and Culture. Departmental and School Service Fall 2015 Spring 2015 Graduate Student Representative, Faculty Hiring Committee, Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society. Co-organized a colloquium featuring Professor Meda Chesney-Lind (University of Hawaii at Manoa) as the Annual CLS Graduate Student Invited Speaker, sponsored by the Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society Co-Graduate Student Representative, Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society Attended faculty meetings, coordinated graduate student community events, liaison for faculty-graduate issues and managed $5,000 budget Member, Ad-Hoc Comps Committee, Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society Co-Chair, Social Committee, Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society Member, Social Committee, Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society Member, Peer Mentoring Committee, Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society. Student Mentoring 2015 Nafessa Edges, Jackson State University (undergraduate), UC-Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative. Invited Lectures SELECTED PRESENTATIONS 2017 The Promises and Perils of Categorical Exemptions in Punishment Policy. Emerging Scholars Series, UC Center Sacramento, February 9, 2017.

7 Natalie Pifer curriculum vitae page 7 Public Presentations 2015 Los Angeles Underground Gun Market. Festival of Discovery, Irvine, CA, October 3, Campus and Departmental Presentations 2016 Policing Skid Row. Socio-Legal Studies Workshop Series, Irvine, CA, September 30, Invited Panelist, Why Graduate School. Social Justice Research Symposium, Irvine, CA, May 20, Invited Panelist, Translational Research Panel. Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society, Irvine, CA, January 11, Panelist, Prospective Student Research Panel. Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society, Irvine, CA, January 26, Implementing Atkins: Reconstructing and Reinforcing Intellectual Disability through Capital Punishment. Socio-Legal Studies Workshop Series, Irvine, CA, May 2, Panelist, Comprehensive Exam Q&A Panel. Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society, Irvine, CA, December 11, Invited Panelist, Colloquium Series: Surviving and Thriving as a Graduate Student. Dep t of Criminology, Law and Society, Irvine, CA, November 3, "Foreshadowing Atkins: National Consensus Contradictions in Capital Cases Involving Intellectual Disability." Dep't of Criminology, Law & Society Graduate Student Colloquium, Irvine, CA, May 21, "Is Life the Same as Death?: What s Next for Juvenile and Mentally Retarded Life Without Parole Sentences." Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review Annual Student Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, April Conference Presentations 2016 Policing the Mentally in Los Angeles. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, LA The Development and Deployment of Specialized Policing Strategies in Managing the Mentally Ill. Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, New Orleans, LA.

8 Natalie Pifer curriculum vitae page Invited Paper Session Chair and Discussant, The Punitive State III: Death Penalty, Wrongful Convictions, and Punishing Violent Crimes. Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, New Orleans, LA Managing the Mentally Ill. West Coast Law and Society Retreat Graduate Student Workshop, Irvine, CA Paper Session Organizer and Chair, Researching Extreme Conditions of Confinement: Solitary Confinement, Ad-Seg, and the SHU. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC Roundtable Session Organizer and Chair, The Law and Practice of Solitary Confinement and Extreme Prison Conditions. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC Pulling the Trigger: Prohibited Possessors and Deciding to Buy in Los Angeles Underground Gun Market. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, with Kelsie Chesnut and Melissa Barragan, Washington, DC Categorically Restricting Extreme Conditions of Confinement. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC Invited Panelist, Categorical Restrictions: Exempting the Mentally Ill from California s Extreme Conditions of Confinement. Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, Seattle, WA Paper Session Organizer and Chair, Bearing Arms from Behind Bars: Examining Gun Laws and the Gun Offender. Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, Seattle, WA Missing the Mark with Deterrence: Understanding the Legal Consciousness of LA Gun Offenders. Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, with Kelsie Chesnut, Seattle, WA The Atkins Category: Revealing the Science of Illusion in Death Penalty Adaptations. Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Criminology, Phoenix, AZ A Qualitative Understanding of LA s Illegal Gun Market. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, with Kelsie Chesnut and Melissa Barragan, San Francisco, CA "Implementing Atkins: Reconstructing and Reinforcing Intellectual Disability through Capital Punishment." Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, Minneapolis, MN.

9 Natalie Pifer curriculum vitae page "A Space Between: Capital Defendants Alleging Intellectual Disability and Constructions of the Penal Subject." Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA "Targeting Los Angeles's Underground Gun Market: An Exploratory Multi-Method Approach." Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, with Keramet Reiter, Atlanta, GA Implementing Atkins: Interrogating the National Consensus. Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, Boston, MA. Conference Posters Presented 2016 Influential Factors on Transaction Level Gun-Involved Behavior Among Adults in Los Angeles, CA. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, with Kelsie Chesnut and Melissa Barragan, Seattle, WA 2015 "Missing the Mark with Deterrence: Criminal Law and Legal Consciousness in the County Jail." University of California Conference on Social Science and Law, with Kelsie Chesnut, UC Irvine, CA. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Graduate Student Researcher, Gun Violence in America: Understanding Illegal Gun Markets: A Multi-City, Multi-Method Study (Co-PIs: George Tita and Keramet Reiter). Four-city study of underground gun markets funded by the California Wellness Foundation and organized by the Chicago Crime Lab. Drafted IRB documents; helped draft interview instruments; conducted semistructured interview with detainees in Los Angeles County Jails; codded and analyzed interview data; drafted supplementary grant applications (including California Wellness Foundation, Haynes Foundation, NIJ, and NSF); management of aggregate public health dataset Research Assistant to Professor Karl Manheim, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Provided editorial assistance on the law review article, Karl Manheim, et. al., Rebooting California: Initiatives, Conventions, & Government Reform, 44 LOY. L. REV. 393 (2011); provided organizational support for the conference Rebooting California: Initiatives, Conventions, & Government Reform Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, September Research Assistant to Professor Samuel Pillsbury, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Provided editorial assistance for the book, Samuel H. Pillsbury, HOW CRIMINAL LAW WORKS (2009) and conducted literature reviews for the article, Samuel H.

10 Natalie Pifer curriculum vitae page 10 Pillsbury, Fear and Trembling in Criminal Judgment, 7 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 827 (2010). PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association Crime, Law and Deviance section Sociology of Law section American Society of Criminology Law and Society Association Punishment and Social Control collaborative research network Law and Ethnography collaborative research network UC Criminal Justice & Health Consortium Western Society of Criminology PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Elliott Currie, Professor, Criminology, Law & Society University of California, Irvine 2340 Social Ecology II Irvine, CA (949) ecurrie@uci.edu Keramet Reiter, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law University of California, Irvine 2340 Social Ecology II Irvine, CA (949) reiterk@uci.edu Kaaryn Gustafson, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center on Law, Equality and Race University of California, Irvine, School of Law 401 E. Peltason Drive Law 4800-U Irvine, CA (949) kgustafson@law.uci.edu Mona Lynch, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law University of California, Irvine 2340 Social Ecology II Irvine, CA (949) lynchm@uci.edu

11 Natalie Pifer curriculum vitae page 11 Alexandra Natapoff, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law Burns Albany St. Los Angeles, CA (213) Samuel Pillsbury, Professor of Law Burns Albany St. Los Angeles, CA (213) Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law & Society University of California, Berkeley, School of Law 592 Simon Hall Berkeley, CA (510) George Tita, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Planning, Policy & Design University of California, Irvine 2340 Social Ecology II (949)