CSDE Welcomes 2 New External Research Affiliates in Winter Quarter 2025

Posted: 2/13/2025 ()

CSDE is pleased to introduce two of our new External Research Affiliates! Michele Cadigan, (Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona State University) utilizes mixed methodologies to examine intersectional inequality at the intersection of the criminal legal system and economic markets, with a primary focus on cannabis legalization and a secondary focus on monetary sanctions. Salene Jones (Associate Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) is a psychologist whose research focuses on cancer care delivery, the patient experience and quality of life. She is particularly interested in psychometrics, which is the development of valid and reliable questionnaires for patient-reported outcomes to assess pain, depression, anxiety and other facets of quality of life. Learn more about each affiliate in the full story!

Michele Cadigan – Dr. Michele Cadigan’s work utilizes mixed methodologies to examine intersectional inequality at the intersection of the criminal legal system and economic markets, with a primary focus on cannabis legalization and a secondary focus on monetary sanctions. Specifically, she explores how laws and practices in economic markets and the criminal legal system intersect to construct racial meaning and shape inequality at both macro- and meso-levels. Her work has been published in The Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Russell Sage Foundation: RSF Journal for the Social Sciences, and the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. Additionally, her work has been supported by national funding organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Research.

Salene Jones – Dr. Salene Jones is a psychologist whose research focuses on cancer care delivery, the patient experience and quality of life. She is particularly interested in psychometrics, which is the development of valid and reliable questionnaires for patient-reported outcomes to assess pain, depression, anxiety and other facets of quality of life. A member of the health economics group, the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, Dr. Jones also examines the association of financial worry and anxiety with outcomes in people with cancer. Her research includes studies of the relationship of health anxiety and fear of cancer to health care use and cancer prevention.