Salvador Guzmán Villegas (he/his/él) is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. His research focuses on the communicative processes of carcerality and social inequalities. His recent scholarship uses mixed methods to understand how individuals and groups engage in privacy strategies to manage and navigate criminal-system contact. He also focuses on the communicative role of race and ethnicity in criminalizing sociopolitical conditions and institutions. 

 

Most recently, Salvador was a visiting student in the Department of Sociology at New York University and was a research assistant in the Assistant Dean's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the School of Communication and Information. In addition to his doctoral studies, he serves as a part-time lecturer, teaching assistant, and research assistant for the Department of Communication. He held adjunct lecturer positions at Seton Hall University, California State University, Los Angeles, and George Mason University.

 

Salvador is an active member of the American Sociological Association, Eastern Communication Association, International Association for Relationship Research, International Communication Association, and National Communication Association.  

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