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 ongoing scholarship employs mixed methods to understand how individuals and groups engage in privacy and collective action strategies to manage and navigate criminal-system contact. His emerging research program focuses on how residents negotiate pervasive neighborhood stigma, policing logics, and access to social services. Previously, his work explored communication behaviors of first-time parents in the U.S. and U.K., and of early dating interracial/ethnic college partners. 

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Most recently, Salvador was a visiting student at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark and in the Department of Sociology at New York University. In addition to his doctoral studies, he serves as a part-time lecturer, teaching assistant, and research assistant in the Department of Communication, as well as a graduate mentor fellow at the Honors College at Rutgers University. He has 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, American Society of Criminology, National Communication Association, and International Communication Association.  

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