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WashU Sociology's Fall 2025 Colloquium Series: Marisa Omori

The WashU Sociology Colloquium Series invites visiting scholars to share their work, while contributing to the general intellectual culture of the WashU Sociology Department.

Join the WashU Department of Sociology for our second installment of the Fall 2025 Colloquium Series, featuring Prof. Marisa Omori. 

Presentation Title: "Mechanisms of Racial Inequality in Punishment 'Hotspots'"

Marisa Omori is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri - St. Louis (UMSL). She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in Criminology, Law & Society and, prior to her current position, worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami. Her research focuses on the racialization of crime control, including racial inequality within criminal justice institutions, courts and sentencing, and punishment and social control. Specifically, her work investigates questions of how racial inequality is created and maintained within the criminal justice system, and how context and place matters for this inequality.

More about our guest: https://profiles.umsl.edu/en/persons/marisa-omori 


Colloquia are open to a broader WashU audience; however, space is limited. 
Students who are interested in more advanced sociological inquiry are strongly encouraged to attend.