Recently, Hollie Nyseth Brehm, assistant professor of sociology, won the 2018 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of criminology by someone who completed their graduate degree within the last five years. Nyseth Brehm received this award, which is the highest honor a junior scholar can receive in the discipline, for advancing knowledge on the criminology of genocide.