He is also the Director of the School of Social Research and Justice Studies (link: http://www.unr.edu/ssrjs/) and is on the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Ph.D. Program (link: http://www.unr.edu/social-psychology). Clayton earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Ohio State University in 2005, and has been at the University of Nevada, Reno, since then.