She is currently working on a variety of projects that reflect her larger research agenda on neighborhoods, race and violence as central to social disorganization theory. In 2005, Kubrin received the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology and the Morris Rosenberg Award for Recent Achievement from the District of Columbia Sociological Society. In 2007, she was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Criminology at Oxford University. Kubrin served as president of the District of Columbia Sociological Society in 2007-2008. She currently is heading up the Dean’s Scholars in Globalization Program at The George Washington University. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington in 2000.