Patrick Lopez-Aguado is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Santa Clara University, and holds a PhD in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara. His research interests include juvenile justice, urban ethnography, and the collateral consequences of mass incarceration. He is currently writing a book manuscript titled Stick Together and Come Back Home: Carceral Affiliation and the Bridging of Prison and Community. This work examines how the racial and geographic sorting of inmates in California’s prison system as presumed gang affiliates affects residents in poor communities of color with high incarceration rates. He pays particular attention to how this influence shapes young people’s experiences in these neighborhoods with violence and criminal labeling. His recent work can also be seen in journals such as Social Problems and Sociology Compass. As a Bannan Scholar Dr. Lopez-Aguado will be examining how teenage boys’ perceptions and embodiments of masculinity are shaped by their exposure to institutional contexts that categorize and separate them as potential gang members.