Nicolette Bardele is a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State’s Criminal Justice Research Center. Her research and teaching interests are at the intersection of criminal justice, rural and urban sociology, and social inequality. She has used both qualitative and quantitative methods to study how spatial and temporal context shape the experience and administration of probation/parole across communities along the rural-urban continuum in the United States. Bardele received her master of arts degree and doctoral degree in sociology from Harvard University and her bachelor of arts in sociology and statistics from the University of Notre Dame.