Ariel Ludwig

Assistant Professor and Department Chair

Faculty School of Arts, Sciences & Business Criminology/Sociology Department
aludwig@ndm.edu Knott Science Center (KNO) 224C
Ariel Ludwig
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Education

  • Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2020
  • Doctoral Coursework (Transferred with Advisor) | University of Texas Medical Branch, 2015
  • Graduate Certificate in Bioethics | University of South Florida, 2014
  • Master of Public Health (MPH) | Yale University, 2008
  • Bachelor of Arts in English Literature | Kenyon College, 2004

Certifications & Licensure

  • Inclusive Mediation Training, 2023
  • Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program Certification, 2023
  • Basic and Advanced Healing Circle Host Certification, 2023
  • Principles of Teaching Excellence, 2020–2021
  • Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Doctoral Summit Scholar, 2019
  • Winter School, Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society, 2018
  • National Humanities Center Triangle University Internship Program, 2018
  • CITI Certification
  • NIH Human Subject Protection Certification

Research

Publications

  1. Ludwig, A., Monico, L., Blue, T., Gordon, M., Schwartz, R.P., & Mitchell, S.G. (2022). “Developing and Piloting a Checklist for the Implementation of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Jail.” Implementation Research and Practice.
  2. Ludwig, A. S., (2021). “From Criminal Man to Carceral Bodies: Intake in the New York City jails.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.
  3. Ludwig, A., Monico, L., Lertch, E., Gryczynski, J., Schwartz, R., Fishman, M., Dionne, R., & Mitchell, S. (2021). “Until There’s Nothing Left?: Adolescents and Young Adults with Opioid Use Disorders and Caregiver Resource Provision Following Residential Treatment.” Substance Abuse.
  4. Ludwig, A. S., Monico, L., Lertch, E., Gryczynski, J., Schwartz, R.P., Fishman, M., Dionne, R., & Mitchell, S.G. (2021). “Drug and Sexual HIV-Risk Behaviors among Adolescents and Young Adults with Opioid Use Disorder.” Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (JSAT).
  5. Monico, L., Ludwig, A., Lertch, E., Dionne, R., Fishman, M., Schwartz, R., & Mitchell, S. (2021). “Post-Residential Treatment Outpatient Care Preferences: Perspectives of Youth with Opioid Use Disorders.” Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (JSAT).
  6. Monico, L., Ludwig, A., Lertch, E., Dionne, R., Fishman, M., Schwartz, R., & Mitchell, S. (2021). “Opioid overdose experiences in a sample of US adolescents and young adults: a thematic analysis.” Addiction.
  7. Monico, L., Ludwig, A., Lertch, E., & Mitchell, S. (2020). “Using timeline methodology to visualize treatment trajectories of youth and young adults following inpatient opioid treatment.” International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
  8. Ludwig, A. S., & Peters, R. H. (2014). “Medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorders in correctional settings: An ethics review.” International Journal of Drug Policy.
  9. Ludwig, A., Cohen, L. & Venters, H. (2012). “Injury Surveillance in New York City Jails.” American Journal of Public Health.

Funding & Grants

  • COMPACT Course Development Grant ($1,000) | Samuels Center for Community Partnership and Civic Transformation, 2023
  • Conference Award ($25,000) | Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center, 2022
  • Sponsored Digital Research Project ($6,400) | University of Houston Libraries’ Digital Research Services, 2022
  • Justice Through Community Grant ($9,000) | University of Houston Honors College, 2021
  • Dissertation Grant ($1,500) | Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention, 2015–2016
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Seeding Galveston ($20,000) | 2015–2016
  • President’s Cabinet Award Winner ($47,900) | UTMB, 2014–2015

Presentations

  • Ludwig, A. (2022, April). “Making the Digital Carceral Body: Matters of sovereignty in community-engaged digital humanities.” DH@UH, Houston, TX.
  • Ludwig, A. (2022, March). “Carceral Undoing: A history of carceral data and a dream for the future.” The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute, Houston, TX.
  • Ludwig, A. (2021, November). “The Carceral Body Multiple: An approach to abolitionist science and technology studies.” Philosophy of Science Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD.
  • Ludwig, A. (2021, August). “This Circuitous Route: Studying Carceralities.” Johns Hopkins University Humanities Collaboratory, Baltimore, MD.
  • Ludwig, A. (2021, April). “Dr. Goodman is Right on the Job: Gender and the Politics of Public Health during the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.” Virginia Humanities Conference.
  • Ludwig, A. (2021, March). “Digital Carceralities: The Making of Body Multiples in the New York City jails.” University of Houston, Houston, TX.
  • Ludwig, A. (2020, October). “Predictive Policing in the Age of AI.” Virginia Science Museum Virtual Lunch Break Science Talk.
  • Ludwig, A. (2020, July). “Masks: Retrospective of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.” Virginia Science Museum Virtual Lunch Break Science Talk.
  • Ludwig, A. (2019, September). “Carceral Securities: The Digital and Analog Making of Securitized Bodies in the New York City Jails.” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Awards

  • Undergraduate Research Mentor of Excellence (Nominated), 2021
  • Alpha Epsilon Lambda Graduate Student Honor Society, 2018–2020
  • Virginia Tech Interdisciplinary Research Honor Society, 2018–2020
  • Presidential Scholar, University of Texas Medical Branch, 2015–2016
  • Who’s Who Student, 2015–2016