Associate Professor Logan Lee Receives Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society

Since 1933 the American Philosophical Society has awarded small grants to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. This year, Logan Lee, Grinnell College associate professor of economics was awarded a $6,000 Franklin Research Grant.  

This grant will help advance Lee’s research on how new modes of training correctional officers can affect behavior and recidivism among incarcerated people. Lee has been collaborating with Dr. Amanda Rebar (Central Queensland University) and the New South Wales Behavioral Insights Team to assess a new training for correctional officers designed to promote inmate rehabilitation. The grant will allow him to travel to Australia to access data on the training and its impacts. This project adds an international dimension to Lee's body of research on prisons, which has also involved collaborations with the state department of corrections in both Iowa and Oregon. 

“I’m so thankful to the American Philosophical Society for funding this important research and I am excited to expand our understanding of the ways in which correctional officers impact the lives and rehabilitation of the prisoners with whom they work,” said Lee.