Director of Research
Cory Lowe was born and raised in Taylorsville, Georgia. He moved to Gainesville in 2016 to pursue his Ph.D. in criminology, law, and society at the University of Florida. At UF, he specialized in criminological theory, crime prevention, and research methods and defended his dissertation “Moral Communities in Chicago Neighborhoods: Examining the Relationship between Family and Neighborhood Religiosity and Youth Substance Use and Delinquency” in July 2020. He has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles, several chapters, and entries in edited volumes, and has presented his research at numerous regional and national conferences. Prior to attending the University of Florida, he received his B.A. in history and political science from Shorter University in Rome, Georgia; and his M.A. in sociology and criminology at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. His grandfather, Clayton Jackson Harris, is his hero.