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Education
Awards & Honors
Selected Research

Current Courses

CJS 338.001 Alcohol, Drugs, And Crime

CJS 338.002 Alcohol, Drugs, And Crime

CJS 499.017 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

CJS 400.019 Independent Study

CJS 291.019 Undergraduate Teaching Experience In Criminal Justice Sciences

Ph D

University of Delaware

MA

University of Delaware

BA

University of Denver

University Research Initiative Award

Illinois State University

2025

Outstanding Service Award

Shepherd University

2023

Outstanding Student Paper Award

Society for the Study of Social Problems: Social Problems Theory Division

2021

Grants and Contracts

Methamphetamine, opioids & fentanyl in rural Illinois: An ethnographic exploration of current and emerging issues

Joshua Stout, Kate Sheridan, Theresa Adelman- Mullally, Frank Dwight Beck, Cherrill Stockmann, Anjelica Dominguez, Ralph Weisheit, Christopher Brewer, Kim.

Illinois State University. 2025 - 2026

Methamphetamine, Opioids & Fentanyl in rural Illinois: An ethnographic exploration of current and emerging issues.

Theresa Adelman- Mullally, Kate Sheridan, Ralph Weisheit, Christopher Brewer, Cherrill Stockmann, Frank Dwight Beck, Doris Houston, Joshua Stout.

Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship. August 2023

Book, Chapter

Belonging and Empowerment: Experiences of Community Support Following a Drug-Related Death

Joshua H. Stout, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner.

(2024), Routledge International Handbook of Drug-Related Death Bereavement

Journal Article

Stigmatization in the pre-death interactions of family and friends bereaved by a drug-related death

Joshua Stout, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner.

Death Studies, (2025)

Just What the Doctor Ordered: Medicinal Alcohol, Opioid Prescriptions, and the Accessibility of Folk Devils

Joshua H. Stout.

Deviant Behavior, (2023)

Stigmatized Bereavement: A Qualitative Study on the Impacts of Stigma for Those Bereaved by a Drug-Related Death