Cassia Cathleen Spohn is a Foundation Professor at Arizona State University, where she is also the director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
[1] Spohn joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1978 as an assistant professor in the Goodrich Scholarship Program.
In 1987, she was appointed a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice there, a position she held until joining Arizona State University in 2006.
[3][4][5] In 1987, the Supreme Court of the United States cited her research in the landmark capital punishment case McCleskey v.
[1] In 2013, she received the Faculty Achievement Award for Defining Edge Research in Social Sciences from Arizona State University.