Our Faculty
The multicultural and multilingual faculty for the International Crime and Justice Program come from a broad range of departments, including Sociology, Political Science, Criminal Justice, Law, Police Science, & Criminal Justice Administration, Anthropology, Economics, Psychology, African American Studies and Latin American & Latino/a Studies. They have written highly regarded books, articles and reports on international issues; served as consultants to the United Nations, World Bank, INTERPOL, USAID, DEA and other national and international organizations; obtained research funding from prestigious agencies; and received awards for their research and teaching.
CORE FACULTY
George Andreopoulos |
Professor |
Political Science |
Civil rights & liberties, human rights, human trafficking |
Jana Arsovska |
Associate Professor |
Sociology |
Organized crime, human trafficking, drug trafficking, corruption, Balkan criminality |
Rosemary Barbaret |
Professor |
Sociology |
International criminal justice, victimology, women & crime |
Katarzyna Celinska |
Associate Professor |
Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration |
Corrections, violence prevention program evaluation, women in prison |
Marcia Esparza |
Professor |
Criminal Justice |
Genocide, historical memory, legacies, colonialism, critical human rights, military sociology |
Maria (Maki) Haberfeld |
Professor |
Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration |
Policing with emphasis on comparative, training, leadership, integrity & ethics, counter-terrorism |
Jay Hamilton |
Assistant Professor |
Economics |
Illegal transactions, policy analysis, illegal justice and economic justice, drug trafficking |
Noam Haviv |
Assistant Professor |
Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration |
Corrections, prisons, research methods and quantitative statistics, policing |
Susan Kang |
Associate Professor |
Political Science |
International law, human rights, trade unions, international organizations, international political economy |
Veronica Michel |
Associate Professor |
Political Science |
Prosecutorial accountability, victims’ rights, human rights, comparative criminal justice, Latin America |
Mangai Natarajan |
Professor |
Criminal Justice |
Criminological theory, international crime and justice, women and criminal justice, crime mapping, situational crime prevention |
Gohar Petrossian |
Associate Professor |
Criminal Justice |
Environmental criminology, opportunity theory, wildlife trafficking, quantitative research |
Peter Romaniuk |
Associate Professor |
Political Science |
Terrorism, violent extremism, global governance, counter terrorism, terrorist financing |
Jennifer Rutledge |
Associate Professor |
Political Science |
International criminal law, comparative politics, public policy, environmental justice |
ASSOCIATE FACULTY
Amy Adamczyk |
Professor |
Sociology |
Religion, deviance & crime, sociological theory, sexuality, health |
John Gutierrez |
Assistant Professor |
Latin American & Latina/o Studies |
Latin America, Cuba, history of medicine & disease |
Chitra Raghavan |
Professor |
Psychology |
Psychological analysis of crime, domestic violence, gender & violence |
Edward Snajdr |
Professor |
Anthropology |
Cultural analysis, political anthropology, ethnicity, nationalism |
Itai Sneh |
Associate Professor |
History |
Human rights, American foreign policy, terrorism, the Middle East |
Stacie Strobl |
Professor (Shenandoah University) |
Criminology & Criminal Justice |
Comparative criminal justice, policing, Bahrain, gender justice |
Hung-En Sung |
Professor |
Criminal Justice |
Justice reform in transnational societies, police-capacity building |
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Nora Cronin |
Human trafficking, gender & the law, public policy |
Suray Duygulu |
Transnational crime, terrorism, comparative policing |
Rebecca Hollender |
Environmental policy, political theories, economic transformation |
Isa Karasioglu |
Ethnicity & nationalism, anthropology & crime |
Jelena Piacomella |
Women’s rights, gender justice, gender, peace & security |
Maria Victoria Perez-Rios |
Accountability, counter-terrorism, civil rights |