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.
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Name, Dept., Title |
Degrees | Areas of Expertise |
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Amy Adamczyk (Sociology) |
PhD, Pennsylvania State University; MA, Graduate Center/ Queens College - CUNY | Religion, deviance and crime, sociological theory, health |
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Alex Alexandrou (Security, Fire, & Emergency Management) |
BA in Telecommunication, Youngstown State Univ.; MFA in TV Production, Brooklyn College; DPS in Computing Studies, Pace University | Mobile forensics investigation, mobile devices vulnerabilities and threats, wireless networking and wireless vulnerabilities and exploits, security and privacy |
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George Andreopoulos (Political Science) |
BA, University of Chicago; LLB, Cambridge University; JD, University of Athens; PhD, Cambridge University | International relations, international law and organizations, human rights |
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Jana Arsovska (Sociology) Associate Professor |
BA, American College of Thessaloniki; MA, PhD, Catholic University of Leuven | Organized crime, corruption & state crime, Balkan studies, culture and crime |
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Rosemary Barberet (Sociology) Full Professor |
BA, Georgetown University, MA, University of Massachusetts, Ph.D., University of Maryland | Comparative criminology, victimology, gender and crime, Spain/Europe. |
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Avram Bornstein (Anthropology) |
BA, Beloit College, MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University | Arab-Israeli conflict, community policing, police training, race relations, borders, political violence, political prisoners, social movements |
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Katarzyna Celinska |
MA University of Warsaw (Law), PhD University of Utah, (Sociology) |
Violence prevention, program evaluation, impact of imprisonment on offenders and their families, women’s issues in criminal justice |
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Marcia Esparza |
BA, Hunter College, CUNY, Ph.D., The State University of New York at Albany |
Genocide, Transitional Justice (Truth Commissions, International Tribunals and Historical Memory) & Comparative Criminal Justice |
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Joshua Freilich |
PhD, MA, University at Albany, SUNY; JD, Brooklyn Law School | Terrorism, bias crimes, school shootings, open source research, environmental criminology, crime prevention |
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Maria Haberfeld (Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration) Full Professor |
BA, MA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; MPhil, PhD, The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY | Comparative policing with emphasis on counter-terrorism, use of force and ethics, comparative criminal justice |
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Jay Hamilton (Economics) Assistant Professor |
BA, University of Redlands, MA, Ph.D. University of California, Riverside | The nature of gift giving/sharing of illegal drugs & other non-monetary transactions; Fraud Waste, Abuse, & Corruption (FWAC) in government; and equity dimensions of criminal justice policy |
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Susan Kang (Political Science) Associate Professor |
BA, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, PhD, University of Minnesota | International relations, international organizations and law, and economic and social rights |
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Veronica Michel-Luviano |
BA, UNAM, MA, University of Minnesota, Ph.D., University of Minnesota | Legal norms and institutions, norm diffusion, human rights, victims’ rights, legal mobilization/litigation, rule of law in transitional societies |
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Mangai Natarajan (Criminal Justice) Full Professor |
BS, MA, University of Madras, MA, Diploma in Indo-Japanese Studies, University of Madras, PhD, Rutgers University | Crime prevention, domestic violence, women police, comparative criminology, international criminal justice and transnational organized crime; Asia/India |
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Gohar Petrossian |
BA, Hartwick College, MA, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Ph.D., Rutgers University | Wildlife crime, spatial and temporal patterns of crime, environmental criminology and opportunity theories, crime prevention, problem-oriented policing, quantitative methods |
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Peter Romaniuk (Political Science) Associate Professor |
BA, BA, LLB, University of Adelaide, AM, PhD, Brown University | International security, terrorism and counter-terrorism, international organizations, sanctions. |
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Jennifer Rutledge |
BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD University of Minnesota | Public policy, comparative politics, human rights and social policy in developing countries |
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Edward Snajdr |
BA, Northwestern University; PhD, University of Pittsburgh | Cultural analysis, political/legal anthropology, gender violence, ethnicity, environmentalism, nationalism, gentrification and urban redevelopment, geographic areas: East Europe, Central Asia, North America |
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Itai Sneh |
BA, Hebrew University, Israel, LLB, MA, McGill University, PhD Columbia University | Human rights, genocide, American legal history |
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Hung-En Sung |
Licentiate, Universidad de Belgrano; MA, Ph.D. University at Albany, Certificate in Intl. Relations, New York Univ. | Drug abuse and its treatment, corrections, political corruption, policing, comparative criminal justice, and program evaluation |
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Yuliya Zabelina |
B.A., National Taras Shevchenko Pedagogical University of Luhansk, M.A., Jacobs Univ. Bremen, Ph.D., Univ. of Trento | Organized and transnational crime, international relations |
Adjunct Faculty
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Degrees | Areas of Expertise |
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Nora M. Cronin |
BA, Mary Washington College; J.D., St. John’s University School of Law | Human trafficking, gender and the law, public policy |
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Craig A. Dudley |
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Botswana; M.S., Joint Campaign Planning and Strategy, National Defense University; M.A., Political Science, Washington State University; B.A., Political Science, Washington State University | Intelligence, national security, transnational organized crime, illicit trafficking |
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Rebecca Hollender |
B.S. Biological Aspects of Conservation, B.S. Zoology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A. Development Studies, Ph.D. in Public and Urban Policy, The New School for Public Engagement | Environmental and development policy, sustainable development, climate change, environmental conservation, indigenous and grassroots social movements, and political theories of socioeconomic transformation |
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John F. Hussey |
B.A., Criminal Justice, Iona College; M.B.A., Finance, Manhattan College; M.PA., Human Resources, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; M.A., Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Ph.D., Criminal Justice, The City University of New York; MPhil, Criminal Justice, The City University of New York; M.S.S., Strategic Studies, United States Army War College | Criminal justice, the court system, failed and fragile states, developing rule of law in failed and fragile states |
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Isa Karasioglu |
B.A. Criminal Justice, Turkish National Police Academy; M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology, Columbia University | Politics of identity (ethnicity & nationalism), hegemony, anthropology of the Middle East and the Caucasus, radicalization, anthropology and crime |
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Jeffrey Locke |
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; J.D., Columbia University School of Law | Investigations, sanction monitoring, white collar crimes, corruption, anti-money laundering, terrorism, war crimes, organized crime |
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David Marvelli |
B.A, Criminal Justice & Minor, English, John Jay College; M.S., Criminal Justice, Roger Williams Univ.; Ph.D., Criminal Justice, Rutgers University | Transnational organized crime, organized crime, terrorism, national security policy |
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M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos |
Ph.D., Political Science, The Graduate Center-CUNY; J.D., Law School of Saragossa, Spain | Accountability, counter-terrorism, civil rights |
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M.A., International Political Economy and Development, Fordham University; B.A., Economics, Fribourg University, Switzerland | Women’s rights; mass atrocities prevention; gender justice; gender, peace, and security; conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence. | |
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Marie-Michelle Strah |
B.A. and B.A.I.S, Miami University; M.A., John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Ph.D., Cornell University | Cybercrime, online extremism, disinformation, counterterrorism, terrorist finance, transnational organized crime |
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Joe Zelasney |
BA, Univ. of Colorado; MA, Univ. of Washington’s School of Marine Affairs; Certificate in Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics Studies | Transnational crime, environmental crime, illegal fishing |