Gohar

Petrossian

DR. GOHAR PETROSSIAN is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and the Executive Officer of the Criminal Justice Doctoral Program at the City University of New York Graduate Center. A crime scientist, her research focuses on crimes against wildlife. She has published over 70 scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs on this subject and is the author of The Last Fish Swimming: The Global Crime of Illegal Fishing (2019). 

In recent years Dr Petrossian has been invited to serve as a panelist and guest speaker by international organizations and institutions, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Wildlife and Environmental Crimes Unit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation-New York; the Wildlife Conservation Society; and Flora and Fauna. In addition, she has consulted for a wide range of organizations—including UNODC, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Animal Protection, Fauna & Flora, the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, Earth League International, and others—on projects addressing such environmental crime problems as wildlife trafficking, illegal fishing, hazardous waste trafficking, and illegal gold mining.

Her research has been featured by Yale Environment Review, National Geographic, PBS Nature, The Center for International Maritime Security, the U.S. Naval Institute, Global Fishing Watch, and CUNY Newswire.