Criminal Justice, Ph.D. Student Profiles
Current Students

Jehad Alyahya
Research Interests
Police corruption, Organized Crime, Terrorism, Law Enforcement Investigations and Response, Application of Criminological Theories

Joseph Cusano
Research Interests
Cyber Forensics and Cybersecurity, Cybercrimes, Evidence-based Policing, Police-community Relationships, Policing, Secondary Traumatic Stress

Sudeshna Das
Research Interests
Sexual Deviance, Crime Mapping & Analysis, Juvenile Justice, Criminological Theories

Victoria Espinoza
Research Interests
Gender, Race, Reentry, Rehabilitation, Risk assessment and Trauma

Agnetha Gillbanks
Research Interests
Drug abuse, Drug trafficking, Substance-using behaviors, Mental health and crime, and Violent crimes

Kristi Greenberg
Research Interests
Correctional Practices and Institutional Cultures; Street Gangs within a Correctional Setting; Sex Offender Registration Policy and Public Perception; Barriers for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victims

Patryk Jaroszkiewicz
Research Interests
Policing, Police (Culture, Training, Management), International Law Enforcement, Comparative Research, Qualitative Research, Evidence Based Practices

Jasmine Kaur
Research Interests
Application of Criminological Theories in Cyber Space, Risk assessment, Research Methods, Evaluations, Statistics, Forensic Science

Kylie McCarthy
Research Interests
Forensic Science, Biosocial Criminology, Domestic Terrorism, and Interrogations

Ashley McDowell
Research Interests
Gun Violence, Victimization, Intimate Partner Violence, Police/Community Relations, Law Enforcement Training, Mental Health & Suicide Prevention, Intersection of Victims and Law Enforcement.

Jane Miller
Research Interests
Criminalistics and Forensic Science, Reentry, Solitary Confinement

Jessica Morgan
Research Interests
Critical Criminology, Youth Justice, Transformative Justice, Racial and Ethnic Disparity, Incarceration

Teresina G. Robbins
Research Interests
Policing, Investigations, Training, Research Translation

Mariah Robles
Research Interests
Juvenile justice, corrections, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, recidivism, family violence and intergenerational trauma

Sherry Siller
Research Interests
Domestic Terrorism, Mental Illness in Criminal Populations, and the Economic Impacts of Over Policing

Samantha Tosto
Research Interests
Police-community relations; gender; racial and ethnic disparities; critical criminology; research methodology; evaluation

Megan Trafford
Research Interests
Mental Health and CJS Involvement; Intersections of Race, Gender, Class, Culture and Crime; Causes and Consequences of Wrongful Convictions; Victimization; Critical Criminology; Criminal Competencies and Forensic Psychology

Tsung Tsai
Research Interests
Cyber Forensics, Application of Criminological Theories in Cyberspace, Cybercrime Evolution and Patterns, Computer and Cybersecurity

Gregory Wadsworth
Research Interests
Corrections and Incarceration, Mental Illness ,Reentry, Statistics and Data Analysis, Research Methods

Mengbei Wang
Research Interests
Wrongful Convictions, Policing, Law Enforcement Training, Criminalistics and Forensic Science, and Investigations

Jing Xiao
Research Interests
Human Trafficking, Mental Illness, International Policing, Research Methods, and Applications of Criminological Theory

Tianyin Yu
Research Interests
Juvenile Delinquency, Early Intervention, Biosocial Criminology

Ewa Zielinska
Research Interests
Implementation and Evaluation Research, Trauma and Resiliency, Policing, Juvenile Justice, Corrections and Reentry, Mindfulness and Mental Health, Restorative Justice, Data Visualization

Alban J. Zohn
Research Interests
Sports and Esports Crime, Organized Crime, Match-Fixing, and White-Collar Crime