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 Barberet

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

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

Craig Dudley

Artificial intelligence, illicit network in Africa, multinational intelligence operations

Suray Duygulu

Transnational crime, terrorism, comparative policing

 

Rebecca Hollender

Environmental policy, political theories, economic transformation

John Hussey

Terrorism, combat operations, homeland security

Isa Karasioglu

Ethnicity & nationalism, anthropology & crime

Leonid Lantsman

International program design and management, international narcotics law enforcement

David Marvelli

Transnational organized crime, intelligence analysis

Jelena Pia-Comella

Women’s rights, gender justice, gender, peace & security

Maria Victoria Perez-Rios

Accountability, counter-terrorism, civil rights

Staci Strobl

Comparative criminal justice, policing, Bahrain, gender justice

Yuliya Zabyelina

Transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, corruption