Criminal Justice, Ph.D. Alumni Profiles
Jehad Alyahya
Graduated: 2024
Dissertation: "Who Guards the Guardians? A Quantitative Analysis to Examine Police Corruption in the United States"
Sherry Siller
Graduated: 2024
Dissertation: "Modern Characteristics of Domestic Extremists: A study of Extremists in the United States"
Employment: Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement
Samantha Tosto
Graduated: 2024
Dissertation: "Evaluating De-Escalation Training at the National and Regional Levels: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Officer Perceptions and Use of Force"
Employment: Justice Researcher, RTI International
Tianyin Yu
Graduated: 2026
Dissertation: "Pretrial Detention, Case Outcomes, and Pretrial Recidivism Before and After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Natural Experiment"
Employment: The Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science
Gregory Wadsworth
Graduated: 2026
Dissertation: "The Ghost of the Shelves: A Sequential Quantitative Study of Book Banning and Libricide in the United States"
Employment: Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Saint Joseph's College of Maine
Sarbjeet Kaur
Graduated: 2026
Dissertation: "Unveiling the Dark Symbiosis: A Quantitative Exploration of Human Trafficking, Terrorism, and Socio-Political Dynamics in a Global Context"
Employment: Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Mitchell College
Kylie McCarthy
Graduated: 2026
Dissertation: "Digital Danger: A Mixed-Methods and Comparative Analysis of Cyberstalking Victimization"
Kristi Greenberg
Graduated: 2025
Dissertation: "Those That Guard the Abyss: A Mixed-Methods Study of Corrections Culture and Correctional Staff Suicide"
Employment: Assistant Director of Gender Based Violence Strategic Engagement, New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence
Penny Geyer
Graduated: 2023
Dissertation: "Evaluating the Panoptic Deterrent Effect of SkyWatch Surveillance Towers: A Mixed Methods Analysis"
Employment: Doctoral Lecturer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Michele Vittorio
Graduated: 2023
Dissertation: "More Click-Click, Less Bam-Bam: An Analysis of the Structure of a Contemporary Criminal Organization"
Employment: Director of the Center for Analytics, University of New Haven
Timothy Daty
Graduated: 2022
Dissertation: "Cheating from a Distance: An Examination of Academic Dishonesty Among University Students"
Employment: Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Mitchell College
Lanmeng Ma
Graduated: 2022
Dissertation: "The Effects of Family Structure Stability and Parenting Practices on Juvenile Delinquency: Variations by Immigrant Generational Status and Race/Ethnicity"
Employment: A professor at a university in China
Joe Dule
Graduated: 2021
Dissertation: "Estimating the Psychological Impact of Mass Shooting and Terrorist Attacks on Remote Populations"
Employment: Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Ohio Northern University
Eric Dlugolenski
Graduated: 2021
Dissertation: "Policing: Is Procedural Justice the Panacea for Order-Maintenance Policing?"
Employment: Assistant Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Central Conneticuit State University
Kathryn Kleis
Graduated: 2020
Dissertation: "The Cost of Caring: Exploring the Experience of Compassion Fatigue among Law Enforcement"
Employment: Criminal Justice Department Chair and Professor, Manchester Community College
Meredith Emigh-Guy
Graduated: 2019
Dissertation: "The More Things Change: An Analysis of the Characteristics of Homicide from 1980-2015"
Employment: Criminal Justice Department Chair and Assistant Professor, Saint Joseph's College of Maine
Tracy Tully
Graduated: 2019
Dissertation: "The Impact of Juvenile Mental Health, Family Factors, and Substance Use on Recidivism in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Analysis of the Pathways to Desistance Data"
Employment: Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, St. Thomas Anselm College
John Hitzeman
Graduated: 2019
Dissertation: "A Social Network Analysis Approach to Identify Predictors of Promotion and Correlation of Charged Corruption within the Chinese Communist Party"
Employment: Former Director of the Center for Analytics, University of New Haven
Kristin Elink-Schuurman-Laura
Graduated: 2019
Dissertation: "Impact of Forensic Databases on Arrest, Conviction, and Sentencing"
Employment: Assistant Teaching Professor, Florida International University
Joshua Regan
Graduated: 2018
Dissertation: "The Maritime Piracy Index"
Employment: Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Western New England University
Melissa Smith-Inglis
Graduated: 2018
Dissertation: "An Examination of Key Determinants of Violent Victimization, Violent Behavior and Injury Type in Prison: Is Prison Violence Triggered by Importation or Deprivation?"
Employment: Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, The University of Oklahoma
Jon Iadonisi
Graduated: 2018
Dissertation: "A Proposed Framework for Assessing Terrorist Exploitation of Social Networks"
Employment: Founder and CEO of VizSense
Alexis Candia-Meza
Graduated: 2018
Dissertation: "Understanding Factors that Impact Cyberbullying Offending & Victimization"
Employment: Senior Change Management Consultant, Dawson; Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice, Monmouth University
Francis Olive
Graduated: 2015
Dissertation: "The Impact of Policy Reforms in Segregation at the Hampden County Jail and House of Corrections"
Employment: Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Worcester State University