Faculty and Staff
The faculty of the Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice include professors trained in a wide range of academic disciplines, including Criminology, Criminal Justice, Anthropology, History, Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Administration, Psychology and Sociology. Our faculty have received grants from the National Institute of Health, Department of Homeland Security, National Institute of Justice, National Science Foundation, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Guggenheim Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and other federal agencies and leading foundations.
The program is supported by dedicated staff.
Faculty

Amy Adamczyk
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Criminal Justice

George Andreopoulos
Professor
- Criminal Justice
Professor
- Political Science

Jana Arsovska
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

Rosemary Barberet
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Warren "Ned" Benton
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Teresa A. Booker
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

David Brotherton
Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Criminal Justice
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- International Migration Studies

Heath Brown
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice
Associate Professor
- International Migration Studies
Associate Professor
- Urban Education

Jeffrey A. Butts
Faculty
- Criminal Justice

Katarzyna Celinska
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

Preeti Chauhan
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

Mark Fondacaro
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Joshua D. Freilich
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Maria (Maki) Haberfeld
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Jonathan Jacobs
Professor
- Philosophy
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Lila Kazemian
Professor
- Criminal Justice
Professor
- Social Welfare

David Kennedy
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Lawrence Kobilinsky
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Deborah Koetzle
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Thomas Kubic
Professor
- Criminal Justice
Professor
- Chemistry

Brian Lawton
Executive Officer and Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

Richard Li
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

Samantha Majic
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

Marie-Helen Maras
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

Keith A. Markus
Professor
- Educational Psychology
Professor
- Criminal Justice
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Jeff Mellow
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Mangai Natarajan
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Patrick O'Hara
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Nicholas D. K. Petraco
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

Gohar Petrossian
Deputy Executive Officer and Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

Frank Pezzella
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

Henry N. Pontell
Distinguished Professor
- Criminal Justice

Mechthild Prinz
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

Chitra Raghavan
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Valli Rajah
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice

John Reffner
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Hung-En Sung
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Karen Terry
Professor and Academic Advisor
- Criminal Justice

Mark D. Ungar
Professor
- Liberal Studies
Professor
- Criminal Justice
Professor
- Political Science

Cathy Spatz Widom
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Criminal Justice

Kevin Wolff
Associate Professor and Research Advisor
- Criminal Justice

Sung-suk Violet Yu
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice
Administrative Staff

Kathy Mora
Doctoral Program Assistant
- Criminal Justice

Shari Rodriguez-Vasquez
Assistant Program Officer
- Criminal Justice