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MSU Denver Experts Guide
Criminal Justice/Criminology
Pamela Ansburg
Department: Psychological Sciences
Title: Professor
Expertise: Reliability of eyewitness memory, Memory and aging, Memory improvement, Creativity, Problem solving
Brian Bagwell
Department: Human Services
Title: Associate Professor
Expertise: Workplace violence, critical incident stress management, trauma, treating claustrophobic firefighters, and perception of threat and deescalation of violence strategies for first responders, employers and mental health clinicians.
Andrea Borrego
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Assistant Professor
Expertise: Fatal police-citizen encounters, Policing, Tasers/CEDs, Incarceration, Prisons/jails, Body worn cameras, Intimate partner violence/domestic violence
Jennifer Bradford
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Associate Professor
Expertise: Terrorism/counterterrorism, mass-violence and extremism/Countering Violent Extremism, Federal law enforcement, Cybercrime and cyber threat analysis, Pretrial/bail Issues, Research ethics, Study abroad
Jennifer Capps
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Dean - School of Professional Studies
Expertise: Juvenile justice, Mental health, Gangs
Allison Cotton
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Professor
Expertise: Race and crime, Social causes of crime, The death penalty, Women and crime, Juvenile delinquency, Poverty and crime, Prison culture, Criminal justice and the media
William Gaines
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Lecturer
Expertise: Criminal investigation, Narcotic identification, DUI prosecutions, Advanced homicide investigation, Active shooter response, Mobile field force
Stacey Hervey
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Affiliate Professor
Expertise: Group violence, Hate crimes, Juvenile delinquency, Education, Internet safety, Online recruiting, Extremism
April Hill
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Title: Associate Professor and Program Director of Criminalistics
Expertise: Forensic chemistry (drugs, explosives, arson, paint analysis, gun-shot residue, blood alcohol testing, etc.)
Tricia Hudson-Matthew
Department: Human Services
Title: Associate Professor and Director, Center for Addiction Studies
Expertise: Mental health, domestic violence, self-esteem, addiction and substance abuse, motivational interviewing techniques and grief and loss, couples counseling
Barbara Koehler
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Criminal Law, Constitutional Law Issues, American Judicial System (courts).
LiYing Li
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Professor
Expertise: Community corrections, Criminological theories and social issues in China
Jeffrey London
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Professor
Expertise: Crime and marijuana, Medical marijuana, Demography of crime, School-to-prison pipeline, History of the U.S. drug war
Denise Mowder
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Associate Professor
Expertise: Trial practice, Investigations, Victim advocacy
Hyon Namgung
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Assistant Professor
Expertise: Policing (both American and Korean), Police organizations, Community policing
Marina Pereira
Department: Social Work
Title: Associate Dean - College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Expertise: Acculturation and assimilation changes in the U.S., Mental health issues of children, adolescents and families, Child abuse, Sexual abuse, Domestic violence, Loss and grief issues, Immigration, First-generation students, Service learning, Bilingual, Bicultural
Christine Pink
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Title: Assistant Professor, Director of Human Identification Laboratory
Expertise: Biological anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Archaeology of human skeletal remains (especially in the Peruvian Andes), Forensic anthropology (identification and analysis of human remains)
Rebecca Rivera-Serrano
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Affiliate Professor
Expertise: Dating and domestic violence, Probation, Anti death penalty, Predators who groom victims
Darlene Sampson
Department: Social Work
Title: Clinical Field Faculty and Equity Specialist Coordinator, WEEAC
Expertise: Trauma, Issues related to children of color, Police and community interactions, Educational challenges, pedagogy and curriculum, Over suspension of children of color, School/community consultation-particularly with black/brown communities, Racial bullying, Diversity/equity/inclusivity, Mental Health, General social work
Kevin Smith
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Affiliate Professor
Expertise: Policing, Corporate security, Utility security, Criminal investigations, Active shooter, SWAT tactics, Workplace violence, Policy and procedures
Rebecca Trammell
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Interim Associate Dean - College of Professional Studies
Expertise: Prison culture, Prison violence, Prison rape, Violence against incarcerated child molesters, Gender and prison violence, Restorative justice rituals
Andrew Traver
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Professor of Practice
Expertise: Federal law enforcement, Leadership, Ethnic street gangs, Illegal firearms trafficking, Overcoming organizational resistance to change
Sheryl Zajdowicz
Department: Biology
Title: Associate Professor
Expertise: Microbiology, Pathogenic microbiology, Infectious disease, Immunology, Select agents of bioterrorism, Molecular biology
