Jeremy Barnum is a doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». He graduated from Rutgers University Newark in 2014 with his Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. His research interests include police use of force, officer safety, health and wellness, and crime prevention.
Anthony Branchini is a third-year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». He graduated from the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» with his Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. His research interests include officer discretion, dehumanization, and police use of force.
Chelsea Wheeler-Mayo is a doctoral candidate in the Criminal Justice Department of UNLV. She graduated from Western Illinois University in 2019 with her Master of Science in experimental psychology. Her research interests include sexual victimization, especially within the military institution. Her dissertation research explores the effects of cultural and institutional betrayal on sexual victimization experiences of military members.
Education
M.S. Experimental Psychology, Western Illinois State University (2019)
B.S. Criminal Justice and Psychology, Fort Hays State University (2017)
Nicole Cebak is a third-year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2021 with her Master of Science degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her research interests include victimization, focused in stalking, and immigration and crime.
Education
M.S. Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Texas at El Paso (2021)
B.A. Criminal Justice, University of Texas at El Paso (2019)
Deena DeVore is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019 with her Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include community policing, focused deterrence strategies, and procedural and restorative justice theories.
Education
M.A. Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Reno (2019)
B.A. Criminal Justice, University of Nevada Reno (2017)
Laurel Dietrich is first-year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» in 2024 with her Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include victimization, domestic violence, and the role of social factors on criminal behavior.
Tanya Dudinskaya is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» in 2020 with her Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include public attitudes of police and police use of body-worn cameras and drone technology and the implications of these devices.
Kaylee Faria is a third-year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from California State University, Fullerton in 2020 with two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Sociology and Criminal Justice, as well as the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» in 2023 with her Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include juvenile delinquency, risk assessment measurements, collateral consequences, and institutional programming.
Education
B.A. Sociology, California State University, Fullerton (2020)
B.A. Criminal Justice, California State University, Fullerton (2020)
Christopher Forepaugh is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». He graduated from the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» in 2020 with his Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. His research interests include hate crimes, police use of force, police-community relations, drug policy, violent crime, and crime pattern analysis.
Education
M.A. Criminal Justice, Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» (2020)
B.A. Criminal Justice and Psychology, Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» (2017)
Qingyang HONG is a first-year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». He graduated from University of Macau in 2023 with his Master of Social Science degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research interests include policing, the death penalty and social control in China, sociology of law and crime.
Education
M.S. Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Macau (2023)
B.A. Journalism, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2020)
Rachel Housden is a second-year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 2019 with her Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology, Law, and Society. Her research interests include police-community relations, corrections, and wrongful convictions.
Education
B.A. Criminology, Law, and Society, University of California, Irvine (2019)
Bo Ra (Bora) Jung is a doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from Boston University in 2023 with a Master of Science in Criminal Justice and Pennsylvania State University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Criminology. Her research interests include cybercrime, darknet investigations, financial crimes, and cryptocurrency.
I am a first-year post-Bach PhD student in the Criminal Justice Department at Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». I graduated from Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» in 2024 with my Bachelors of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. My research interests include, but are not limited to, victimization among youth and offenders, re-entry programs from correctional institutions, and sex crime prevention.
Elisha Longoria a first year Ph.D student in the Criminal Justice Department at Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from Sam Houston State University, Huntsville in 2023 with her Masters of Science in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include gender based differences in individuals under community supervision and community supervision needs in rural areas.
Education
M.S. Criminal Justice
Sam Houston State University, Huntsville (2023)
B.A. Psychology
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (2021)
Leobardo Lopez is a fourth-year PhD student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». He graduated from UNLV in 2020 with his Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. His research interests include police use of force, police militarization, and public perceptions.
Khaing Lynn is a third-year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from Portland State University in 2021 with her Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include police use of force, protest policing, and militarization of police forces.
Education
M.S. Criminal Justice, Portland State University (2021)
Teresa Marie is a 3rd year PhD student, she is projected to graduate this upcoming May 2025. Her dissertation is an interdisciplinary qualitative study where she is interviewing stakeholders in the foster care system asking their perceptions of factors that contribute to failed permanency placements. She is currently the UNLV Graduate and Professional Student Association President. Teresa is a licensed attorney in New Mexico and worked as a judicial law clerk for Clark County Family Court - Dependency Division before returning to school for her PhD. Addition to her dissertation topic she focuses on police discretion and mandatory reporting laws, childhood abuse and neglect, child trafficking, and child trafficking.
Education
Juris Doctor, University of Massachusetts School of Law, Dartmouth, MA (2020)
Master of Public Policy - Public Administration University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA (2021)
B.A. Criminal Justice, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV (2016)
Tanya Dudinskaya is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» in 2020 with her Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include public attitudes of police and police use of body-worn cameras and drone technology and the implications of these devices.
Anna Nakazawa is a first year doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department. She graduated from UNLV with her Bachelor of Art degree in Criminal Justice in 2024. Her research interests include policing and crime prevention.
Jordyn Sanders is a second-year doctorate student in the Criminal Justice Department at Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» in 2022 with her Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include policing, surveillance, environmental criminology, tribal concerns, and victimization.
Education
A.A. Criminal Justice, College of Southern Nevada (2017)
Kamali'ilani Wetherell is a third-year Doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» in 2021 with her Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include policing, unsolved crime, missing persons, and wrongful convictions.
Education
M.A. Criminal Justice, Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» (2021)
B.A. Psychology, University of California, Irvine (2019)
Tai Beckx is a first-year master's student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». He graduated from the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» in 2023 with his Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. His research interests include policing, terminal ballistics, and police use of drone technology.
Education
A.S. Administration of Justice, Irvine Valley College (2019)
B.A. Criminal Justice, Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» (2023)
Alexis Rodriguez is a first-year Master's student in the Criminal Justice Department at Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». He graduated from the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» with his Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. His research interests include the local court system, victimization, cyber crimes, and security.
Education
B.A. Criminal Justice and Psychology, Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» (2022)
I am a first year masters student. I have graduated from University of Nevada Las Vegas in Fall 2023 with my bachelors in Philosophy with a concentration in Law and Justice. My research interests include delinquency, wrongful convictions, white collar crime and corrections.
Chloe Lovato is a first-year Master's student in the Criminal Justice Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Her research methods include deterrence, delinquency, and law enforcement.
Alyssa is a first-year Masters student at UNLV. She graduated this past May at San Diego State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Criminal Justice. Her research interest are juvenile justice and corruptions.
Previous education:
B.S. in Criminal Justice at San Diego State University
Vanessa Pichon is a first-year Master's student in the Criminal Justice Department at Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». She graduated from Park University with her Bachelors of Science degree in Criminal Justice Administration. Her research interests include ethics in the court system, military commissions, and international terrorism.
Education:
B.S. Criminal Justice Administration, Park University (2005)
Cyrus Ford Zarganj is a second-year masters student in the Criminal Justice Department at Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». He graduated from Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX in 2003 with his Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science. His research interests include international justice, women and crime, and crimes against humanities.
Education
M.S. Library and Information Science, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX (2003)
B.A. Spanish Language and Literature, Azad University, Tehran, Iran (1997)
