Doctoral students graduating 2023

Amber Krushas
akrushas@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Corrections, Juvenile Justice, Victimology, Policy and Program Evaluations

Rachael Rief
rrief@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Women in Policing, Police Culture, and Officer Wellness

Sarah Steele
Doctoral Students

Sarah Al Falatah
salfalatah@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Mental Health and Crime, Solitary Confinement, Biosocial Criminology, and Offender Decision-Making

Alvi Ali
alviali@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Victimology, violence against women, sexual offending and victimization in K-12 programs, gender and punishment, sex work, intimate partner

Baylee Allen
bayleeallen@unomaha.edu
- Corrections, Risk Assessment, and Gender Informed Approaches to Corrections

Caralin Branscum
cbranscum@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Victimology, Violence Against Women, Sexual Assault Case Processing, Policing, and Decision-making

Clara Braun
cbraun@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Criminological rationalizations for terrorism, homegrown violent extremism, Salafi-jihadist ideology,
- leadership development within violent ideological groups, and radicalization and mobilization pathways

(Preston) Trey Bussey
pbussey@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Police use of force, evidence-based policing, and crime science

Brenna Dunlap
bdunlap@unomaha.edu
- Policing, use of force, evidence-based policing

Sheena Gilbert
sheenagilbert@unomaha.edu
- Victimization, Indigenous crime & victimization, Gender-based violence, College campus/University sexual victimization,
- Policy reform and Indigenous People, Victimization of underserved populations, Intersection of policing and Indigenous crime/victimization

Brian Gildea
briangildea@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Domestic Violence, Violence Against Women, Victimology, Policy and Policing

Michaela E. Goldsmith
michaelagoldsmith@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Victimology, Victim Services, Child Abuse and Neglect, Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, and Policing

Taylor Gonzales
- Graduate Research Assistant in Nebraska Collaborative for Violence Intervention and Prevention

Lexi Goodijohn
Interests: Cybercrime and Trafficking, Sociology, Race and Crime, Women in Policing, Police Officer Wellness, Policy and Program Evaluation
lgoodijohn@unomaha.edu
Addison Kobie
akobie@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Juvenile Delinquency, Corrections, and Criminology

Emily Meinert
emeinert@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Sexual Violence, Crimes against Women, Gender and Crime, Re-Victimization, IPV

Isaac Moelter
imoelter@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Domestic Extremism, Radicalization, Violence, Corrections

Alyssa Nystrom
anystrom@unomaha.edu
- Victimology, Victim-centered Policy Making, Victim Rights, Campus Sexual Harassment/Assault, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons, Domes
- Domestic Violence, Women in Criminal Justice

Dakota Schroll
Interests: Biosocial and Biopsychosocial Criminology, Individual Differences in Crime and Victimization, Risk and Needs Assessment, Traits and Criminality, Traits and Victimization, Criminological Theory and Philosophy, Psychology and Crime, Criminal and Victim Decision-Making, Social Construction of Deviance and Criminality, Emotions and Criminality
dschroll@unomaha.edu
John Ursino

Nicholas Vietto
nvietto@unomaha.edu
- Biopsychosocial Criminology, Quantitative Methodology, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Genetics, Experimental Criminology
Masters Students (funded on graduate assistantships)

Christopher F. Connelly
christopherconnell@unomaha.edu
- Interests: Corrections, Security Threat Groups and Management, Extremist Organizations, Restrictive Housing in Corrections, Gangs

Natalie Cotton

Morgan Goslar

Diego Marquez-Munoz

Thomas Morris

Abigail Osterhaus

Jo Schooley
