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Doctoral students graduating 2025

Baylee Allen
Baylee Allen

Assistant Professor of Criminology (DePaul University)

bayleeallen@unomaha.edu
  • Interests: corrections, risk assessment, and gender-informed approaches to corrections
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Brian Gildea
Brian Gildea

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice (Colorado Mesa University)

briangildea@unomaha.edu
  • Interests: domestic violence, violence against women, victimology, policy and policing
Addison Kobie
Addison Kobie
akobie@unomaha.edu
  • Interests: juvenile delinquency, corrections, and criminology
Nicholas Vietto
Nicholas Vietto
nvietto@unomaha.edu
  • Interests: biopsychosocial criminology, quantitative methodology, antisocial behavior, behavior genetics, experimental criminology

Doctoral Students

Alvi Ali
Alvi Ali
alviali@unomaha.edu
  • Interests: victimology, violence against women, sexual offending and victimization in K-12 programs, gender and punishment, and sex work
Sarah Al Falatah
Sarah Al Falatah
salfalatah@unomaha.edu
  • Research interests: health criminology, specifically physical and mental health
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Sadie Brewer
Sadie Brewer
sadiebrewer@unomaha.edu
  • Research interests: juvenile corrections, rehabilitation and recidivism, public policy, motivation and behavior
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Taylor Gonzales
Taylor Gonzales

Graduate Research Assistant

tgonzales@unomaha.edu
  • Research interests: recidivism of justice-involved populations, corrections, and program evaluations
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Lexi Goodijohn
Lexi Goodijohn
lgoodijohn@unomaha.edu
  • Research interests: policing, officer mental health and wellness, program evaluation
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Abby Hayes
Abby Hayes
ahayes26@unomaha.edu
  • Research interests: incarceration and reentry, criminological theory, gangs, and solitary confinement
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Emily Meinert
Emily Meinert
emeinert@unomaha.edu
  • Interests: sexual violence, crimes against women, gender and crime, re-victimization, IPV
Isaac Moelter
Isaac Moelter
imoelter@unomaha.edu
  • Interests: domestic extremism, radicalization, violence, corrections
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Naya Russell-Coprich
Naya Russell-Coprich
nrussell-coprich@unomaha.edu
  • Research interests: evaluation, theory development, police-community relations, juvenile delinquency
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Dakota Schroll
Dakota Schroll

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice (Wayne State College)

dschroll@unomaha.edu
  • Interests: biosocial and biopsychosocial criminology, individual differences in crime and victimization, risk and needs assessment
  • Interests (continued): , traits and criminality, traits and victimization, criminological theory and philosophy, psychology and crime
  • Interests (continued): criminal and victim decision-making, social construction of deviance and criminality, emotions and criminality
Kaitlyn Swanberg
Kaitlyn Swanberg
kswanberg@unomaha.edu
  • Research interests: sexual violence of women and children, online child sexual exploitation, human trafficking, involuntary celibates (incels)
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Valeria Torres-Rivera
Valeria Torres-Rivera
vtorres-rivera@unomaha.edu
  • Research interests: interpersonal violence, intimate partner violence, human trafficking, corrections and the collateral consequences of incarceration
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John Ursino
John Ursino
jursino@unomaha.edu
  • Interests: risk-need assessments, correctional programming, and decarceration strategies
Callie Vitro
Callie Vitro
cvitro@unomaha.edu
  • Research interests: event security, threat assessment and reporting, policing, and terrorism
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Emilie Whitehouse
Emilie Whitehouse
ewhitehouse@unomaha.edu
  • Research interests: intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and victim services for survivors of sexual violence
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Masters Students (funded on graduate assistantships)

Ines Absisan
Ines Absisan
iabsisan@unomaha.edu
Oluwadamilola Bello Adepoju
Oluwadamilola Bello Adepoju
obelloadepoju@unomaha.edu
Champ Champenstein
Champ Champenstein
nchamp3@unomaha.edu
Jordan Cline
Jordan Cline
jordancline@unomaha.edu
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Alexia Di Giulio
adigiulio@unomaha.edu
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Loganne Ditter
lditter@unomaha.edu
Farhan Hoque
Farhan Tambirul Hoque
fhoque@unomaha.edu
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Carisma Jano
cjano@unomaha.edu
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Alice Jurkiewicz
Alice Jurkiewicz
ajurkiewicz@unomaha.edu
Kyle Lemcke
Kyle Lemcke
klemcke@unomaha.edu
Macy Person
Macy Person
macyperson@unomaha.edu
Sarah Schappert
Sarah Schappert
sschappert@unomaha.edu
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Colton Tinsley
ctinsley@unomaha.edu
Meena Wilwerding
Meena Wilwerding
mcwilwerding@unomaha.edu

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