Dr. Michael Cavanaugh – SCJC Director
Associate Professor
Email: mcavanaugh@ualr.edu
Specialization – Policy, Guns, Criminal Justice Education, Program Evaluation
Dr. Richard Lewis – Graduate Coordinator
Associate Professor
Email: rhlewis@ualr.edu
Specialization – Biosocial Criminology, Quantitative Methodology
Dr. Mary Parker
Professor
Email: mlparker@ualr.edu
Specialization – Institutional + Community Corrections, Teaching Strategies
Dr. David Montague
Professor
Email: drmontague@ualr.edu
Specialization – Policy + Administration, Prison Education, JFK Assassination
Dr. Montague is currently the Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs-Student Success in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Dr. Tusty ten Bensel
Professor
Email: ixzohra@ualr.edu
Specialization – Violence + Victimization, Crime Against Special Populations, Program Evaluation, Mixed Methodology
Dr. ten Bensel is currently an Associate Dean in the College of Business, Health, and Human Services (CBHHS)
Dr. Matthew Matusiak
Associate Professor
Email: mmatusiak@ualr.edu
Specialization –
Dr. Matusiak is currently an Associate Dean in the College of Business, Health, and Human Services (CBHHS)
Dr. Robert “Bob” Lytle
Associate Professor
Email: rdlytle@ualr.edu
Specialization – Institutional and Community Corrections, Criminal Justice Policy Process, Applied + Evaluation Research
Dr. Molly Smith
Associate Professor
Email: mesmith8@ualr.edu
Specialization – Victimization, Human Trafficking, Criminal Justice System + Mental Health
Dr. David “Dave” Tyler
Assistant Professor
Email: dtyler@ualr.edu
Specialization – Policing, Quantitative Methodology
Dr. Suzanne Coble
Assistant Professor
Email: scoble@ualr.edu
Specialization – Sexual Violence; Police, Prosecutor, + Jury Decision-Making; Social Structure, Inequality, + Disparity; Race, Gender, + Criminal Justice; Feminist + Queer Criminologies; Qualitative Methods
Dr. Arsala Khan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: aakhan1@ualr.edu
Specialization – Muslim Identities, Black Criminology, Punitiveness + Public Attitude
Instructors
Dr. Kilby Raptopoulos
Senior Instructor
Email: vkerwin@ualr.edu
Specialization – Violence + Victimization, Sex Offenders, Media Portrayal of Victims + Offenders, Empathy + Criminal Justice, Online Pedagogy
Dr. Misty Ladd
Instructor
Email: mrladd@ualr.edu
Specialization – Forensic Psychology, Shift Work + Burnout, Security Management + Investigations, Crime Prevention through Environmental Design
