Faculty & Staff

Listed below are the current faculty and staff for the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University.

Administration

Name

Position

Barbara Combs
Barbara Combs Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and Professor of Sociology

Position:
Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-4384
Email: bcombs2@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4058
Tanja Link
Tanja Link Assistant Chair, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Internship Coordinator

Position:
Assistant Chair, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Internship Coordinator

Phone: (470) 578-2292
Email: tlink1@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4054

Areas of expertise: Vulnerable populations, corrections and reentry, barriers to reentry, desistance from crime, juvenile delinquency, substance use
Sara Evans
Sara Evans Director, Masters in Criminal Justice (MSCJ), Associate Professor in Criminal Justice (Law)

Position:
Director, Masters in Criminal Justice (MSCJ), Associate Professor in Criminal Justice (Law)

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: sevan120@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4067

Areas of expertise: Neighborhoods and crime, public space, delinquency, scholarship of teaching and learning, high-impact practices
Darina Lepadatu
Darina Lepadatu Sociology Program Coordinator, Professor of Sociology

Position:
Sociology Program Coordinator, Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6953
Email: dlepadat@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4064

Areas of expertise: organizations, occupations, and work, international conflict management, transnational migration, qualitative methods
Beverly Reece Churchwell
Beverly Reece Churchwell Criminal Justice Program Coordinator, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Criminal Justice Program Coordinator, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: breece11@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4066

Areas of expertise: Life-course criminology, desistance from crime, barriers to reentry, corrections, juvenile delinquency Faculty web page
Shari Sheridan
Shari Sheridan Program Coordinator

Position:
Program Coordinator

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: ssherid2@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4056
Janet Brock
Janet Brock Administrative Assistant

Position:
Administrative Assistant

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: jbrock64@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Full-time Faculty

Name

Position

Samuel Abaidoo
Samuel Abaidoo Professor of Sociology

Position:
Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-4473
Email: sabaidoo@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 5058

Areas of expertise: Technology and society, dark heritage studies, sociology of biotechnology
Judy Allen
Judy Allen Senior Lecturer of Sociology

Position:
Senior Lecturer of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-2070
Email: jallen12@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4068

Areas of expertise: Minority student retention, Social inequality, Social Isolation of Minorities in Upscale Communities, Relationship Profiles, Adopt a Senior Bridge Building
Jesse Benjamin
Jesse Benjamin Professor of International Conflict Management and Sociology

Position:
Professor of International Conflict Management and Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-2067
Email: jbenjam2@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 3003B

Areas of expertise:
Pan-Africanism, decolonial theory, history of race, whiteness studies, epistemology, development
Faculty web page
Sinyong Choi
Sinyong Choi Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: schoi35@kennesaw.edu
Location: PS 232

Areas of Interest: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Ethical hacking, Digital forensic, Illegal online gambling, Quantitative analysis, Cryptocurrency crime
Joel Crombez
Joel Crombez Assistant Professor of Sociology

Position:
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: jcrombez@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4076

Areas of expertise: critical, social, and sociological theory, political economy, mental health, technology
Faculty web page
Stan Crowder
Stan Crowder Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: scrowder@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4063

Areas of expertise:
Criminal investigations, serial offenders, victimology, criminal profiling, criminal justice ethics
Daniel Farr
Daniel Farr Senior Lecturer of Sociology, Internship Coordinator, Sociology

Position:
Senior Lecturer of Sociology, Internship Coordinator, Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-7970
Email: dfarr4@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 5006

Areas of expertise:
Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQ Studies, Queer Health, Media, Body Studies
Chris Hess
Chris Hess Assistant Professor of Sociology

Position:
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: chess11@kennesaw.edu
Location: PS 252

Areas of Interest: Urban Sociology, Computational Social Science, Housing and Neighborhoods, Quantitative Methods, Social Demography, Data Visualization
Melanie Holland
Melanie Holland Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: mholla47@kennesaw.edu
Location: PS 144

Areas of expertise: Sentencing policies and theories, sentencing inequality, contextualization of disparate court outcomes
Faculty web page
Richard Hutchinson
Richard Hutchinson Senior Lecturer of Sociology

Position:
Senior Lecturer of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: rhutch13@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 5122

Areas of expertise: Social movements, social theory, environmental sociology, social stratification
Wendell Johnson
Wendell Johnson Senior Lecturer of Sociology

Position:
Senior Lecturer of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: wjohn129@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Ethnography, community-based health interventions, health disparities
Carolee Larsen
Carolee Larsen Lecturer of Sociology

Position:
Lecturer of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-2365
Email: clarsen1@kennesaw.edu
Location: UC 120

Areas of expertise: Race/class/gender, classical and modern theory, qualitative methods, sociology of education
Gang Lee
Gang Lee Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-2437
Email: glee18@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4072

Areas of expertise: Cybercrime, international criminology, comparative criminal justice, program evaluation
Faculty web page
Michael Logan
Michael Logan Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: mlogan21@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Violence, Violent Extremism, Criminal Organizations, Offender Decision-Making, Malevolent Creativity
Faculty web page
Gail Markle
Gail Markle Professor of Sociology

Position:
Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-2477
Email: gmarkle@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4071

Areas of expertise: Environmental sociology, Social inequality, Intersections of race, class, and gender
Faculty web page
James McCafferty
James McCafferty Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-7771
Email: jmccaff4@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4074

Areas of expertise: Risk assessment, juvenile corrections, community corrections, campus gun policies
Faculty web page
Jason Mueller
Jason Mueller Assistant Professor of Sociology

Position:
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: jmuell18@kennesaw.edu
Location: PS 142

Areas of Interest: Global Social Change; Political-Economy of Development; Social Theory; Protests, Uprisings, & Insurgencies; Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity; Culture & Ideology; Psychoanalysis; Africana Studies; Comparative & Historical Methods

Faculty Web Page
Rebecca Petersen
Rebecca Petersen Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-4732
Email: rpeterse@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4062

Areas of expertise: Juvenile justice, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, research methods
Heidi Scherer
Heidi Scherer Professor of Criminal Justice.

Position:
Professor of Criminal Justice.

Phone: (470) 578-2894
Email: hscherer@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4065
Brian Starks
Brian Starks Associate Professor of Sociology

Position:
Associate Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6710
Email: bstarks3@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 3002A

Areas of expertise: Religion and Politics, Catholic Identity, Campus Ministry and Young Adults
Faculty web page
Cristina Stephens
Cristina Stephens Associate Professor of Sociology

Position:
Associate Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: cstep123@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 5093

Areas of expertise: Immigration, acculturation, impact on health, family and quality of life
Faculty web page
Evelina Sterling
Evelina Sterling Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Research Development and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Research

Position:
Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Research Development and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Research

Phone: (470) 578-2268
Email: esterlin@kennesaw.edu
Location: CC 3014

Areas of expertise: Health disparities, sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, mental health, chronic conditions
Richard Stringer
Richard Stringer Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: rstring7@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4051A

Areas of expertise: Drug and alcohol policy,policing, advanced quantitative methods
www.richardstringer.net

Faculty web page
Lisa Thompson
Lisa Thompson Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: lthom255@kennesaw.edu
Location: PS 141

Areas of Interest: Offending and Decision-Making; Military and Police Decision-Making; Violence Against Women, Quantitative Methods, Violent Extremism, Sex Offenses, Sexually Deviant Behavior, Forensic Psychology
Christopher Totten
Christopher Totten Professor in Criminal Justice (Law)

Position:
Professor in Criminal Justice (Law)

Phone: (470) 578-4413
Email: ctotten@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4069

Areas of expertise: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Law and Society, International Criminal Law
Linda Treiber
Linda Treiber Professor of Sociology

Position:
Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-2279
Email: ltreiber@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4070

Areas of expertise: Medical Sociology, Nursing, Social Determinants of Health, Work/Organizations Gender
Linda Treiber Selected Works
Kenneth White
Kenneth White Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Political Science

Position:
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Political Science

Phone: (470) 578-2928
Email: kwhite88@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 5085

Areas of expertise: Constitutional law, political theory, criminal procedure and ethics
Faculty web page
William White
William White Senior Lecturer of Sociology

Position:
Senior Lecturer of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: wwhite61@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 5122

Areas of expertise: Racial Identity, Housing Discrimination, Neighborhood Redevelopment, Education (Sociology of Knowledge), and Motorcycle Clubs

Part-time and Limited Term Faculty

Name

Position

Tony Bailey
Tony Bailey Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: tbaile20@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Police Administration, Police in America
Dennis Brown
Dennis Brown Part-time Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: dbrown3@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Ideological/Group Violence and Law Enforcement, Information and Cyber Security
James Bullock
James Bullock Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: jbulloc9@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Foundations of Criminal Justice, Police Administration, Corrections
Jennifer Combs
Jennifer Combs Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: jcombs10@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Corrections, Criminal Investigation, Ethics in Criminal Justice, Police in America
Lynnette Coto
Lynnette Coto Limited Assistant Professor of Sociology

Position:
Limited Assistant Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: lcoto@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055
David DiBari
David DiBari Limited Term Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Limited Term Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: ddibari@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Profile of the Serial Offender
Peter Fenton
Peter Fenton Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice - Retired, teaching Part-time

Position:
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice - Retired, teaching Part-time

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: pfenton@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Policing, Organized Crime, Ethics in CJ, Criminal Procedure, Intro to CJ
DeAndre Fields
DeAndre Fields Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: dfield34@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Corrections, Criminology, Juvenile Justice, Victimology and Profile of the Serial Offender
Sean Flowers
Sean Flowers Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: sflowe24@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Cyber-crime
Katie Founds
Katie Founds Limited Term Assistant Professor of Sociology

Position:
Limited Term Assistant Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: kfounds@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Medical Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Introduction to Sociology
Rodney Hendrix
Rodney Hendrix Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: rhendr21@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Crimes and Defenses, Criminal Investigation
Laquanda Jackson
Laquanda Jackson Part-time Instructor of Sociology

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: ljack170@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Intro to Sociology, Social Problems, Social Organization
Laura Johnson
Laura Johnson Part-time Instructor of Sociology

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: ljohn405@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Medical Sociology
Leigh Keever
Leigh Keever Part-time Instructor of Sociology

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: lkeever@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Violence
Gary Killam
Gary Killam Part-time Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: gkillam@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of Expertise: Profile of the Serial Offender, Criminal Investigation, Police, Police Administration, gangs
Steve Kish
Steve Kish Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: smk8041@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Foundations of Criminal Justice, Police
Lauren Lunk
Lauren Lunk Part-time Instructor of Sociology

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: clunk@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Sociology of Gender, Sociology of the Family, Social Problems, Professional Development for Sociology Students
Cathia Moon
Cathia Moon Graduate Teaching Assistant

Position:
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Phone: (470) 578-6127
Email: cmoon21@kennesaw.edu
Location: HSE 59 (3201) 113

Areas of expertise: Foundations of Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice
Calvin Moss
Calvin Moss Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: cmoss38@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Police in America, Police Administration
Shanika Perry
Shanika Perry Part time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: sperry59@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Area of expertise: Juvenile Justice, Profiling of the Serial Offenders, Criminal Courts
Kirstin Ralston-Coley
Kirstin Ralston-Coley Limited Term Instructor of Sociology

Position:
Limited Term Instructor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: kralsto4@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Alcohol, Drugs, and Society, Criminology, Sociology of Violence, Introduction to Sociology
Michael Ricks
Michael Ricks Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: mricks9@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Introduction to Criminal Justice, gangs, drugs
Malachi-Chaim Robinson
Malachi-Chaim Robinson Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: mrobin86@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Tech and Cyber-crime
Elena Rumiano
Elena Rumiano Limited Term Assistant Professor of Sociology

Position:
Limited Term Assistant Professor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: erumiano@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Social Organization, Social Theory, Research Methods
Joseph Rush
Joseph Rush Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: jrush20@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Criminology, Intro to Sociology, Medical Sociology
Phyllis Russell
Phyllis Russell Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: prussel6@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Criminal Courts, Criminal Procedures, Crimes and Defenses, Foundation of Criminal Justice
Gary Shoats
Gary Shoats Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: gshoats@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Foundation of Criminal Justice, Police in America
Wesley Smith
Wesley Smith Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: wrs2275@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Introduction to Criminal Justice
Angie Smith
Angie Smith Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: astephe8@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Cyber-crime
Frank Starosto
Frank Starosto Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: fstarost@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Criminal Courts, Criminal Procedures, Crimes and Defenses, Foundations of Criminal Justice
Mona Swallow
Mona Swallow Part-time Instructor of Sociology

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Sociology

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: mswallow@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Introduction to Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Todd Vande Zande
Todd Vande Zande Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Position:
Part-time Instructor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (470) 578-6739
Email: tav6723@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4055

Areas of expertise: Technology & Cyber Crime, Police in America, Police Administration, Juvenile Justice