Master of Science in Criminal Justice Faculty

Listed below are the current faculty and staff for the Master of Science in Criminal Justice program at Kennesaw State University.

Name
Position

  • Sinyong Choi, assistant professor at KSU

    Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

    schoi35@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6739
    PS 232

    Areas of Interest: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Ethical hacking, Digital forensic, Illegal online gambling, Quantitative analysis, Cryptocurrency crime

  • Beverly Reece Churchwell, associate professor at KSU

    Coordinator of Criminal Justice and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

    breece11@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6739
    SO 4066

    Areas of expertise: Life-course criminology, desistance from crime, barriers to reentry, corrections, juvenile delinquency 

    Faculty web page

  • Sara Evans, associate professor at KSU

    MSCJ Program Director and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

    sevan120@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6739
    SO 4067

    Areas of expertise: Neighborhoods and crime, public space, delinquency, scholarship of teaching and learning, high-impact practices

    Faculty web page

  • Melanie Holland, associate professor at KSU

    Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

    mholla47@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6739
    SO 4064

    Areas of expertise: Sentencing policies and theories, sentencing inequality, contextualization of disparate court outcomes

    Faculty web page

  • Gang Lee, professor at KSU

    Professor of Criminal Justice

    glee18@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2437
    SO 4072

    Areas of expertise: Cybercrime, international criminology, comparative criminal justice, program evaluation

    Faculty web page

  • Tanja Link, associate professor at KSU

    Assistant Chair in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and Coordinator of Internships for Criminal Justice and Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology

    tlink1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2292
    SO 4054

    Areas of expertise: Vulnerable populations, corrections and reentry, barriers to reentry, desistance from crime, juvenile delinquency, substance use

  • Michael Logan, assistant professor at KSU

    Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

    mlogan21@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6739
    SO 4063

    Areas of expertise: Violence, Violent Extremism, Criminal Organizations, Offender Decision-Making, Malevolent Creativity

    Faculty web page

  • James McCafferty, associate professor at KSU

    Professor of Criminal Justice

    jmccaff4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7771
    SO 4074

    Areas of expertise: Risk assessment, juvenile corrections, community corrections, campus gun policies

    Faculty web page

  • Jennifer McMahon, professor at KSU

    Executive Director of Planning and Accreditation Readiness and Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology

    jmcmaho7@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2643
    KH 3453

    Areas of expertise: Victimization, violence prevention, sexual assault case processing, gun control, program evaluation 

    Faculty web page

  • Heidi Scherer, professor at KSU

    Professor of Criminal Justice

    hscherer@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2894
    SO 4062

    Areas of expertise: Criminology, victimology, campus safety, sexual violence

  • Richard Stringer, associate professor at KSU

    Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

    rstring7@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6739
    SO 4051A

    Areas of expertise: Drug and alcohol policy,policing, advanced quantitative methods 

    www.richardstringer.net

    Faculty web page

  • Lisa Thompson, assistant professor at KSU

    Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

    lthom255@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6739
    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, professor at KSU

    Professor of Criminal Justice

    ctotten@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4413
    SO 4069

    Areas of expertise: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Law and Society, International Criminal Law

  • Kenneth White, associate professor at KSU

    Associate Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice

    kwhite88@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2928
    SO 5085

    Areas of expertise: Constitutional law, political theory, criminal procedure and ethics

    Faculty web page