Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of Maryland

Ph.D. Criminology & Criminal Justice (2019)

Dissertation: “Building a Baseline: Unifying Spatial and Temporal Methodologies to Understand Archaeological Looting in Egypt”

M.A. Criminology & Criminal Justice (2016)

Thesis: “Strategic vs Opportunistic Looting: Understanding the Relationship between Antiquities Looting and Armed Conflict in Egypt”

B.A. Anthropology (2012)

Thesis: “New Methods of Mapping: The Application of Social Network Analysis to the Study of the Illegal Trade in Antiquities”

experience

University of new haven

Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science (2021 - )

Desales University

Assistant Professor, Homeland Security Program, Department of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (2020 - 2021)

University of VIRGINIA

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology (2019 - 2020)

Queen Mary University London

International Graduate Research Fellow, Department of Law (2018 - 2018)

University of Maryland

Graduate Assistant, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice (2014 - 2019)

National consortium for the study of terrorism and responses to terrorism (start)

Illicit Network Fellow (2014 - 2014)

Optimal solutions group

Research Analyst (2012 - 2014)

National consortium for the study of terrorism and responses to terrorism (start)

Antiquities Trafficking Intern (2011 - 2011)

Awards & fellowships

university of maryland

• Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award (2018)

• International Graduate Research Fellowship (2017)

• Undergraduate Researcher of the Year (2011)

professional service

Co-Director of the Cultural Resilience Informatics and Analysis (CURIA) Lab.

Co-Founder and Organizer of Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium, in collaboration with Queen Mary University London, Kent University, and the Ronan Institute (2018, 2021 )

university of maryland

Graduate Student Representative, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice (2017 - 2018)

Co-Founder and Organizer of lecture series Engaging in Current Events as Criminologists, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (2017 - 2018)

Task Force member for the report #CultureUnderThreat: Recommendations for the U.S. Government (2016 - ). Available from: http://taskforce.theantiquitiescoalition.org/.

teaching

Courses Taught

• Quantitative Applications in Criminal Justice (Undergraduate Fall 2021; Graduate Spring 2022)

• The UNCommon Course (Spring 2022)

• Crime Mapping and Crime Analysis (Spring 2022)

• Criminology (Fall 2022; Accelerated Online)

  Introduction to Homeland Security (ACCESS and Day; Fall 2020)

• Special Topics in Homeland Security (Fall 2020)

• Introduction to Criminology (Summer 2017, Fall 2017)

• Generalized Linear Models (TA: Spring 2018, Spring 2019)

• Responses to Violence (TA: Fall 2015, Spring 2016)

• Introduction to Criminal Justice (TA: Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2021)

Courses Prepared to Teach

• Statistics

• Spatial Analysis/Geographical Information Systems

• Social Network Analysis

• Research Methods

• Criminological Theory

• Criminal Justice Topics (e.g., Race and Crime, Responses to Violence, Policing)

• Transnational and Organized Crime

• Art Crime

related professional skills

computer skills

• Statistical software: EViews, MPlus, R, SAS, Stata

• Satellite Remote Sensing tools: ArcGIS Pro, Google Earth Pro

• Social Network Analysis software: NetDraw, NodeXL, Pajek, Ucinet

languages

• French (fluent)

• Italian (conversational)

• Spanish (rudimentary)