Shaun L. Gabbidon
Shaun Gabbidon is a professor of criminal justice at Penn State Harrisburg. Prior to this appointment, he served as an adjunct assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Baltimore and assistant professor of criminal justice at Coppin State College.
Dr. Gabbidon attained a doctorate in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in criminal justice from the University of Baltimore. He has served as a fellow at Harvard University's W. E. B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research.
In 2005, the American Society of Criminology's division on People of Color and Crime presented Dr. Gabbidon with their highest award, the Coramae R. Mann Award, for contributions to the study of race, crime, and justice.
James M. Ruiz
James M. Ruiz received a doctorate in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University and a master's degree in criminal justice from Northeast Louisiana University.
He currently serves as an associate professor of criminal justice at Penn State Harrisburg. Prior to this appointment, he served as an assistant professor of criminal justice at Westfield State College, a teaching fellow at Sam Houston State University, and an assistant professor of criminal justice at The University of Southwestern Louisiana.
From 1968 to 1985 Dr. Ruiz served as a police officer with the New Orleans Police Department, rising to the rank of platoon commander in New Orleans' Second District. He was also a platoon commander in the emergency medical services division from which he retired.
Dr. Ruiz won the James A. Jordan Jr. award for teaching excellence from Penn State Harrisburg in 2004. He currently serves as a research and data analysis consultant to the Mifflin County Police/Partnership Program.
He is the author of The Black Hood of the Ku Klux Klan and a co-editor of The Handbook of Police Administration. Dr. Ruiz is also on the editorial board of Criminal Justice and Law Review.
Don Hummer
Don Hummer is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Penn State Harrisburg. He received a doctorate in social science-criminal justice from Michigan State University and a master's degree in administration of justice from Shippensburg University.
Dr. Hummer served as a co-consultant for a project to assess the current needs and technology uses for the Lawrence Police Department in Massachusetts. In 2001, Dr. Hummer also advised the Lowell Police Department's juvenile crime analysis unit (Massachusetts) in creating a database of criminal offenders and in interpreting the results using computer-based analysis software.
Dr. Hummer is a co-editor of The Handbook of Police Administration.
Barbara A. Sims
Barbara Sims earned a doctorate in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University and a master's degree in criminal justice from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is a professor of criminal justice at Penn State Harrisburg where she serves as program coordinator of both the criminal justice undergraduate and graduate programs.
Dr. Sims earned the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology in 2004; she also won the James A. Jordan Jr. Teaching Award from Penn State Harrisburg in 2002. She was nominated for the 2005-06 Penn State's teaching fellow award; Penn State Harrisburg's 2005-06 diversity award; and faculty service award.
She currently serves as a consultant to the Mifflin County Police/Probation Partnership Program, the Pennsylvania Sex Offenders Management Team, and the Center of Schools and Communities.
Dr. Sims is editor of Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients: Practical Implications for Institutional and Community Settings, and co-editor of Handbook of Juvenile Justice: Theory and Practice.
