Eileen M. Ahlin
Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park
M.A., Sociology (focus in Crime, Delinquency, and Corrections), George Mason University
B.A., Administration of Justice and Sociology (multiple major), Penn State
Dr. Eileen M. Ahlin is an assistant professor of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. She joined the faculty in 2013 after 15 years with a private corporation where she conducted criminal justice research at the federal, state, and local levels. Her teaching and research interests include violence, neighborhood effects, corrections, research methods, and criminological theory.
Jennifer Gibbs
Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park
Certificate, University Teaching and Learning, University of Maryland, College Park
M.S., Criminal Justice Administration, Niagara University
B.A., Psychology, Keuka College
Dr. Jennifer Gibbs' research interests focus on policing topics, including violence against police, public attitudes toward police, diversity in recruitment and retention, and terrorism. Her work on social distance and attitudes toward police, co-authored with Dr. Jonathan Lee, received recognition in the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. At Penn State World Campus, Dr. Gibbs typically teaches courses on policing (CRIMJ 210: Policing in America; CRIMJ 408: Police Administration) and ethics (CRIMJ 465: Ethics in Criminal Justice).
Ahmet Guler
Ph.D., Public Administration and Policy, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany
Dr. Ahmet Guler, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Penn State, is director of graduate studies in criminal justice and policy administration. His research focuses on criminal justice policy, policing, terrorism, criminal justice reform, information technology in criminal justice, and transnational crime.
Don Hummer
Ph.D., Social Science-Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
M.S., Criminal Justice, Shippensburg University
B.S., Sociology/Anthropology, Elizabethtown College
Dr. Don Hummer is co-author/editor of The Culture of Prison Violence (2008, Pearson), Handbook of Police Administration (2008, Taylor & Francis: CRC Press), and the forthcoming The Technology Revolution in Criminal Justice (Palgrave-MacMillan). His work, focused primarily on offender treatment and control, has appeared in peer-reviewed outlets such as Aggression and Violent Behavior, Probation Journal, Law & Policy, and The Prison Journal.
Jonathan Lee
Ph.D., Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University
M.A., Criminal Justice, Penn State
B.A., Economics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Dr. Jonathan Lee specializes in quantitative research on crime, police behavior, and sociology and psychology of crime. He is associate editor of the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. He serves as a consultant to the Dauphin County DA's Office in Pennsylvania, and he is the Principal Investigator of violence reduction projects funded by U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to entering academe, he retired from the Army (1st Ltn.), and worked as a business negotiator.
Jennifer Schally
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Tennessee
M.A., Community Psychology and Social Change, Penn State
B.S., Sociology, Penn State
Dr. Jennifer L. Schally joined the faculty at Penn State Harrisburg in 2014. Her research interests are in green criminology, and crimes by the powerful. She teaches courses in criminology, white-collar crime, and race and crime. Dr. Schally's work has appeared in the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, the American Journal of Community Psychology, and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Her book, Legitimizing Corporate Harm: The Discourse of Agribusiness, was published by Palgrave in 2018.
Jeffrey T. Ulmer
Ph.D., Sociology, Penn State
Dr. Jeffery T. Ulmer is a professor of sociology and criminology at Penn State, and serves as associate department head. His work spans such topics as courts, criminal case processing, sentencing, and corrections, as well as criminological theory, religion and crime, and violent crime.