Doctoral students graduating 2025

Baylee Allen
Assistant Professor of Criminology (DePaul University)
bayleeallen@unomaha.edu- Interests: corrections, risk assessment, and gender-informed approaches to corrections

Michaela Benson-Goldsmith
Grants Program Manager for the Victimology and Victim Studies Research Lab
michaelagoldsmith@unomaha.edu- Interests: victimology, victim services, child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, sexual violence, and policing

Brian Gildea
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice (Colorado Mesa University)
briangildea@unomaha.edu- Interests: domestic violence, violence against women, victimology, policy and policing

Addison Kobie
akobie@unomaha.edu
- Interests: juvenile delinquency, corrections, and criminology

Nicholas Vietto
nvietto@unomaha.edu
- Interests: biopsychosocial criminology, quantitative methodology, antisocial behavior, behavior genetics, experimental criminology
Doctoral Students

Alvi Ali
alviali@unomaha.edu
- Interests: victimology, violence against women, sexual offending and victimization in K-12 programs, gender and punishment, and sex work

Sarah Al Falatah
salfalatah@unomaha.edu
- Research interests: health criminology, specifically physical and mental health

Sadie Brewer
sadiebrewer@unomaha.edu
- Research interests: juvenile corrections, rehabilitation and recidivism, public policy, motivation and behavior

Taylor Gonzales
Graduate Research Assistant
tgonzales@unomaha.edu- Research interests: recidivism of justice-involved populations, corrections, and program evaluations

Lexi Goodijohn
lgoodijohn@unomaha.edu
- Research interests: women in policing, officer mental health and wellness, sexual offending

Abby Hayes
ahayes26@unomaha.edu
- Research interests: incarceration and reentry, criminological theory, gangs, and solitary confinement

Emily Meinert
emeinert@unomaha.edu
- Interests: sexual violence, crimes against women, gender and crime, re-victimization, IPV

Isaac Moelter
imoelter@unomaha.edu
- Interests: domestic extremism, radicalization, violence, corrections

Naya Russell-Coprich
nrussell-coprich@unomaha.edu
- Research interests: evaluation, theory development, police-community relations, juvenile delinquency

Dakota Schroll
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice (Wayne State College)
dschroll@unomaha.edu- Interests: biosocial and biopsychosocial criminology, individual differences in crime and victimization, risk and needs assessment
- Interests (continued): , traits and criminality, traits and victimization, criminological theory and philosophy, psychology and crime
- Interests (continued): criminal and victim decision-making, social construction of deviance and criminality, emotions and criminality

Kaitlyn Swanberg
kswanberg@unomaha.edu
- Research interests: sexual violence of women and children, online child sexual exploitation, human trafficking, involuntary celibates (incels)

Valeria Torres-Rivera
vtorres-rivera@unomaha.edu
- Research interests: interpersonal violence, intimate partner violence, human trafficking, corrections and the collateral consequences of incarceration

John Ursino
jursino@unomaha.edu
- Interests: risk-need assessments, correctional programming, and decarceration strategies

Callie Vitro
cvitro@unomaha.edu
- Research interests: event security, threat assessment and reporting, policing, and terrorism

Emilie Whitehouse
ewhitehouse@unomaha.edu
- Research interests: intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and victim services for survivors of sexual violence
Masters Students (funded on graduate assistantships)

Ines Absisan

Oluwadamilola Bello Adepoju

Champ Champenstein

Jordan Cline

Alexia Di Giulio

Loganne Ditter

Farhan Tambirul Hoque

Carisma Jano

Alice Jurkiewicz

Kyle Lemcke

Macy Person

Sarah Schappert

Colton Tinsley
