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- CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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William Pridemore
Distinguished University Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Ph.D., State University of New York – Albany
[email protected], 404-413-1017
William Pridemore joins the university’s Second Century Initiative cluster on Evidence-Based Policy. He comes to the school from Indiana University, where he received the university’s Trustees Teaching Award in 2009 and the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize for his research in 2012.
Pridemore’s main research interests include the impact of social structure on homicide and suicide rates, the role of alcohol in violence and mortality, and the sociology of health and illness. He is the American Society of Criminology’s liaison to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was founding director of Indiana University’s Workshop in Methods.
His interdisciplinary research has been supported by grants of more than $2.5 million. He has published more than 80 articles in leading scholarly journals in several disciplines.
Pridemore holds a B.A. and M.A. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York-Albany.
Angela Overton
Clinical Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Old Dominion University (anticipated 2013)
[email protected], 404-413-0095
Angela Overton’s research interests include state crime and international criminal law violations, feminist issues, inequality/injustice, international institutions of social control, and the intersection of social control and social justice.
While at Old Dominion, Overton received the Shining Star Teaching Award twice, the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, the Outstanding Graduate Research Award and the University Alumni Association Outstanding Scholar Fellowship. She also won the Graduate Student Paper Competition of the American Society of Criminology’s Division of International Criminology in 2010.
Overton has co-authored several published articles. She holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Kennesaw State University and an M.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Michael B. Shapiro
Clinical Instructor of Criminal Justice
Director of Criminal Justice, Alpharetta Center
J.D., Emory University
[email protected], 404-413-1028
Michael Shapiro is on the Georgia State University/Georgia Perimeter College Lumina Grant Committee and Kennesaw State University’s Siegel Institute for Leadership, Ethics & Character along with his duties at Georgia State. He has worked as managing partner of two Atlanta-area litigation firms, as in-house counsel and V.P. of operations and as executive director of the predecessor to the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council.
Certified as a guest instructor in criminal law by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, Shapiro also serves on the McGraw-Hill Academic Advisory Board for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism. He has served on several state boards and committees, including as past president of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Shapiro holds a B.A. in Political Science from Emory University, a J.D. from the Emory University School of Law and has co-authored several publications. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia.
Ranee McEntire
Visiting Instructor
Ph.D., Florida State University
[email protected], 404-413-####
Ranee McEntire teaches in the areas of criminological theory, research methods and introductory criminal justice. Her research interests include race/ethnicity, threat, and punitive attitudes; the sociology of unemployment and crime; fear of crime; and juvenile justice education.
She has examined drug use among arrestees in Atlanta, educational practices within Florida’s juvenile justice facilities, the perceptions among Florida residents of fear of crime, threat of victimization and punitive attitudes towards criminals, and other crime-related topics.
McEntire has written a book and co-authored several articles published in scholarly journals. She holds a B.S. in Public and Social Services from Kennesaw State University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Florida State University.
- ECONOMICS
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John Gibson
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University
[email protected]; 404-413-0202
John Gibson’s primary fields of study are macroeconomics, financial economics, monetary economics and computational methods. His research focuses on understanding the effects of financial frictions on the real economy.
A referee for the Social Science Quarterly, Gibson has co-authored working papers and made conference presentations. He received the Piette Dissertation Award and the Irvin and Peggy Sobel Award for Best Graduate Student at Florida State University, where he earned a College of Social Sciences Graduate Fellowship.
Gibson holds a B.A. in Economics with Mathematics from The University of Southern Mississippi and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from Florida State University.
- PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND POLICY
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Ann-Margaret Esnard
Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
[email protected], 404-413-0123
Ann-Margaret Esnard joins the university’s Second Century Initiative cluster on the Future of Cities. She has held tenure appointments at Cornell University and Florida Atlantic University, where she won the Professor of the Year Award in 2012 and the Research Mentoring Program Award in 2010.
Her research encompasses disaster planning, disaster-induced population displacement, hazard and vulnerability assessment and GIS/spatial analysis, and includes National Science Foundation-funded projects on topics of disaster-induced population displacement and long-term recovery. She has authored several books and chapters and co-authored a number of journal articles.
Esnard has served on several state and national policy committees. She holds a B.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of the West Indies-Trinidad, an M.S. in Agronomy and Soils from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez and a Ph.D. in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
K. Jurée Capers
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Texas A&M University
[email protected], 404-413-0118
K. Jurée Capers, a scholar of public administration and public policy, often addresses questions related to policy implementation and outcomes within the governance framework. Her research examines how governance in the broad sense affects each phase of policy— from agenda setting and policy design to policy outputs and outcomes. Other topics of interest and research include higher education governance and management and managerial networking behavior.
Capers was a research associate on the Project for Equity, Representation and Governance at Texas A&M. She was named to the American Political Science Association Minority Fellows in 2009 and 2010 and received a three-year Texas A&M University Diversity Fellowship. She has authored several book chapters.
She holds a B.S. in Political Science and Psychology from Winthrop University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Texas A&M University.
ECONOMICS
John Gibson
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University
[email protected]; 404-413-0202
John Gibson’s primary fields of study are macroeconomics, financial economics, monetary economics and computational methods. His research focuses on understanding the effects of financial frictions on the real economy.
A referee for the Social Science Quarterly, Gibson has co-authored working papers and made conference presentations. He received the Piette Dissertation Award and the Irvin and Peggy Sobel Award for Best Graduate Student at Florida State University, where he earned a College of Social Sciences Graduate Fellowship.
Gibson holds a B.A. in Economics with Mathematics from The University of Southern Mississippi and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from Florida State University.
- SOCIAL WORK
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Maria Azuri
Visiting Instructor
M.S.W., Columbia University
[email protected], 404-413- 1052
Maria Azuri has worked as a social work generalist, counselor and grassroots organizer with Latino clients. An undocumented U.S. immigrant until her mid-teens, she credits her unique childhood experiences as a cultural broker living the daily complexities faced by immigrant families as her earliest teacher in the field of social work, resilience and empowerment.
Formerly the program creator and manager of the Lifting Latina Voices Initiative, Azuri focuses her work on Latinas and sexual and reproductive health programming, practice and advocacy. She specializes in gender-based power dynamics and how race, gender, language, knowledge and ethnicity all play vital roles in women’s sense of self efficacy, help-seeking, health literacy and ability to plan for the future. Other research interests include Latina empowerment, bi-cultural identity and Latina youth in the public school system.
Azuri holds a B.S.W. from Georgia State University and graduated magna cum laude with an M.S.W. from Columbia University.
Nicholas Forge
Clinical Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Fordham University
[email protected], 404-413-1061
Nicholas Forge joins Georgia State University from Mercy College. His research interests include homelessness among LGBTQ youth and young adults, HIV/AIDS, and service provision and evaluation.
Forge has provided social work services for and directed a transitional living shelter for homeless LGBTQ-identified youth and young adults, trained HIV/AIDS case managers employed by the City of New York and provided counseling services for homeless youth at a drop-in service provider.
Forge co-authored a book chapter on cultural competence and HIV/AIDS and has presented his work at national conferences. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Florida Atlantic University, an M.S.W. from Georgia State University and a Ph.D. from Fordham University, where he received the Langenfeld Award for outstanding doctoral dissertation.
Kristie Seelman
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Denver
[email protected], 404-413-1071
Kristie Seelman’s research focuses on improving settings and services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) people, addressing structural oppression, and modern forms of prejudice among social workers.
Her research has been published in the Journal of Social Work Education, the Journal of Social Service Research and The Huffington Post, and she has contributed to community-based research reports. Her professional experiences have included developing educational programs for low-income families, supporting and training young adult volunteers, conducting outreach to address childhood hunger, and offering research consultation to community organizations.
Seelman holds an M.S.W. and Ph.D. from the University of Denver and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Allegheny College. She received a 2012-13 dissertation fellowship from the American Association of University Women.