40 faculty and 37 courses in Criminal Justice at George Mason University.
- Charlotte Gill, Associate Professor; MS Program Director h-index 20
Community- and place-based crime prevention approaches, particularly with juveniles and youth; community policing; program evaluation; and research synthesis. Dr. Gill has two decades of experience in applied experimental and quasi-expe
Notable: “Restorative justice: the evidence” (2007) · 507 citations
- Richard M. Denholm II, Adjunct Faculty h-index 14
Notable: “Woodrow Wilson and the Study of Administration: A New Look at an Old Essay” (1973) · 59 citations
- Jason A Cantone, Adjunct Faculty h-index 6
Notable: “Sounding guilty: How accent bias affects juror judgments of culpability” (2019) · 73 citations
- Erin Eife, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Notable: “Black Bodies at the Dangerous Intersection of Gender Violence and Mass Criminalization” (2020) · 45 citations
- Chelsea Foudray, Postdoctoral Fellow h-index 4
Pretrial supervision, risk assessments, and behavioral health outcomes for justice-involved populations. Selected Publications Foudray, C. M. A. , Lowder, E. M., & Wilson, D.B. (2025). Effectiveness of drug testing
Notable: “The Compendium of U.S. jails: creating and conducting research with the first comprehensive contact database of U.S. jails” (2021) · 14 citations
- Mahmut Cengiz, Associate Professor h-index 4
Notable: “The ISIS Model and its Influence Over Global Terrorism” (2022) · 15 citations
- Parwez Besmel, Assistant Professor h-index 2
Focus on fundamental inquiries into how societies emerging from periods of conflict and repression grapple with the legacies of past atrocities. He is the recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. During the academic year 20
Notable: “Globalization and language policies of multilingual societies: some case studies of south east Asia” (2012) · 33 citations
- Daniel Brazier, Adjunct Faculty h-index 2
Notable: “Attitudes Toward the Use of Racial/Ethnic Profiling to Prevent Crime and Terrorism” (2011) · 21 citations
- Hayley Carlisle, Graduate Lecturer h-index 1
Justice and Public Policy in 2020. Prior to starting her doctoral journey at George Mason University, Hayley worked for the D.C. Department of Corrections, during which time she designed and supported programs for returning citizens and
Notable: “Pay to talk: the financial barriers, consequences, and solutions to prison and jail communication” (2024) · 2 citations
- Amie D. Bowman, Adjunct Faculty
- Beidi Dong, Associate Professor
Es on community violence, particularly gun violence and policy in the United States, and on the health consequences and disparities associated with crime, violence, and punishment. In addition, his research examines how artificial intellige
- Brielle DeMatteo, Graduate Program Coordinator
College access, first-generation students, access and persistence of foster youth, campus-support programs for foster youth, and faculty development, particularly of women in academia. As a requirement for the M.A. program, Brielle
- Catherine Gallagher, Associate Professor
- Catherine Moses Dobson, Associate Professor; Internship Director
- Christopher Edmunds, Adjunct Faculty
- Constantus Akuma-Zanu, Graduate Research Assistant
Policing, procedural justice, comparative criminal justice, and program/policy evaluation. Selected Publications Bell, C., Craig, M. O., Hughes, C., Franklin, S., & Akuma-Zanu, C. (2025). The Cost of Challenging School Sec
- Elli Ambros, Undergraduate Academic Advisor
- James Clark, Adjunct Faculty
- James L. Carr, Adjunct Faculty
Organizational Leadership, Nova Southeastern University In the Media
- Jim Burch, Adjunct Faculty
- Jonathan Casteline, Adjunct Faculty
- Kevin B Fornshill, Adjunct Faculty
- Kristen M Fite, Graduate Research Assistant
Notable: “Understanding treatment barriers for major depressive disorder in the Latino community: A qualitative study stratified by language preference” (2025)
- Lakia Faison, Graduate Research Assistant
- Lillian Brooks, Adjunct Faculty
- Matthew D'Anna, Adjunct Faculty
- Michael David Bayer, Adjunct Faculty
- Michael Dillemuth, Adjunct Faculty
- Patrick Gallop, Adjunct Faculty
- Peter Caggiano, Adjunct Faculty
- Randy I. Bellows, Adjunct Faculty
- Robert Blakley, Adjunct Faculty
- Ryan Cotter, Adjunct Faculty
- Sharon Corradino, Office Manager
- Stephen F Bamford, Adjunct Faculty
- Steven Bennett, Adjunct Faculty
- Steven L Basha, Adjunct Faculty
- Thomas E Dowling, Adjunct Faculty
- Yana Arvanitis, Fiscal Coordinator
- Zach Drake, Faculty
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.