Meet Our Team
The Journal of Mass Violence Research (JMVR) relies on its editors and editorial board to ensure the overall quality of the journal and its published works. This includes ensuring all accepted submissions comply with JMVR’s guiding principles. Members of our editorial board bring years of experience in a wide array of topics related to the broader issue of mass violence as well as expertise in different research methodologies. Interested in joining our editorial board? Please contact us for more information!
Jaclyn Schildkraut, PhD
CO-EDITOR
Department of Criminal Justice
SUNY Oswego
Jaclyn Schildkraut is the Executive Director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government. Her research interests include mass/school shootings, school safety, violence prevention, and media effects. Since 2018, Dr. Schildkraut has led the largest research study, to date, on the impact of lockdown drills, working with more than 20,000 students and 4,300 educators and community partners in New York’s fifth largest school district. She is the co-author/editor of six books, including Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, and Realities (Praeger, 2016), Columbine, 20 Years Later and Beyond: Lessons from Tragedy (Praeger, 2019), and Lockdown Drills: Connecting Research and Best Practices for School Administrators, Teachers, and Parents (MIT Press, 2022). Dr. Schildkraut has published more than 50 research articles, book chapters, and policy briefs assessing different facets of school and mass shootings. A nationally recognized expert on mass shootings and school safety, her research is regularly cited by the local, national, and international media.
Sarah Daly, PhD
Co-Editor
Department of Criminal Justice (Visiting)
SUNY Oswego
Sarah Daly is an Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Her primary areas of research are active and mass shootings and gendered issues, including inceldom. She has authored and edited books including Everyday School Violence and Theories of Crime through Popular Culture. Dr. Daly has partnered with local, state, and federal agencies and organizations to address issues of school violence and crime, and she was recently awarded the first research grant to study the effectiveness of the It's On Us grant program at Pennsylvania colleges and universities. She is also the host of the forthcoming Crime and Culture Talks on YouTube. She lives in Pittsburgh with her smush-face dogs, Piggy and PorkChop and indulges in bad television to escape the annoyances of academia.
Editorial Board Members
Joan Lobo Antunues, PhD
Department of Sociology,
Anthropology, and Criminal Justice
Towson University
Areas of Expertise: Youth Violence; Neighborhoods; Victimization; Immigration; Criminological Theory; Gender; Juvenile Delinquency; Antisocial Behavior
Hollie Nyseth Brehm, PhD
Department of Sociology
The Ohio State University
Areas of Expertise: Genocide; Atrocity Crimes; Perpetration; Reentry and Reintegration; Transitional Justice; International Criminal Justice
Nadine Connell, PhD
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Griffith University
Areas of Expertise: School Shootings; Open Source Data Collection Protocols; Comparative Criminology; Youth Violence; International Violence; Case Study; Quantitative Methods
Andrew P. Davis, PhD
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
North Carolina State University
Areas of Expertise: Human Rights, Political Sociology, Global Sociology, Organized Violence, Guns and Society
Jared R. Dmello, PhD
School of Social Sciences
University of Adelaide
Areas of Expertise: Terrorism; Political Violence; Social Network Analysis; Extremism; Race and Ethnicity; Program Evaluation; Security; International; Quantitative Methods; Mixed Methods
Emma E. Fridel, PhD
College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Florida State University
Areas of Expertise: Mass Murder and Mass Shootings; School Shootings; Gun Ownership and Legislation; Community Context; Quantitative Methods
Emily Greene-Colozzi, PhD
School of Criminology and Justice Studies
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Areas of Expertise: Public Mass Shootings, Situational Crime Prevention, Rational Choice and Behavioral Perspectives, School Shootings, Environmental Criminology, Open-Source Methodology, Terrorism
Jeff Gruenewald, PhD
Department of Sociology and Criminology
University of Arkansas
Areas of Expertise: Murder; Terrorism; Violent Extremism; Hate Crime; Media; Homeland Security
Murat Haner, PhD
School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Arizona State University
Areas of Expertise: Radicalization; Fear of Terrorism; Religious Extremism; ISIS; Al-Qaeda; Women and Terrorism; Public Opinion on Terrorism
Cheryl Lero Jonson, PhD
Department of Criminal Justice
Xavier University
Areas of Expertise: School Shootings; Civilian Responses to Active Shooting Incidents; Psychological Impacts of Active Shooter Training; Public Opinion; Correctional Rehabilitation; Quantitative Methods
Rachel Kalish, PhD
Department of Sociology and Criminology
SUNY College at Old Westbury
Areas of Expertise: Gender-based Violence;
Aggrieved Entitlement; Sexuality; Sexting
Mia Kelly, PhD
Criminal Justice Program
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Areas of Expertise: Gender-Based Violence; Intimate Partner Violence; Media; Intersectionality; Qualitative Content Analysis; Mixed Methods
Brent Klein, PhD
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of South Carolina
Areas of Expertise: School Shootings; Terrorism; Mass Violence; Quantitative Design; Open-Source; Theory; Firearms
Eric Madfis, PhD
School of Social Work and Criminal Justice
University of Washington Tacoma
Areas of Expertise: School Violence; Mass and School Shootings; Multiple Homicide; School Discipline and the School-to-Prison Pipeline; Critical Criminology; Gender and Violence; Hate Crime and Supremacist Groups; Qualitative and Mixed Methods
Hunter Martaindale, PhD
Advanced Law Enforcement
Rapid Response Training (ALERRT)
Texas State University
Areas of Expertise: Active Shooter; Law Enforcement Decision Making; Use of Force; Law Enforcement Training; Quantitative Methods
A. Dirk Moses, PhD
Department of Political Science
The City College of New York CUNY
Areas of Expertise: Genocide; Mass Violence, International Law; History; Crimes Against Humanity; War Crimes
Christine Sarteschi, PhD, LCSW
Department of Social Work & Criminology Chatham University
Areas of Expertise: Mass Violence; Serial Homicide; Extremism; Serious Mental Illness; Mentally Ill Offenders; Mass Violence Prevention; Sovereign Citizens
Jason R. Silva, PhD
Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice
William Paterson University
Areas of Expertise: Mass Shootings; Terrorism & Extremist Violence; School Violence; Gun Violence Prevention; Media & Crime
Melissa Sloan, PhD
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
Areas of Expertise: Victimization; Violence; Criminological Theory; Inequality; Health; Development; Punishment; Race; Quantitative Methods; Qualitative Methods
Jillian Turanovic, PhD
Department of Sociology & Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado Boulder
Areas of Expertise: Victimization; Violence; Criminological Theory; Inequality; Health; Development; Punishment; Race; Quantitative Methods; Qualitative Methods
