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Speaker Bios for NIJ's "Research for the Real World" Seminar Series

Dr. David Adams is co-founder and Co-Director of Emerge, a non-profit organization dedicated to stopping domestic violence. Dr. Adams has 29 years experience working with men who batter and is a nationally recognized trainer and researcher. He has published numerous articles about domestic violence. Dr. Adams is Co-Chair of the Batterer Intervention Working Group of the Massachusetts Commission on Domestic Violence and has done trainings in over 30 states and 5 nations. He currently co-leads the fatherhood parenting group, and recently authored and directed a Danger Assessment DVD. View Dr. Adam's presentation with Dr. Gelles and Dr. Campbell or read the transcript.

Ms. Roseanna Ander is the Executive Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. She has a wealth of experience focused on reducing youth violence, most notably with the Joyce Foundation in Chicago. She holds a Master of Science degree in health policy from Harvard University's School of Public Health. View Ms. Ander's presentation with Dr. Jens Ludwig or read the transcript.

Greg Berman is Director of the Center for Court Innovation, which recently won the Peter F. Drucker Prize for Nonprofit Innovation. The Center has been responsible for implementing more than 20 demonstration projects, including the Midtown Community Court and the Red Hook Community Justice Center. In addition to Trial & Error in Criminal Justice Reform, Greg is the co-author of Good Courts: The Case for Problem-Solving Justice (The New Press). View Mr. Berman's presentation or read the transcript.

Dr. Jackie Campbell is the Anna D. Wolf Chair and a Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has been conducting advocacy policy work and research in the area of domestic violence since 1980. Dr. Campbell has been the PI of 10 major NIH, NIJ or CDC research grants and published more than 150 articles and seven books on domestic violence. She serves on the Boards of Directors of the Family Violence Prevention Fund and the House of Ruth Battered Women's Shelter, and was a member of the congressionally appointed U.S. Department of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence. View Dr. Campbell's presentation with Dr. Gelles and Dr. Adams or read the transcript.

Dr. Redonna K. Chandler is currently the Chief of the Services Research Branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health. She provides scientific leadership on research intended to improve the quality of drug abuse treatment and recovery services, with a special emphasis on the implementation of evidence-based interventions. She is also an instructor for the National Judicial College, providing training to presiding judges on addiction research and treatment. Prior to joining NIDA, she worked for the Bureau of Prisons, implementing and evaluating substance abuse treatment programs for federally sentenced offenders. Dr. Chandler was trained as a psychologist and received her doctoral degree from the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Phillip J. Cook is ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of Economics and Sociology at Duke University. He served as director and chair of Duke's Sanford Institute of Public Policy from 1985-89, and again from 1997-99, and is currently Senior Associate Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy. He has active research programs on a number of topics, including truancy prevention, crime prevention through private action, and alcohol control policy. His most recent books are Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs (co-edited with Jens Ludwig and Justin McCrary: University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Paying the Tab (Princeton University Press, 2007). He is currently vice chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice, previously served as a member of the Division Committee for the Behavioral Sciences, and serves as co-director of the Crime Lab at the University of Chicago. View Dr. Cook's presentation or read the transcript.

Dr. Felton Earls is Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Human Behavior and Development at Harvard School of Public Health. His interests span child mental health, epidemiology, and human rights. From 1990 to 2005, he was the principal investigator for the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a multilevel, longitudinal study on the causes and consequences of children’s exposure to violence. View Dr. Earl's presentation with Dr. Jens Ludwig or read the transcript.

Dr. Jeffrey Edleson , is a professor in the University of Minnesota School of Social Work and Director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. He is one of the world's leading authorities on children exposed to domestic violence and has published more than 100 articles and 10 books on domestic violence, group work, and program evaluation. View Dr. Edleson's presentation with Dr. Lindhorst or read the transcript.

Dr. Richard Gelles holds The Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Director for the Center for Research on Youth & Social Policy and Co-Director of the Field Center for Children's Policy Practice & Research. Dr. Gelles is an internationally known expert in domestic violence and child welfare. He was influential in the passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. He is the author of 24 books and more than 100 articles, chapters and papers in the areas of child welfare and family violence, including The Violent Home, which was the first systematic investigation to provide empirical data on domestic violence. He is currently in the process of co-authoring another text, Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families. View Dr. Gelles's presentation with Dr. Campbell and Dr. Adams or read the transcript.

Dr. David Kirk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Faculty Research Associate of the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Kirk was formerly Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland (from 2006-2009). Prior to earning his doctorate at the University of Chicago, Kirk worked at the Urban Institute. Kirk's current research explores the influence of social context and neighborhood change on behavior. One ongoing project examines the structural and cultural predictors of neighborhood violence. Kirk's recent research has appeared in American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Demography, and Criminology. View Dr. Kirk's presentation or read the transcript.

Dr. Edward Latessa is the director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. He is co-author of seven books including Corrections in the Community and Corrections in America. Among his many awards, Professor Latessa is the recipient of the American Society of Criminology Vollmer Award (2004), which recognizes research contributions to criminal justice policy. He is also the 2010 recipient of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Bruce Smith Sr. Award, which recognizes leadership in criminal justice and active involvement in criminal justice research resulting in substantial contributions to the emerging body of knowledge. View Dr. Latessa's presentation or read the transcript.

Dr. Janet L. Lauritsen is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.  Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of victimization, the social and historical contexts of crime and victimization, and quantitative research methodologies.  She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, where she is working with data from the National Crime Victimization Survey to measure patterns and trends in repeat victimization. Her most recent publications cover topics such as long-term trends in reporting crime to the police, the relationship between changing economic conditions and violent victimization, and gender differences in risk factors for victimization as well as trends in offending. Dr. Lauritsen is a member of the Committee on Law and Justice for the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academies of Science.  She also serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals including Criminology, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, and the American Journal of Sociology.

Dr. Taryn Lindhorst is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on violence against women, health, and policy implementation. Dr. Lindhorst is also involved in projects looking at the long-term impact of domestic violence on women's mental health, relationship violence among sexual minority youth, and policy issues related to violence against women. View Dr. Lindhorst's presentation with Dr. Edleson or read the transcript.

Dr. Jens Ludwig is Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is one of the nation's leading gun policy researchers and has also published extensively about "neighborhood effects" on crime, early childhood interventions, and application of benefit-cost methods to crime policy analysis. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University. View Dr. Ludwig's presentation or read the transcript.

Lawrence Sherman is the Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. View Dr. Sherman's presentation or read the transcript.

Sudha Shetty, Esq., is Director of the International Fellowship Program at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and a Lecturer in the Institute's Masters of Public Policy Program. She speaks and writes extensively on domestic violence issues facing immigrant women and women of color.

Christopher Stone is the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice and the Director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. View Dr. Stones's presentation or read the transcript.

Dr. David Weisburd is a Distinguished Professor of Administration of Justice at George Mason University. He also holds a joint tenured appointment as the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, Israel. At his current appointment at George Mason University, he is the Director of the Center on Evidence-based Crime Policy. Through this appointment, he is spearheading and continuing the hot spots policing work that won him the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. View Dr. Weisburd's presentation or read the transcript.

Dr. Weisburd is one of the leading international researchers in crime and justice, and has received more than $7,000,000 in competitive research grants. Dr. Weisburd is author or editor of fifteen books and more than eighty scientific articles that cover a wide range of criminal justice research topics, including crime at place, violent crime, white collar crime, policing, illicit markets, criminal justice statistics, social deviance criminology, and justice criminology. Dr. Weisburd serves as a Senior Fellow at the Police Foundation in Washington DC and is Chair of its Research Advisory Committee. He is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology, and is a member of the Harvard University Executive Session in Policing. He is Co-Chair of the steering committee of the Campbell Crime and Justice Group, and a member of the Campbell Collaboration International Steering Group. Dr. Weisburd is also a member of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council (NRC). He served on the NRC working group on Evaluating Anti-Crime Programs and its panel on Police Practices and Policies.

Date Modified: March 16, 2012