Faculty Highlights

Elyshia Aseltine, Professor of Criminal Justice, received a grant from the University of Baltimore and Ascendium Education for her project on Identifying and Scaling Programmatic Technical Assistance Resources in Higher Education in Prison. She is helping TU build a Reentry Services Roadmap in collaboration with Bowie State University and University of Baltimore—a statewide model for supporting reentry on college campuses across the University System of Maryland.

Suat Cubukcu, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, secured a $113,900 grant from the DHS through their Excellence Center, NCITE,  for the project Defining the Logic and Risk of Terrorist UAS Attacks in the United States. Over the course of a year, the interdisciplinary team produced three rapid review reports addressing (1) the logic and emerging trends in terrorist use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), (2) risk factors in terrorist adoption of UAS, and (3) knowledge gaps and vulnerabilities tied to future threats.

Vicky McAlister, Associate Professor of History, secured $85,000 in funding for two major projects. She received a Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society to support research in Ireland. Additionally, she was awarded a year-long residential fellowship from the Folger Institute to complete her second monograph, The Insular Globe: Animals and Landscapes of Colonization, Ireland c. 700–1700.