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Melissa Bemiller, PhD
Associate Professor of Social SciencesAugusta University
Dr. Bemiller's research focuses on violent victimization: homicide, sex crimes, and portrayals of violence in mass media.
John Kraft
DeanGeorgia Southern University
John Kraft is the interim head of the college of behavioral and social sciences and has written about human social behavior.
Todd Williams, PhD
Professor of Social SciencesAugusta University
Dr. Todd Williams is an expert in social movements, protest, social control, policing, police use of force and sociological theory.
Dr Graeme Hayes
Reader in Sociology and PolicyAston University
Dr Hayes focuses on the criminalisation of protest movements, direct action, civil disobedience & the trials of activists.
Dr Elisabeth Schimpfössl
Senior LecturerAston University
Dr Schimpfössl's research interests are the sociology of elites as well as power and social inequality.
Dr Felicity Deamer
Research Fellow, EnglishAston University
Dr Deamer's research explores the linguistic and communicative dynamics of police interviews.
Tom Mills
Lecturer in Sociology and PolicyAston University
Tom Mills is a sociologist with an interest in media and communications, elite institutions and networks, and the use of digital methods.
Professor Imran Awan
Professor of CriminologyBirmingham City University
He is one of the UK’s leading criminologists and experts on Islamophobia and countering extremism.
Dr Tahmineh Tayebi
Senior Lecturer in Forensic LinguisticsAston University
Dr Tayebi is interested in online offensive and abusive language and similar phenomena, such as cyberbullying, hate speech and online harm.
Dr Joseph Yannielli
Lecturer, HistoryAston University
Dr Yannielli’s main fields of interest are slavery and abolition, with a special focus on America during the nineteenth century.