Shelagh E. Dorn

Shelagh Dorn, a doctoral student at the University at Albany, is employed at a fusion center as a senior supervising intelligence analyst. She has worked extensively in the intelligence analysis training field as an instructor and as a subject matter expert and has previous experience in law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical services. Her areas of interest include: intelligence-led policing; evaluation research; law enforcement best practices; intelligence and fusion centers; and accountability mechanisms, satisfaction levels, and performance measures. Mrs. Dorn has served as a coordinator or research assistant for a variety of research projects through the University at Albany, including an evaluation of one city’s Citizen Police Review Board, the Police Early Warning System Project, the Albany Police Department Police Services Project, and the Capital District Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program.

Chris Harris, Ph.D.

Dr. Harris currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at UMass Lowell. He holds a Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University at Albany. His research interests are primarily in police performance and public perceptions of police, as well as evaluation research of various police initiatives. He has been involved in research with various police departments in New York State, including serving as the principal research analyst for Project Safe Neighborhoods in Syracuse, as well as an analyst for the Crime Analysis and Problem Solving partnership between the Albany police department and the University at Albany’s School of Criminal Justice. Chris was the recipient of the University at Albany School of Criminal Justice’s Distinguished Dissertation and the Walter M. Francis Policing awards.

MoonSun Kim, Ph.D.

Bio coming soon.

John D. McCluskey, Ph.D.

John McCluskey is currently an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany in 2002. His research interests include procedural justice, compliance, and criminology. He has worked as a consultant and researcher with a variety of criminal justice agencies throughout the U.S. That research has included the process and outcome evaluation of delinquency intervention programs, violence reduction initiatives, and community partnership-building efforts. His ongoing work with the Detroit, MI police department is focused on a National Institute of Justice sponsored evaluation of a gun-violence reduction effort in that city.