UC Policing Institute Affiliates |
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Rob Tillyer, M.A. Assistant Director Email: Rob.Tillyer@uc.edu |
Rob is an advanced doctoral student in the Ph.D. program at the University of Cincinnati. Originally from Vancouver, BC; currently, he is actively involved in multiple research projects studying police officer decision making, with a focus on racial bias and identifying “best practices” in officer-citizen encounters. His other interests include studying the causes of criminal behavior from a crime prevention perspective with a focus on temporal and spatial analyses. |
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Katie Donovan, B.A. Email: Katie.Donovan@uc.edu
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Katie is relatively new to the criminal justice field, having graduated from Emory in 2005 with a degree in English/Creative Writing. After a semester of graduate work in criminal justice at the University of Albany, she is now a full time student in the master's program here at UC, and looking forward to working in the Policing Institute. In her spare time she does karate, compulsively checks CNN, and feeds the pigeons on her balcony. |
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Justin Heinonen, M.A. Email: Justin.Heinonen@uc.edu |
Justin is a second year doctoral student at UC. Before coming to UC, he earned a BS in Criminal Justice at the University of Toledo and an MS in Criminal Justice at Bowling Green State University. His research interests include environmental criminology, crime analysis, and situational crime prevention. This is his first year as part of the Policing Institute, where he will be working on the Uptown Consortium project. |
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Ben Hoehn, M.S. Email: Ben.Hoehn@uc.edu |
Ben is a first year doctoral student involved with the Policing Institute, who received an undergraduate degree in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. He stayed at UC and finished his M.S. in Criminal Justice in the summer of 2006, before beginning the Ph.D. pursuit. Ben recently begun to work with the Policing Institute and is currently working on the Project on Police Citizen Contacts as a project manager. |
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Charles Klahm, M.S Email: Charles.Klahm@uc.edu |
Charles earned a Bachelor of Science degree (Cum Laude) in Sociology from Northern Kentucky University and a Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include examining the role of extralegal factors (i.e., gender, age, race, education level, etc.) across decision points in the criminal justice process, police and community relations, and the use of biometric technology as a crime prevention mechanism. |
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Daniel Lytle, M.S. Email: Daniel.Lytle@uc.edu |
Daniel recently graduated from Marquette University with a B.A. (Cum Laude) in Criminology and Law Studies and a minor in Theology in 2005. He received his Master’s of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2006. His current position in the department is Assistant Editor of Policing: An international journal of police strategies and management. |
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Troy Payne, M.S. |
Troy Payne earned his BS in Criminal Justice from IUPUI in 2005 and his MS in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2006. His research interests include effective use of technology in criminal justice, police management, and situational crime prevention. |
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Marie Skubak, M.S. Email: Marie.Skubak@uc.edu |
Marie Skubak received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Dayton and a Master of Science from the University of Cincinnati. . As a research associate for the Uptown Consortium, her current work involves helping the members of the Consortium identify crime problems, design appropriate interventions, and evaluate the impact of their interventions. |
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Cody Stoddard, M.S. Email: Cody.Stoddard@uc.edu |
In 2004, Cody graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in Criminal Justice Administration with an emphasis in Courts and Law and a B.S. in Political Science with an emphasis in Political Philosophy and Public Law from Boise State University. In 2005, he graduated with a M.A. in Criminal Justice Administration from Boise State University. His research interests focus on best practices in search and seizure, attitudes towards the police, and legal issues including criminal procedure, constitutional law, civil liberties and jurisprudence. |
