About me
Doctoral Candidate - Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice
Assistant professor of criminal justice - Department of Sociology & criminal justice, Kennesaw State University
My research focuses on extremism, extremists’ use of the technology, digital subcultures, and radicalization/mobilization. I use subcultural approaches to better understand individual exposure to extremist content, engagement pathways, and user behavior within online extremist spaces.
My overarching goal is to conduct research that contributes to our collective understanding of Internet facilitation of deviant and criminal behaviors. I aim to cultivate a deeper understanding of how these mechanisms manifest online and across digital modalities, as well as how this understanding can be leveraged to prevent offline harms and extremist violence. As a researcher, my goal is to understand how users become susceptible to and engage with online extremist spaces in order to support intervention and disengagement efforts, as well as prevent extremist acts both on- and offline. .
Currently, I am researching characteristics of youth mobilization, the strategic use of media platforms by women in extremist movements, nihilistic subcultures of violence, and the formation of ‘mixed, unclear, and unstable’ (MUU) ideologies online. My recent work has appeared in the Journal of Crime and Justice, Deviant Behavior, Sociological Focus, Crime & Delinquency, and in Critical Criminology; as well as the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence Blog and Global Network on Extremism & Terrorism (GNET) Insights.
Research Interests
Digital criminology
Extremism
Extremists’ use of online spaces
Deviant subcultures
(Dis)Engagement pathways and intervention practices
Tech-facilitated offending
Gender
Fellowships
Fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS)
RSAC Security Scholar (2023)
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