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CURRICULUM VITAE

H. James Geistman Jr.

|Campus Address |Home Address |

|3237 Faculty/Administration Building |1009 Hancock |

|Wayne State University |Saginaw MI 48602 |

|Detroit, MI 48202 |(989) 295-2137 |

|Phone: (313) 577-1909 | |

|Email: al9322@wayne.edu | |

Education

PhD in Criminal Justice

University of Nebraska at Omaha

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Dissertation Topic: Attitudes of Criminal Justice and Other Majors toward the Crime of Stalking

Advisor: Dr. Robbin Ogle

M. S. in Criminal Justice

Wayne State University

Thesis Title: Police Responses to Stalking

Advisor: Dr. Brad Smith

M. A. in Teaching English in the Community College

Central Michigan University

B. A. (Majors: Criminal Justice and English; Minor: Sociology)

Saginaw Valley State University

Magna Cum Laude

Teaching Experience

Wayne State University (Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Facilitator of

the Online Master’s Program)

August 2014 – Present

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate: Introduction to Criminal Justice, Corrections, Research Methods

Graduate: The Nature of Crime, Delinquency and Justice, Harassment, Bullying, and Stalking (special topic)

Siena Heights University (Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice)

August 2012 – August 2014

Courses Taught: Introduction to Corrections, Introduction to Criminal Justice, Report Writing in Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, Criminology

Ohio Northern University (Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice)

August 2009 – 2012

Courses Taught: Introduction to Criminal Justice, Criminal Behavior,

Criminology, Hate Groups, Stalking, Police, Domestic Violence, Crime and the Media, Wrongful Convictions, Women and Minorities in Criminal Justice

Wayne State University (Lecturer in Criminal Justice)

August 2007 – May 2009

Courses Taught: Introduction to Criminal Justice, Corrections, Research Methods

University of Nebraska at Omaha (Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant)

August 2005 - May 2007

Courses Taught: Criminology, Research Methods, Corrections, Wrongful

Convictions and the Death Penalty

Saginaw Valley State University (Instructor of Criminal Justice)

July 2003 - July 2005

Courses Taught: Introduction to Criminal Justice, Human Relations in Criminal Justice, Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, Policing, Terrorism, Senior Seminar

Wayne State University (Adjunct Instructor in Criminal Justice)

May - June 2003

Course Taught: Introduction to Criminal Justice

Wayne State University (Graduate Teaching Assistant)

September 2002 - April 2003

Course Taught: Introduction to Criminal Justice

Saginaw Valley State University (Lecturer in English)

January 1991 - August 2002

Courses Taught: Freshman Composition and Sophomore Literature

Saginaw Valley State University (Adjunct Instructor in English)

January 1985 - June 1989

Courses Taught: Freshman Composition, Advanced Composition, Sophomore Literature

Delta College (Adjunct Instructor in English)

August 1985 - August 1989; January 1990 - April 1990; Spring/Summer Semesters 1990 - 1994

Courses Taught: Freshman Composition and Sophomore Literature

Delta College (Teaching Intern in English)

August 1984 - December 1984

Courses Taught: Freshman Composition

Central Michigan University (Graduate Teaching Assistant)

January 1984 - April 1984

Course Assisted In: Basic Writing

University of Michigan (Graduate Teaching Assistant)

September 1981 - April 1982

Courses Assisted In: Freshman and Sophomore Literature

Professional Memberships

American Society of Criminology

Awards and Honors

2007 Graduate Teaching Award, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice,

University of Nebraska at Omaha

2005 Scholarship in School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of

Nebraska at Omaha

2003 Frank Hartung Award, Wayne State University, May 2003. This award is given once a year to either undergraduate or graduate students for a paper in the area of criminology

2002 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Wayne State University

Who’s Who among American Teachers

1999 Terry Ishihara Award for Co-Curricular Involvement, Saginaw Valley State

University

1998 Who’s Who among American Teachers

1983 University Fellow, Central Michigan University

1981 Michigan English Teaching Apprenticeship, University of Michigan

Publications

2014 Entry for “Alan Greenspan.” Encyclopedia of Lying and Deception, Ed. Timothy R Levine. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

2013 Lambert, Eric G., Brad Smith, James Geistman, Terry Cluse-Tolar, and Shanhe Jiang. “Do Men and Women Differ in Their Views on Stalking: An Exploratory Study among College Students.” Violence and Victims, 28.2, 195-209.

2013 Geistman, James, Brad Smith, Eric G. Lambert, Terry Cluse-Tolar.  “What to Do About Stalking: A Preliminary Study of How Stalking Victims Responded to Stalking and Their Perceptions of the Effectiveness of These Actions.” Criminal Justice Studies[pic]26. 1[pic] (2013): 1-24. 

2013 Geistman, James. Entry for “Cleveland.” Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America, Ed. Jeffrey Ian Ross. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

2012 Entries for “Arraignment,” “Court of Common Pleas,” “Defendant’s Rights,” and “Sheriffs.” The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America, Ed. Wilbur R. Miller, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

2012 Entry for “Sarah Osborn.” Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues. Ed. Vicky Jensen. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

2011 Geistman, James. Women, the Crime of Stalking, and Its Effects: A Study of Police Attitudes and Practices. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.

2011 Book Review: American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate by Pete Simi and Robert Futrell. Terrorism and Political Violence 23.1, 118-122.

2010 Book Review: In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance by Wilbert Rideau. ACJS Today (15 October 2010).

2007 Geistman, James, and Brad W. Smith. “Juvenile Attitudes toward Police: A National Study.” Journal of Crime & Justice, 30.2, 27-51.

2006 Research Assistant: Robinson, T. H., et al. (2006, May). Final Report to the MA Treatment Study Committee of the Nebraska Community Corrections Council:Moving past the era of good intentions: Methamphetamine treatment study. State of Nebraska Contract No. 12969-04. Omaha: University of Nebraska at Omaha

2005 Research Assistant: Robinson, T. H., et al. (2005, December). Initial Report to the MA Treatment Study Committee of the Nebraska Community Corrections Council: Moving past the era of good intentions: Methamphetamine treatment study. State of Nebraska Contract No. 12969-04. Omaha: University of Nebraska at Omaha

2002 Book Review: Capital Punishment by Harry Henderson. ACJS Today

Works in Progress

2015 Currently, I have 3 entries (“Ethiopia,” “India,” and “Life without Parole”) under review for The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy; Eds. Bruce A. Arrigo, J. Geoffrey Golson. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

2017 I have a paper entitled “Criminal Justice: Fact and Fiction” under review at the Journal of Correctional Education.

Presentations

2010 James Geistman. “Attitudes of Criminal Justice and Other Majors toward the Crime of Stalking.” Paper presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association in Chicago, Illinois.

2009 James Geistman, Brad Smith, Eric Lambert, and Terry Cluse-Tolar. “Stalking Experiences and Attitudes of College Students.”  Paper presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2009 Brad Smith, Eric Lambert, and James Geistman. “Race and Opinions of

Stalking: an Exploratory Study of the Stalking Views of Black and White College Students.”  Paper presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association in Chicago, Illinois.

2007 Presentation: “Teaching the Wrongful Convictions Class.”

Miscarriages of Justice Conference

University of Central Missouri

2006 Presentation: “University Police Responses to the Stalking of Female Undergraduates”

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Conference

Baltimore, MD

2004 Presentation: “Police Responses to Stalking”

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Conference

Las Vegas, NV

2004 Presentation: “Juveniles’ Attitudes toward the Police: The Influence of Subcultural Preferences and Personal Experiences”

Midwest Criminal Justice Association Annual Conference

Chicago, IL

Other Scholarly Work

2012 Review panel member for Oxford University Press, for the proposed text entitled Wrongful Conviction: An Illustrated History, written by Robert Schehr and illustrated by Dan Archer.

2012 Review panel member for Oxford University Press, for the revision of the text entitled Criminological Theories, written by Robert Agnew and Christine Sellers.

Service to the Profession

2006 Chair of the “Roles, Responses, and Barriers to Police” session at the Academy of Criminal Justice Society Annual Conference

Baltimore, MD

University Service

At Siena Heights University

Volunteered in CRJ 385: Fact and Fiction, a course taught at the Gus

Harrison Correctional Facility in Adrian. I team-taught a number of class

sessions with other faculty members

Member of the New Faculty Committee

At Ohio Northern University

2012 Coordinator, Heroin in Hardin County (OH) Program, Spring Semester, 2012

Judge, Model United Nations Competition, October 3, 2009 and October 2, 2010

Judge, Mock Trial Competition, January 13, 2011 and January 14, 2012.

Senior Research Essay Advisor

Internship Advisor

At Wayne State University

Honors Chair, 2007 - 2009

Undergraduate Committee Chair, 2007 - Present

Essay Advisor: Merita Gjetaj, MS, “Why Women Stay in Abusive Relationships” August 2008

Member, Graduate Committee, Fall 2014 – Present

Member, Policy and Practices Committee, Fall 2014 – Present

Chair, Search Committee for Lecturer (Ebonie Byndon-Fields), Spring 2015

Member, CLAS Online Advisory Group

At Saginaw Valley State University

Search Committees: Political Science faculty (2004-2005); Library Reference position, 2003; English faculty, 1999

Evaluation Teams: Erik Trump (English, 1998); Carol Shaw (Spanish, 2001); Thomas Meehan & Laura Yelsik (English, 2001-2002) (team chair)

Co-Editor: Literacy Link (English Department Newsletter, October 1992 - April 2002). Literacy Link is a campus-wide newsletter in which faculty members from all disciplines discuss their use of writing in the various disciplines

Hearing Officer: For Campus & Residential Life Office (September 1999 – August 2005)

Advisor: The Valley Vanguard (student newspaper of Saginaw Valley State University) (1995-2001)

References

Eric Lambert

Professor and Chair

Department of Criminal Justice

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Wayne State University

3281 Faculty Administration Building

Detroit, Michigan 48202

313-577-3281

dz9258@wayne.edu

Dr. Peter G. Simi

Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

6001 Dodge Street, CPACS Room 218

University of Nebraska Omaha

Omaha, NE 68182

402-554-2610

psimi@mail.unomaha.e​du

Dr. Brad Smith

Associate Professor

Department of Criminal Justice

Wayne State University

3265 Faculty/Administration Building

Detroit, MI 48202

313-577-0975

ag3416@wayne.edu

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