Emily Homer
Chair
Emily M. Homer, PhD, is a graduate of the Department of Criminal Justice at University of Louisville. She is currently a Fraud Investigation Writer for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Emily’s work largely involves reviewing and updating educational materials related to fraud investigation. Her research focuses on theoretical explanations of financial crime with an eye toward prevention and detection. She hopes to help bridge the gap between scholars and practitioners and create interdisciplinary financial crime materials that will benefit both groups.
Adam Ghazi-Tehrani
Vice-Chair
Adam Ghazi-Tehrani is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director in the Criminology and Criminal Justice department at the University of Alabama and the Director of UA’s Network Intrusion Lab. Adam holds a B.A. from the University of California at Davis, an M.S. from the California State University at Long Beach, and both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Irvine. He is interested in regulatory, compliance, governmental, and societal factors on cyber and white-collar offenses.
His past work has focused on hidden crimes such as food adulteration, an attempt by the Chinese political apparatus to cover up a high-speed train crash, and on-going virtual threats from state-sponsored cyber actors. Adam’s current work examines the factors that allow for ongoing cyber offenses, as well as the domestic regulatory and compliance issues in the U.S. that keep corporations and the public vulnerable, and the effects of both on global trade and security.
Yuliya Zabyelina
Secretary / Treasurer
Dr. Yuliya Zabyelina is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama. Her research interests include economic criminology and the study of white-collar crime, with a focus on transnational organized crime and corruption. She has demonstrated outstanding service in the field, particularly through her leadership as Chair of the International Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) from 2021 to 2023. Currently, she serves as the ACJS Alternate Representative to the United Nations and Secretary of the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. In addition to her academic contributions, Dr. Zabyelina actively engages with the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC) and consults for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Katelyn Golladay
Executive Counselor
Katelyn A. Golladay, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology at the University of Wyoming. Katelyn obtained her B.B.A. from Pacific Lutheran University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University. Her interests include victimization, fraud, gender and crime, and criminological theory.
Her current work is focusing on fraud victimization in the context of online dating. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Financial Crime, Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and Victims & Offenders.
José Atiles
Executive Counselor
José Atiles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and a MA in Sociology of Law from the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati). His research and publications primarily focus on the criminological and sociolegal implications of US colonialism in Puerto Rico, shedding light on how corruption, state-corporate crime, and state violence exacerbates Puerto Rico’s unequal and undemocratic condition.
K. Sebastian León
Executive Counselor
Sebastian is a criminologist specializing in crimes of the powerful and the role of capital in shaping racialized social control. In addition to his collaborative portfolio on Latina/o/x Criminologies, Sebastian’s previous qualitative and quantitative research spans the gamut of police, courts, and corrections – focusing on politically sensitive phenomena like MS-13, the federal death penalty, and COVID-19 mitigation practices in jails and detention facilities within the NYC region. Taken together, Sebastian’s interdisciplinary research examines how state-corporate power maps onto public policy, criminal justice systems, and political discourses on Latina/o/x subjectivity. Prior to Rutgers, Sebastian was a Visiting Assistant Professor at George Washington University, Department of Sociology, and a research contractor at US Department of Justice – National Institute of Justice. Together with Dr. Ivy Ken (GWU Sociology), Sebastian has coproduced scholarship on the systemic harms of industrial food systems and the role of state-corporate power therein.
Megan Parker
Student Committee Chair
Megan Parker is a Ph.D. (ABD) at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs. Her research focuses on white-collar crime, exploring corporate self-regulation, the prosecution of white-collar corporate offenders, and the influence of regulatory agencies. Megan holds an M.A. in Criminal Justice and has received multiple academic awards, including being named the Outstanding Master’s Student of her graduating class and receiving the 2024 SPA Jane Hansberry Graduate Teaching Award. Over the past four years, Megan has been an instructor at the University of Colorado Denver, teaching courses such as criminological theory, white-collar crime, and research methods. Lastly, as Managing Book Review Editor for Crime, Law, and Social Change, she oversees the coordination and publication of book reviews. Megan works closely with Dr. Mary Dodge and has collaborated on several white-collar crime-related published research articles and book reviews. She is currently working on her dissertation, which seeks to advance theoretical perspectives on white-collar crime victimization.
Stephanie Geoghan
Student Committee Vice-Chair
Stephanie Geoghan is a third year doctoral student within Arizona State University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her research primarily focuses in the areas of policing and organizational justice, with taking particular interest in the gendered experiences of women in policing and their impact in changing police culture. She is also interested in how women in policing cope when there is a perceived lack of organizational justice within their departments, and what may influence officers to commit acts of misconduct. Further, Stephanie is the current Managing Editor for the Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, and has been serving in this role since August 2022.
Nicole Leeper Piquero
Past Co-Chair
ASC White-Collar and Corporate Crime
Wim Huisman
Past Co-Chair
ASC White-Collar and Corporate Crime
Shanna Van Slyke
Past Chair
ASC White-Collar and Corporate Crime