Institute's Staff

 •Maulin Chris Herring - Executive Director
 •Savaun Perry - Education Consultant/Research Associate
 •Diane Sampson - Administrative Associate
 •Kimberly L. Murrell - graduate assistant

NCCU Faculty Past Research Collaborators

The IHSWD has hosted three NCCU roundtable sessions to discuss NCCU homeland security research interests and potential research. These sessions have been held at the Radisson Hotel, the Department of Criminal Justice and the Mary Townes Science Complex. The cumulative number of faculty attended for all three sessions is 75. Departments represented included Physics; Environmental, Earth & Geospatial; Math and Computer Science; Chemistry; Library and Information Sciences; Sociology; Psychology; Public Health and Criminal Justice.  Specific research collaboration has included Dr. Romocki, Public Health Education; Dr. Deborah Fortune, Public Health Education; Dr. Deborah Swain, Library and Information Sciences; Dr. Tom Cadwallader, Criminal Justice; Dr. Harvey McMurray, Criminal Justice; and Dr. Jessica Davis-Ganao, Criminal Justice.

Resources and Partners

• Mr. Stephen Miller, Retired Military Intelligence Officer and Joint Terrorism Task Force Member (Adjunct Professor)
• Mr. Robert Gattison, Customs/ICE SAC, Retired (Adjunct Professor)
• Mr. Matthew Hamidullah, Federal Prisons Warden, Retired (Adjunct Professor)
• Mr. Arthur Beeler, Federal Prisons Warden, Retired (Adjunct Professor)
• Mr. Larry Perkins, Assistant General Manager RBC Center, Crowd Control Expert (Serves on DHS Committee)
• Mr. James Pridgen, Director, Global Executive Protection and Risk Mitigation, Cummins Inc. (Serves on DHS Committee)
• Dr. Roxane Cohen Silver, Dept. of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine (Serves on DHS Committee)
• Dr. Mengie Parker, NCCU Department of Public Administration, National Gang Expert
• Dr. Branislov Vlohovic, NCCU College of Science and Technology
• Dr. Ravanasamudram N. Uma, NCCU Department of Math & Computer Science
• Dr. Deborah Fortune, Assistant Professor, NCCU Department of Public Health Education
• Dr. Thomas Cadwallader, Assistant Professor, NCCU Department of Criminal Justice
• Dr. Deborah Swain, Interim Associate Dean, NCCU School of Library and Information Science
• Dr. Laura Myers, Professor of Criminal Justice and Emergency Management, Department of Applied Criminology, Western Carolina University