RaCERS Staff
Charles Jennings, Director
Assoc. Prof. Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management
cjennings@jjay@cuny.edu
646-557-4638
Norman Groner, Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus
ngroner@jjay.cuny.edu
Vytenis Babrauskas, Senior Fellow
vbabrauskas@christianregenhardcenter.org
Michael Puzziferri, Senior Research Associate
mpuzziferri@christianregenhardcenter.org
Guy van Bencshoten, Senior Research Associate
gvanb@christianregenhardcenter.org
George Contreras, Senior Research Associate
gcontreras@christianregenhardcenter.org
Jung Cho, Ph.D., Research Associate
jcho@christianregenhardcenter.org
Affiliated Research Faculty at John Jay
Faculty with ongoing research activities or collaboration through the Center.
Dominick DeRubbio, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management
dderubbio@christianregenhardcenter.org
Paul Kearns, Lecturer, Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management
pkearns@jjay.cuny.edu
Susan Pickman, Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management
spickman@jjay.cuny.edu
Jason Rivera, Associate Professor, Public Management
jarivera@jjay.cuny.edu
Peter Romaniuk, Center on Terrorism, Department of Government
promaniuk@jjay.cuny.edu
212-237-8189
Charles Strozier, Prof. Emeritus, Center on Terrorism
cstrozier@jjay.cuny.edu
Denise Thompson, Department of Public Management
dthompson@jjay.cuny.edu
Robert Till, Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management
rtill@jjay.cuny.edu
212-484-1379
Lucia Velotti, Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management
lvelotti@jjay.cuny.edu
Hung-Lung Wei, Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management
hwei@jjay.cuny.edu
646-781-5130
Affiliated Research Faculty
The Center maintains affiliations with faculty from other institutions who work in this area. Affiliated faculty collaborate with RaCERS core faculty at John Jay College on research and publication, and cooperative grant-seeking.
Current Affiliated Research Faculty include:
Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, PhD, JD, Arizona State University kbh@asu.edu
Responses to public safety threat; community-government relations; evidence-based organizational decision-making and policymaking; applied, translational, and public social science.
Mark Chubb, CFO CFPS FCMI, Independent Consultant
Public policy, code compliance, housing, and fire protection engineering.
Joe Clare, PhD University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
Fire prevention, program evaluation, crime and public safety analysis.
Len Garis, University of the Fraser Valley (BC) CANADA
Evidence-based public safety, marihuana grow-op detection and interdiction, marihuana policy, opioid abuse, fire prevention.
Kate Kapelo, PhD, Department of Information Science and Quantitative Analysis, University of Nebraska -- Omaha
Human-computer interaction, User Experience/User Interface, First Responder Technology Adoption.
Tara Heagele, PhD, RN, PCCN, EMT Assistant Professor, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, Hunter College th1591@hunter.cuny.edu
Community disaster preparedness, geriatric disaster preparedness, public health
Roger A. Klein, MA, PhD, MB, BChir, CChem, FRSC, MIFireE, University of Bonn (ret.), Cambridge, ENGLAND
Risk analysis, workplace safety, hazardous materials, biological agents, and protective equipment. Klein, a physician, physiological chemist, is author of numerous studies on safety in emergency responders, incident command, and use of information technology.
Arvind Karunakaran, PhD, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, CANADA
Darryl Plecas, EdD, (Emeritus) School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, CANADA; Member of Legislative Assembly for British Columbia
Police operations, intelligence sharing, drug interdiction, international cross-border drug trade, and marijuana grow operations. Plecas held the Chair in Research sponsored by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He is currently a member of the British Columbia.
Shamik Sengupta, PhD, University of Nevada—Reno
Cognitive radio, dynamic spectrum access, wireless networking and mobile computing, network security.
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