RaCERS Staff
Charles Jennings, Director
Assoc. Prof. Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management
cjennings@jjay@cuny.edu
646-557-4638
Prof. Norman Groner, Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus
ngroner@jjay.cuny.edu
Vytenis Babrauskas, 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, Research Associate
jcho@christianregenhardcenter.org
Andrea Fatica, Research Associate
afatica@jjay.cuny.edu
Eric Persaud, Doctoral Research Assistant
eric.persaud@christianregenhardcenter.org
Landy Familia, Research Assistant
lfamilia@christianregenhardcenter.org
Andrew Symbouras, Research Assistant
andrew.symbouras@jjay.cuny.edu
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, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management
pkearns@jjay.cuny.edu
Eric Piza, Department of Law and Police Science
epiza@jjay.cuny.edu
212-393-6376
Prof. 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
Susan Pickman, Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management
spickman@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:
Joe Clare, PhD University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
Fire prevention, program evaluation, crime and public safety analysis.
Mark D. Chubb, MPP, FIFireE
Public policy in emergency services, citizen engagement, and international management of protective services. Chubb is a former Chief officer in the US and New Zealand Fire Services, and has an extensive fire service and code background in the United States. He is also former President of the Institution of Fire Engineers United States Branch.
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, (Emertitus) 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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