Our Faculty
There are 10 core faculty and 7 support faculty members who will teach in the program. All core faculty have a doctoral degree in criminal justice or closely related fields and are graduates of Research I universities. Each of the core faculty have areas of concentration, expertise, and research that scaffold the instructional and pedagogical focus of the proposed program (i.e., homeland security).
As a cadre of faculty members they represent different academic ranks ranging from assistant professor, associate professor, to full professor. The spread and distribution of faculty across academic ranks ensures a sustainable progression and diversity of perspectives that derive from various academic training locations and generations. Each of the core and support faculty brings strengths and experiences to the program, and you can find more information here.
Core Faculty
Provost & VP for Academic Affairs
Professor
KLM-329A
956.326.2240
csanmiguel@tamiu.edu
Dr. Claudia San Miguel is Provost & VP for Academic Affairs and Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas A&M International University. Her areas of expertise include the death penalty, human trafficking, domestic violence, victimology, and homeland security. Dr. San Miguel has acquired over several million dollars in grant funding.
Sean Maddan is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Texas A&M International University. His research areas include criminological theory, statistics, research methods, court processing, and the efficacy of sex offender registration and notification laws. Dr. Maddan has authored numerous articles which have appeared in many outlets including Justice Quarterly, Crime and Justice, Journal of Criminal Justice, and the American Journal of Criminal Justice. Dr. Maddan has also authored/co-authored several books.
Dr. Huseyin Cinoglu is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Social Sciences at Texas A&M International University. He has published and presented extensively on violent extremism and terrorism, radicalization and deradicalization, homeland security, immigration, crime and criminality, and identity formation. He recently published "Typologies of Terrorist Organizations" with Carolina Academic Press in 2025. Along with other books, he has also co-edited "Social Psychology of Terrorism" in Turkish. His recent projects examine online radicalization and the use of artificial intelligence in crime and justice. His work has appeared in outlets such as the International Annals of Criminology, published by Cambridge University Press, the International Journal on Criminology, and the Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies.
Co-Director of Criminal Justice
Associate Professor
AIC 345
956.326.2626
daniel.scott@tamiu.edu
Dr. Daniel Scott focuses on gangs, corrections, and the application of Criminological Theory to Criminal Justice policy/programs in his research with a primary focus on young offenders. When conducting research Dr. Scott utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methods, in addition to mixed methods. His work has appeared in multiple journals including Crime & Delinquency, Policing: An International Journal, and the Journal of Youth Studies, among others.
Dr. Marcus Tyler Carey’s background is in environmental criminology and risk reduction, and his areas of specialization include juvenile rehabilitation, community corrections, and perceptions of police. His work has recently appeared in Crime & Delinquency, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and elsewhere.
Dr. Brittany Hood is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas A&M International University. Her areas of research focus on the experiences of criminal justice-involved individuals with mental illness and serial homicide. Her recent research explored the roles of organizational-level variables in treatment decisions for those with criminal justice involvement and serious mental illness in community mental health centers, as well as methods of identification for approximately 700 domestic serial homicide offenders. Her current research focuses on Hispanics and mental illness, including attitudes towards seeking mental health treatment and mapping pathways to treatment for Hispanics with mental health and substance abuse diagnoses.
Dr. Seungmug (Zech) Lee is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas A&M International University. His research areas include burglar alarm systems, female burglars, private security/security management, mass shootings, crime prevention/environmental criminology, international crime and policing, and church-based private prisons. He has completed several grant research projects. The fourth edition of his co-authored book with Dr. Robert D. McCrie of John Jay College, Security Operations Management, was published by Elsevier in 2023. His work has appeared in handbooks, monographs, and multiple journals including Crime & Delinquency, Security Journal, the Journal of Applied Security Research, the International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, Police: An International Journal, the International Journal of Cyber Criminology, and Trends in Organized Crime, among others.
Dr. Narim Lee is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas A&M International University. Her research interests include gender-based violence, cyber victimization, and bystander behavior in digital spaces. Her work is grounded in quantitative methods, with a particular emphasis on survey design, primary data collection, and statistical analysis. She has developed and administered large-scale surveys to examine victimization patterns, help-seeking behaviors, and the emotional and cultural dynamics of intimate partner violence and cyber abuse. Her publications appear in Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Crime & Justice, Korean Journal of Woman Psychology, and Criminal Investigation Studies, among others.
Dr. Eileen Huey is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice. Her research focuses on wrongful convictions, disparities in court-processing, and genocide. Dr. Huey is a critical criminologist whose recent research has investigated the influence of race and gender on guilty pleas among the wrongfully convicted, the influence of age and intellectual disability on the likelihood of false confession, the effect of indigent defense services on several key contributors to wrongful conviction, and how the culture of criminal-legal institutions exacerbates systemic inequalities.
Support Faculty
Contact
Department of Social Sciences
Academic Innovation Center 313
Phone: 956.326.2475 | Email: brenda.martinez@tamiu.edu