Carla Lewandowski, Ph.D.
Carla Lewandowski, Ph.D.
Carla Lewandowski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, International Studies Coordinator
Biography
Dr. Carla Lewandowski received a Certificate in Law, an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, M.S. from Oxford University and B.A. from Princeton University. Her main research interests include homeland security, terrorism, and policing. She has written many articles on the topic of fusion centers in order to understand how they collect and disseminate information. She recently co-wrote Extremism in the Police: A Reference Handbook (2024) and co-edited Criminal Justice in America: The Encyclopedia of Crime, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections (2020). Dr. Lewandowski teaches courses in International Terrorism, Race, Class, Ethnicity and Criminal Justice as well as an introductory criminal justice course. In 2024-2025, she is serving as the Fulbright García Robles U.S. Studies Chair at Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico.
Selected Publications
2024 - Lewandowski, C. and Jeff Bumgarner. Extremism in Policing.
Extremism in Policing. Bloomsbury.
2023 - Schell-Busey, N., Lewandowski, C., Sorg, E., Houser, K.
“An Exploration of Officer Gender and Use of Force Incidents in a Transit Police Department” Women and Criminal Justice 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/08974454.2023.2271464
2020 - Lewandowski, C. and Bumgarner, J. (Editors)
“Criminal Justice in America: The Encyclopedia of Crime, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections” ABC-CLIO.
2020 - Sorg, E., Houser, K., Lewandowski, C., and Schell-Busey, N.
The geographic concentration of use of force incidents at subway stations mimic the law of crime concentration bandwidths: A research note.The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles.
Lewandowski, Carla, Jeremy Carter, and Walter Campbell (2017) The role of people in information-sharing: Perceptions from an analytic unit of a regional fusion center.” Police, Practice, and Research, 18 (2): 174-193.
Lewandowski, Carla, Jeffrey Rojek, and Victor Manjarrez (2017) Using a fusion center model to manage and improve border security.” Journal of Applied Security Research, 12(1): 160-178.
