Bryan Arva Senior Professorial Lecturer Justice, Law, Criminology & Security

Degrees: Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University
M.A. West Virginia University
B.A. Loyola University of Maryland
Bio: Dr. Bryan Arva is currently the Chair of the Department of Justice, Law, Criminology and Security. Prior to taking on this role, he served as the director of the master's programs in Terrorism and Homeland Security Policy as well as Counterterrorism and Homeland Security. Additionally, he is a Senior Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Justice, Law, Criminology & Security in the School of Public Affairs at American University. He currently serves on the Counterterrorism Editorial Board for Homeland Security Today, is a Non-resident Fellow at the Orion Policy Institute, and is an Executive Committee Member for the Council for European Studies. Prior to coming to American University, he worked as a Researcher and Instructor at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. His research and teaching interests include terrorism, counterterrorism, homeland security, radicalization, preventing violent extremism, and the effects of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) on political violence.

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