Dr. Thomas McNulty, Associate Professor of Sociology, has been at the University of Georgia since 1996. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University at Albany (SUNY) in 1996. His specialty areas include criminology and urban sociology.  Dr. McNulty's recent work focuses on testing multilevel theoretical models of racial and ethnic disparities in crime/violence, with emphasis on the intersection of individual differences and family, school, and neighborhood contexts. Related research stresses the role of persistent exposure to material hardship in the onset of externalizing and aggressive behavior in childhood, with implications for delinquency in adolescence. He teaches Criminology (SOCI 3810).For additional information please click here.

Maltese’s books include The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees (winner of the “C. Herman Pritchett Award” from the Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association), Spin Control: The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News, The Politics of the Presidency (co-authored with Joseph A. Pika) which is currently in its 8th edition, and Government Matters: American Democracy in Context (co-authored with Joseph A. Pika and W. Philips Shively). He is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor (the University of Georgia’s highest teaching honor) and was named the 2004 Georgia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). He has served as a Senior Teaching Fellow and is a member of the UGA Teaching Academy. He is the founding director of the SPIA at Oxford Study Abroad Program and was named the OIE Study Abroad Director of the Year in 2003. He has written editorials for the Washington Post and Atlanta Journal-Constitution and has been widely quoted and cited in the national and international media, from CNN.com and the Wall Street Journal to the New Yorker and La Stampa. He has been interviewed on C-SPAN, Fox News, and National Public Radio, and was an on-screen commentator for the French documentary film, Le storytelling ou l’art de raconter les histoires, which traces how narrative techniques have changed political communication. In 2007, he directed a 3-day conference at the University of Georgia on the presidency of Jimmy Carter that aired live on C-SPAN and won the CASE District III Award for Institutional Events.

In his spare time, Maltese writes about classical music and, with his father, is the official biographer of the violinist Jascha Heifetz. Both he and his father won a Grammy Award in 1996 from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for liner notes that they co-authored for the 65-CD BMG Classics set, The Heifetz Collection, and they have also co-authored liner notes for Deutsche Grammophon and Sony, and co-produced a CD set, The Dawn of Recording, comprised of homemade cylinder recordings from the 1890s that they discovered in Russia (including the voices of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky and performances by leading 19th-century musicians who made no other known recordings). The set was named the “Recording of the Month” by CD Review in March 2009 and garnered major stories in such outlets as the New York Times and NPR’s “All Things Considered.”  Maltese is an on-screen commentator in the documentary film God’s Fiddler, directed by the Emmy Award-winning Peter Rosen, which received its regional premiere at UGA’s Hodgson Hall in 2011 as part of a “Heifetz Celebration” that Maltese organized with the support of the President’s Venture Fund and other units on campus. Material from his extensive collection of musical autographs and manuscripts formed the basis of an exhibit at the UGA Museum of Art in 2006 and at the Hollywood Bowl Museum in 2001.

Dan Silk is the Chief of the University of Georgia Police Department, and has served more than 20 years in local, campus, and federal law enforcement. In 2009 he was a Fulbright Police Research Fellow in the United Kingdom, which provided data for his PhD dissertation in UGA's Department of Lifelong Education, Administration and Policy. He teaches POLS 4900 (Law Enforcement Administration).

Teena Wilhelm is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science. She has been at the University of Georgia since 2005, and received her PhD in American Politics from the University of Arizona. Her authored or co-authored research has appeared in major political science and legal studies journals, and has been honored by the Southern Political Science Association. Her research has also garnered a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Wilhelm’s teaching and research specialties are judicial institutions, state politics, and constitutional law. She has been recognized for outstanding teaching by the School of Public and International Affairs, the Department of Political Science, the Honors Program, and the American Political Science Association. She is an affiliated faculty with the Criminal Justice Studies Program, and is also involved in several GLOBIS study abroad programs. Wilhelm has been a mentor for the Honors Program since 2008, and currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies.

Rich Vining holds the Ph.D. in Political Science from Emory University (2008). His research interests center on courts and judicial politics and process. He supervises interns and teaches Criminal Justice Administration (POLS 3600). For more information please click here.

Todd Krohn holds the M.A. in Sociology from Georgia State University (1993). With interests in critical penology and crime as political capital Mr. Krohn teaches Criminology (SOCI 3810) and Criminal Punishment and Society (SOCI 3150). For more information please click here.