Faculty

Dr. H. Christian Breede CD

Visting Faculty, TRSS Professional Master's Program
Associate Professor, Political Science (The Royal Military College of Canada)
Deputy Director, Centre for International and Defence Policy (Queen's University)
hans_breede@sfu.ca

Research Interests:  Defence and Security policy analysis, implications upon social cohesion of emerging technology, analysis of military culture

Courses Taught:  TRSS 731 Policy Making and Decision Analysis in Counter-Terrorism and Security Studies (Summer 2021 and Fall 2022); TRSS 740 Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods and Statistical Modeling (Fall 2021)

 

Dr. Richard Frank
Assistant Professor, School of Criminology
Director, International CyberCrime Research Centre (ICCRC)
rfrank@sfu.ca

Research interests: Cybercrime, hackers' and extremists' use of the internet, data-mining and classification, computational criminology, environmental criminology.

Courses taught: CRIM 742 G100 Cybersecurity (Fall 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019 & Summer 2020)

Dr. Stephen Hart

Professor, Department of Psychology
Associate Member, School of Criminology
hart@sfu.ca

Research Interests: Psychology and law, psychopathy, mentally disordered offenders, violence risk, wife assault, psychological assessment, personality disorder.

Courses taught: CRIM 721 G100 Psychological Assessment of Risk for Terrorism and Group-Based Violence (Spring 2019)

Mr. Scott Newark
Vice Chair/ Operations, National Security Group
Editorial Board of FrontLine Security 
dnewark@sfu.ca

Courses taught: CRIM 720 G100 Fundamentals of Security Risk Management (Summer 2020); CRIM 730 G100 Terrorism and Civil Liberties: Canadian, Comparative and International Perspectives (Summer 2017, Summer 2018 & Summer 2020); TRSS 731 G100 Policy Making and Decision Analysis in Counter-Terrorism and Security Studies (Summer 2020)

Dr. Roger P. Warren
Assistant Professor, School of Criminology
rogerw@sfu.ca

Research interests and areas of MA supervision:  Arab and Western foreign fighters, radicalization, Islamist terrorism, the ideology of political Islam, 'suicide' and/or 'martyrdom' operations, Arabic language social media. 

Courses taught:  CRIM 710 Current Issues in Terrorism (Summer 2019; Spring 2020); CRIM 711 Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorism (Autumn 2018; Spring 2020); CRIM 720 Fundamentals of Security Risk Management (Autumn 2019; Summer 2020).

Dr. Sean Zwagerman

Acting Director, Terrorism, Risk & Security Studies (TRSS) and Associate Dean, Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
fassadgs@sfu.ca

Course:  TRSS 798 MA Project (Research Report)