Gibbs, Jennifer
Jennifer Gibbs Foltz
University of Maryland
faculty
jgibbs@crim.umd.edu
Jennifer Gibbs is a lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at of the University of Maryland, College Park and a member of the adjunct faculty with the Division of Public Safety Leadership. Jennifer also teaches a course on statistics online through Tiffin University (Ohio). Before entering academia, she served as a victim advocate with the Domestic Violence Investigative Unit, housed at the Niagara Falls (NY) Police Department.
Jennifer currently is finishing her doctoral dissertation, examining terrorist attacks on police, and completing the university teaching and learning program at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she received a grant from the Center of Teaching Excellence to organize a teaching and learning discussion group for graduate students in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She earned a Master’s degree in criminal justice administration at Niagara University (New York).
In addition to her work on terrorist attacks on police, Jennifer also is researching social factors affecting felonious killings of police in the line of duty with a PSL graduate, Baltimore Police Sergeant Steven Olson (co-author of Some Gave All: A History of Baltimore Police Officers Killed in the Line of Duty, 1808-2007). Her publication topics and research interests include policing, specifically violence against the police; terrorism; violence against women; and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
