Faculty & Staff
Full-time Faculty
Mary Ann Probst, Esquire, Program Coordinator
Office: 101H Cypress Building
Phone: 814-949-5352
E-mail:
Michael Arter, Ph. D.
E-mail:
Dr. Arter is an assistant
professor of criminal justice at Penn State Altoona. He joined the
criminal justice faculty after receiving his doctorate from Indiana University
of Pennsylvania in 2005. Dr. Arter had an 18-year career in law enforcement
prior to his return to the academic setting. His teaching and research
interests focus on law enforcement, drugs and drugs policies, police stress,
ethics, police mentoring, and criminological theory.
Vidisha Barua, LLM, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
E-mail:
Phone: (814) 949-5346
Office: 101G Cypress Building
L. Edward Day, Ph.D.
E-mail:
Dr. Day received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in
Seattle in 1992. An award winning teacher, he left a teaching position
at University Park to join the Altoona faculty in the Fall of 2001.
His early published research focused on delinquency prevention. Recent
research has focused on victimization and genocide. He is a founding
member of the Genocide Research Project (http://www.people.memphis.edu/~genocide) and a founding editor of the journal War Crimes, Genocide, & Crimes Against Humanity (http://www.war-crimes.org). Dr. Day maintains his home page at http://www.personal.psu.edu/led7/.
Amir Marvasti, Ph.D.
E-mail:
Dr. Marvasti is an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at
Penn State Altoona. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of
Florida. He has published in the Quinnipiac Law Review, Qualitative Inquiry,
and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. His research interests include race and
ethnicity, deviance, and social theory. He is the author of Being Homeless:
Textual and Narrative Constructions, Qualitative Research in Sociology, and
Middle Eastern Lives in America (forthcoming with Karyn McKinney). His current
research focuses on the immigration experiences of Middle Eastern Americans and
their treatment in the criminal justice system.
Robert M. Worley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
E-mail:
Phone: (814) 949-5781
Office: 103 Cypress Building
Part-time Faculty
Robert S. Donaldson, Esquire
Attorney Donaldson
received his Bachelor of Science degree in law enforcement and corrections from
The Pennsylvania State
University and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Miami School
of Law, Miami, Florida. He has
served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the Office of
Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since June 2003. In the
Organized Crime and Narcotics section he is responsible for prosecuting narcotics,
money laundering, and other cases including asset forfeitures matters
under the Controlled Substances Act. He is a member of the
American, Pennsylvania, and Blair County Bar Associations as well as the
Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association. Mr. Donaldson serves on boards of
directors for regional and national companies as well as a number of non-profit
organizations.
Scott A. Kelly, M.S.
E-mail:
Office: 106 Smith Bldg.
Currently, he is pursuing his Doctoral degree in the College of
Agricultural Sciences: Agricultural Extension Education. Mr. Kelly
received his Master's degree from Florida Metropolitan University,
Tampa, Florida and completed his undergraduate degree in criminal
justice with a minor in psychology from Penn State Altoona in December
2002. His research interests include academic advising, youth civic
engagement, leadership and civic programs for families, and the
prevention of tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and STDs in correctional
facilities. In addition, he received the 2008-2009 Student Government
Association Excellence in Academic Advising Award. He serves as Chair
for the Alcohol Drug Abuse Prevention Team (ADAPT):
Academic/Environmental Sub-Committee and is the faculty/staff, as well
as, a founding member and previous executive board member of the
Criminal Justice Organization (CJO) at Penn State Altoona.
Please visit Mr. Kelly's personal web page at
http://www.personal.psu.edu/sak229/ for additional
information on the criminal justice program and program forms.
David R. Satka, M.S.
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Mr. Satka joined the Criminal Justice Program at Penn State Altoona in 1999
after working in the same capacity for three other colleges across the country.
Mr. Satka received both his undergraduate and Master’s degrees in criminology
from Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana. Mr. Satka has eight years
of experiences as a former Federal Bureau of Prisons administrator and as a
Reserve Officer in the U.S. Army Military Police Corp prior to pursuing a career
in education. His teaching interests include penology, prison administration,
and criminology.
Contact
Mary Ann Probst, Esquire
Program Coordinator, Instructor in Criminal Justice
Office: 101H Cypress Building
Phone: 814-949-5352
E-mail:
