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Data Snapshot: Characteristics of Bias Homicides Against the LGBTQIA+ Community
Check out the TRC’s 2022-2023 Prospectus
ATS Data Available at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) Website
Earlier this year, the TRC completed work on its federally funded project Investigative and Prosecutorial Strategies: Creation of a Federal Terrorism Court Record Repository. Funded by the National Institute of Justice in 2018, the project resulted in the development...
Alumni Spotlight with Noah Schneider
On December 4, 2019, the Department of Sociology and Criminology celebrated the career of TRC founding Director, Dr. Brent L. Smith, as he retired from the University of Arkansas. Dr. Smith received his PhD in Sociology from Purdue University in 1979, and first began...
Congratulations Taylor June & Austin Barber!
Congratulations to TRC graduate research assistants Taylor June and Austin Barber who earned their MA degrees in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Arkansas. Taylor (BA, University of Arkansas) served as project manager for the Extremist...
Caleb Epperson
Caleb Epperson was an intern in the TRC as a Senior during the 2018 fall semester. He is currently in his third year of law school at the University of Arkansas School of Law, focusing on Criminal Defense and Criminal Post-Conviction representation. We are very...
Research Brief: Seditious Conspiracy Cases in the American Terrorism Study (ATS)
Hannah Steinman
Hannah Steinman worked as an intern in the TRC during the fall semester of 2016, and is currently in the Criminal Justice PhD program at Temple University in Philadelphia. Thank you to Hannah for updating us! What did you do after your internship? I...
Chris Peterson
Chris Peterson was an intern in the TRC as a Junior during the 2017 fall semester. He now works as a Security Analyst in the private sector. We appreciate Chris taking the time to talk with us about his experience in the TRC! To learn more about our internships, click...
TRC Receives Funding from National Institute of Justice to Study Online and Offline Radicalization
The Terrorism Research Center (TRC) was recently selected to receive $893,721 from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to study online and offline radicalization, as well as cyberterrorism. The three year project, titled "From Dot Coms to Pipe Bombs: Online...