Doctoral Student Bios

terrorism, religion and crime, crime and place, and white-collar crime

Hannah is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society. She serves as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and the ASAP Lab, where she supports the research efforts of Dr. Sue-Ming Yang. She also works as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Virginia CIT Coalition, assisting with data analysis and report translation to practitioners across the state. Hannah received her B.S. in Sociology with Honors from Union University in 2020 and her M.A. in Criminology, Law and Society from Mason in 2026. Her research interests include religion and crime, terrorism, crime and place, and white-collar crime.