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Faculty Full-time MJA Faculty Dr. Darl H. Champion Dr. Frank J. Trapp Dr. Trapp is a professor of political science in the Department of Political Science within the School of Public Affairs at Methodist University. Dr. Trapp holds a master of political science and a doctorate in political science with a concentration in Middle East politics, research methods, and conflict theory from Florida State University. At the undergraduate level, he has taught courses on American government, comparative politics, international relations, developing politics, international organizations, state and local government, political economy, Middle East politics, research methods, public administration, comparative public policy, and terrorism and conflict theory. At the graduate level, he has taught courses on analytical/research methods for public administrators, state and local government, international organizations, international relations, and Middle East politics. Dr. Trapp was hired by Methodist University in Fall 2004. From 1990 to 2004, he was a tenured associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He is a graduate lecturer for Troy State University, a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Mining and Technology, Xouhou, China in 2004, the Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China 2002, and an adjunct professor for the International Studies Program, United States John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, 1993-94. Dr. Trapp has worked as a contract research analyst for the United State Defense Intelligence Agency and has authored the following research studies: Emergency Situation Ministries in the Former Soviet Union: A Thirteen Country Study, 206 pages, 2004; Estonian Telecommunications: A Study of Post-Soviet Development, 364 pages, 2002; and Life Science Facilities of North and West Africa: A Twenty-two Country Study, 60 Pages, 2001. Dr. Trapp is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Model United Nations Organizations, the Model Arab League Organization, and currently is the Vice-President for the North Carolina Political Science Association. At the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, he served on a wide variety of university committees and was the secretary for the Faculty Senate from 2001 to 2002. At the community level, Dr. Trapp is a member of the State Employees Credit Union of North Carolina’s Loan Review Committee. Dr. Willis M. Watt Dr. Donald L. Lassiter Dr. Michael Potts Professor of Philosophy Dr. Potts holds the M.Th. in theology from Harding University Graduate School of Religion, the M.A. in religion from Vanderbilt University, and the Ph.D. in philosophy from The University of Georgia. He has taught undergraduate courses in philosophy and religion, including Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Religion, Introduction to Biblical Studies, Logic, Ethics, Business Ethics, Medical Ethics, and Ethical Foundations of Criminal Justice. He has also taught a graduate course in medical ethics to students in the Methodist University Physician Assistant Program. He edited (with Paul A. Byrne and Richard G. Nilges) a book, Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000). He has ten articles in refereed scholarly journals, including Academic Questions, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Journal of Medical Ethics, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Journal of Near-Death Studies, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine and The Thomist. His letters have been published in the British Medical Journal, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and the New England Journal of Medicine. He also has written several book chapters for anthologies and six articles for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society. He has made over twenty-five presentations at scholarly conferences, including a paper at the “Signs of Death” conference in February 2005 at The Vatican City. In addition, his poetry has been published in such magazines as the Journal of the American Medical Association and Poems & Plays. His poetry chapbook, From Field to Thicket, won the Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Award of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and his essay, “Haunted,” won the Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award from the same organization. He was recently elected to the Board of the North Carolina Poetry Society. Adjunct MJA Faculty J. Thomas Edwards Dr. J. Thomas Edwards is currently the Director of Public Safety and Homeland Security Training for Wake Technical Community College. Previously, Dr. Edwards has held positions as an Instructor/Coordinator with the North Carolina Justice Academy, BLET School Director and Criminal Justice Curriculum Instructor at Southeastern Community College, and BLET School Director for the Coastal Plain Police Academy. His law enforcement career began 1977 with the Wilson Police Department. Other law enforcement positions have been with the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office as the SRT Team Leader, an Agent with the Alcohol Law Enforcement Division of North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, and a Military Police Officer in the United States Army Reserves. Dr. Edwards has a Doctor of Education, Training and Development from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; a Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI; and a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mt., NC. Dr. Edwards has participated in the Oxford Round Table for Criminal Justice and Law at Oxford University, England. Dr. Edwards has been awarded the T. Elbert Clemmons Faculty Award from Southeastern Community College, the Outstanding BLET Instructor from the Coastal Plains Law Enforcement Academy and graduated with honors in Criminal Justice from North Carolina Wesleyan College. Dr. Bruce Gay Dr. Gay holds a master of arts in philosophy and a doctorate in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University. Dr. Gay has been teaching at the university level since 1993 and has taught courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. At the undergraduate level he has taught courses in policing, criminology, criminal justice administration, investigations, profiling, juvenile justice, gangs, terrorism, police tactics, theories of justice, modern trial advocacy, research methods, victimology, and ethics. At the University of Texas, Dr. Gay taught graduate courses in research methods and critical issues in policing. Currently, he is teaching a graduate course in school violence threat assessment for the School of Education at Campbell University. In addition to his academic training, Dr. Gay has approximately 10 years of law enforcement experience working with the following agencies: Dallas Police Department (Dallas, Texas), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, and the Houston Police Department’s Targeted Offender Program. As a police officer, Dr. Gay has served as a patrol officer, a field training officer, and on the S.W.A.T. team. His areas of training expertise include: use of force, street survival skills, gangs, extremist groups, biological terrorism, ethics, stress management, interviewing, and verbal deception detection. Dr. Gay has been the recipient of several distinguished teaching awards including: Who’s Who Among America’s University Teachers (2002), the Enron Teaching Excellence Award, University of Houston-Downtown (1998), Top Professor Award, Mortar Board, University of Texas-Arlington (1997), and Professor of the Year Award, Western Carolina University (1995). Dr. Richard A. S. Hall Dr. Hall received a M.A. in philosophy from Dalhousie University and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto. At the undergraduate level he has taught a wide variety of courses including the introduction to philosophy, ethics (including a course on ethical foundations in criminal justice), logic, critical thinking, aesthetics and the philosophy of art, and the history of philosophy. He has published two books, The Ethical Foundations of Criminal Justice (Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press/LLC Publication, 2000), and The Neglected Northampton Texts of Jonathan Edwards: Edwards on Society and Politics (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990). He has also published articles and essays in the areas of the history of American philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of art, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. Further, he visits libraries, museums and art galleries throughout North Carolina giving presentations on the history of art. Chief Thomas McCarthy Chief McCarthy has been Fayetteville's police chief since June of 2001. He has a master’s degree in public administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and has done graduate work at Saint Louis University. He began his police career in Newport News, Virginia where he worked his way to the rank of commander. From 1987 until 1993 he served as the Gaston County Police Chief, and also served as the County's Assistant County and Deputy County Manager from 1994 until 2001. During that time he was also privileged to serve again as the County Police Chief from 1998 until he left for Fayetteville in 2001. He also spent two years as the police chief in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is an adjunct professor of Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke where he teaches graduate courses in Leadership and Labor Relations. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, and the FBI's Law Enforcement Executive Development program. He is an active member of the Police Executive Research Forum where he serves on both the legislative and terrorism committees. Thomas McNally Thomas M. Moss Chief of Police Garner, NC Thomas M. Moss is the Chief of Police in Garner. Garner is a community of 24,500 residents located in Wake County – the heart of the Research Triangle Park region of North Carolina. He manages a staff of 65 full-time personnel in this full service municipal community policing agency. Chief Moss has more than 30 years of law enforcement experience. He began his law enforcement career as a uniformed patrol officer and ultimately spent more than four years as a crime scene investigator. He was recognized as a fingerprint expert in superior court and testified in numerous felony cases. He taught full-time as a criminal justice instructor in a North Carolina community college and served as departmental chair of the curriculum program. While in the community college system, he served as school director for the Basic Law Enforcement Training program and coordinated other law enforcement training courses. He was selected to serve as training and personnel manager for the police department in an eastern North Carolina community. While in this department, he was promoted to the rank of Captain managing the support and investigative divisions. He served as interim director of city personnel for a brief period and was later promoted to the rank of Assistant Chief of Police. For the past 17 years, he has served as Chief of Police in Garner.
Chief Moss earned a Master of Public Administration degree from
East Carolina University and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy
and the Municipal & County Administration Program at UNC-Chapel
Hill. He is a past president of the North Carolina Association of
Chiefs of Police and currently serves on the Governor’s Crime
Commission and the NC Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards
Commission. He has instructed law enforcement training courses in
the community college system and at the North Carolina Justice Academy.
He has taught college-level courses at both the two-year and four-year
college level and is a guest lecturer at the Institute of Government
at UNC. Dr. Martha A. Stanford Dr. Stanford earned her master’s degree in education from Western Carolina University and a doctorate in adult education with a specialty in training and development from North Carolina State University. In her Director’s position at the NCJA, she manages two residential training centers with over 100 personnel whose mission is to provide curriculum development for all mandated law enforcement programs, as well as deliver advanced and specialized training programs for the professional development of criminal justice personnel. Dr. Stanford has a wealth of experience in the criminal justice field. She began her career working as a Program Director in an adult prison and served as an Assistant Director of an institution housing juvenile offenders. She served as a training manager and instructor for the Justice Academy and then progressed to lead the training function for the Department of Correction. Her corrections career culminated in the position of a Regional Administrator with the Department of Correction managing 13 prisons and 9 probation/parole districts. She has consulted with the National Institute of Correction and taught NCJA Management Development Program, Instructor and Advanced Instructor courses. She has taught an undergraduate course in corrections at Meredith College, Raleigh, NC. Dr. Stanford has given numerous presentations to both graduate and undergraduate classes in various colleges and universities. Representative Rick Glazier is presently serving his first term in the North Carolina General Assembly, and is a member of the largest freshmen class since 1984. Rep. Glazier practices employment
and labor law, and teaches a course on criminal evidence at Fayetteville
State University. Mr. Glazier has taught criminal justice as an
adjunct instructor at FTCC and NC State, and has been teaching courses
at Campbell University School of Law for more than a decade. Mr.
Glazier received his law degree from Wake Forest University in 1981.
He is a six-year veteran board member of the Cumberland County School
Board, serving two years as Chairman, three years as the Chair of
its Finance and Budget Committee, and co-chair of the 1997 School
Bond campaign. A strong supporter of quality public education, Mr.
Glazier has been an advisor to high school students on the Moot
Court, a scholastic appellate court competition. He has served as
the regional chair of the State Mock Trial Competition. He has served
as a board member of the Women’s Center, as well as UNC Public
Television, where he was a three-year Chairman of the Finance Committee.
Currently, Mr. Glazier is on the board of directors of the Fayetteville
Urban Ministry and the Child Advocacy Center. In 1993, Speaker of
the House Dan Blue appointed Mr. Glazier to the NC Juvenile Code
Revision Committee. During that time, Mr. Glazier was also appointed
by Governor Hunt to the Governor’s Crime Commission’s
Juvenile Justice. In the General Assembly, Mr. Glazier serves on
six House Committees: Judiciary IV (Vice-Chairman); Education; Education
Subcommittee on Pre-School, Elementary and Secondary Education;
Finance; Financial Institutions; and Health. He is also a member
of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Medical Malpractice, which meets
in the interim session. Mr. Glazier pursued these committee assignments
because they represented areas that would directly affect families
and citizens of Cumberland County. Mr. Glazier was elected to lead
the Democratic Freshman members as their Chairman. He organized
the groundbreaking ‘Listen & Learn Legislative Statewide
Bus Tour’, where the freshmen toured the state to hear citizens
talk about important issues. In 2003, Mr. Glazier was chosen as
Legislator of the Year by the NC School Guidance Counselor Association,
and was appointed to serve on the NC Actual Innocence Commission
by Co-Speaker of the House Jim Black. He has also been selected
as a Fellow by the Flemming Leadership Institute, a program funded
by the Kellogg Foundation that trains emerging state legislators
from across the 50 states. Mr. Glazier has been appointed to the
Chief Justice’s Commission on the Future of the NC Business
Court, and was the first legislator ever to win a seat in the 2004
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