Meet Nathan T. Connealy
Assistant Professor, Criminology
Phone: (813) 258-7424
Email: nconnealy@ut.edu
Address: 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33606
Mailbox: Q
Building:
PH
Room: 441
Education
2015 Simpson College, B.A.
2021 John Jay College-The Graduate Center CUNY, Ph.D.
Courses Taught
Law Enforcement (UG)
Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice (UG)
Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice (UG/G)
Terrorism (UG)
Criminal Justice Policy and Program Evaluation (G)
Career Specialties
Nathan Connealy's research interests include the spatial and temporal analysis of crime, quantitative methodologies and research designs and police technology. Before entering academia, he worked as a crime analyst for several midwestern metropolitan police departments.
Professional and Community Activities
Connealy’s current research activities work to bridge scholarship into the practitioner realm. He holds several active partnerships with law enforcement agencies in Chicago, Kansas City and Newark to implement hot spot policing approaches and evaluate current place-based strategies, to integrate emerging technologies like body-worn cameras and gunshot detection technology and to innovate around the use of quantitative data. He also engages students in the research process by chairing graduate thesis' and participating in undergraduate summer research programming. His scholarship has appeared in peer-reviewed outlets including Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy and Justice Quarterly among other journals.
Connealy is also the associate director for training and consultation at the newly formed Criminology Institute for Research and Training (CIRT) at UT. In this capacity, he works to engage both academics and practitioners in relevant skill-building seminars including data management, data analysis and crime mapping techniques.
In addition to professional service, Connealy is actively involved in several campus and local initiatives. He sponsors student organizations at UT like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Wrestling Club, as well as serves on several alumni groups at his alma mater, Simpson College.
Honors and Awards
2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Award
University of Tampa
2023 Research Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Award
University of Tampa
2022 Michael C. Braswell/Routledge Outstanding Dissertation Award
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
2022 John Jay College Doctoral Program Outstanding Dissertation Award
John Jay College
2021 Dr. James Fyfe Fellowship
John Jay College
2020 Dr. Arthur & Elaine Niederhoffer Fellowship
John Jay College