Global Terrorism Research Centre Staff and Their Areas of Research Interest
Centre Management
Dr Pete Lentini (GTReC and Senior Lecturer in Politics) Centre Director (From September 2007); Coordinator for Research, Policy and Governance: Neojihadism in Australia and globally, comparative extremisms and new religious movements, terrorism, political violence and post-conflict reconstruction in Russia and the North Caucasus
Dr Benjamin MacQueen (Lecturer in Politics) Deputy Director (From August 2009); Postgraduate Research Coordinator: International Relations; Middle Eastern politics and society; conflict resolution and post-conflict theory and practice; politics of Islam; democracy and political reform; security and terrorism studies; US politics and society.
William Kelly (Politics and GTReC) Police and Parliamentary Liaison; External Engagement Coordinator: Deputy Commissioner Victoria Police (ret.): Lecturer in Masters of Counter-Terrorism on Policing and intelligence, human rights, social cohesion, multiculturalism and its counter-terrorism role.
Dr Muhammad Bakashmar (Researcher in Politics and GTReC) Curriculum Coordinator; Convener, Master of Counter-Terrorism Studies: Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies, Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia, Religion and Politics in East Africa.
Waleed Aly (Lecturer in Politics and GTReC). Academic Engagement Coordinator: Terrorism and political violence, History of Islamic thought, Islam in diaspora conditions, with particular attention to Australia.
Ela Ogru (Researcher in Politics and GTReC) Centre Officer, Citizenship, nationalism, identity, social inclusion and exclusion, terrorism and political violence.
GTReC Members
Virginie Andre (Researcher in Politics and GTReC), Project Leader, ‘Mapping Political Violence in Southern Thailand’: Security, terrorism, insurgency, disarmament, conflict resolution, ethno-nationalism, globalization, cosmopolitanism, democracy and military, especially in Thailand and Southeast Asia.
Professor Greg Barton (Politics), Herb Feith Professor for the Study of Indonesia, Deputy UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations (Asia-Pacific) and Acting Director, Centre for Islam and the Modern World, Islamist and Islamic movements and thought, terrorism, security, progressive Islamic thought and civil society, politics and social movements in the Muslim world with particular reference to Indonesia, Muslim Southeast Asia and Turkey.
Professor Emeritus Gary D. Bouma (Sociology) UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations (Asia-Pacific); Director GTReC, (October 2006-September 2007). Sociology of religion, managing religious diversity.
Anna Halafoff (Sociology): Researcher for the UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations (Asia-Pacific). Multifaith movements, religion and peacebuilding, multifaith education, cosmopolitan governance.
Dr Luke Howie (Lecturer, Behavioural Studies): behavioural responses to terrorism, victimisation, the media and terrorism, new media and terrorism, terrorism and businesses.
Dr Sayed Khatab (Research Fellow, GTReC): Islamic political thought, fundamentalism, Islamic law and political violence, democracy in Islam, human rights, terrorism and counter-terrorism.
Jonathan Lyons (Researcher, Sociology): Researcher, Sociology of religion, Western discourse of Islam, media coverage of Islam and Muslims.
Dr Simon Moss (Senior Lecturer, Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine): Psychology of terrorism; leadership; resilience, aggression; group dynamics and impact of environment on individual behaviour.
Dr Gerry Nagtzaam (Lecturer, Faculty of Law): Eco-Terrorism and Environmental Activism; US Politics; International Relations and International Law.
GTReC Adjunct Research Associates
Dr Jeremy Dwyer: Criminality and Terrorism in contemporary Russia; Popular representations of terrorism and criminality in contemporary Russian fiction; Contemporary Russian Politics.
Dr Gaetano Joe Ilardi: Community Engagement Officer, Victoria Police: Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation and de-radicalisation; counterterrorism policing; security intelligence and counterintelligence.
Dr Andrew Newman: Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University: Nuclear proliferation and terrorism, the future of the nuclear fuel cycle, the politics of nuclear waste in the United States, and US and international security.Associate Professor Douglas Pratt: Convenor, Religious Studies Programme, Chairperson, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand: Christian thought and history, Islam and Christian-Muslim relations, interreligious dialogue, pluralism, fundamentalism, and terrorism.
Dr Eduardo Ugarte: Terrorism and Conflict in the Philippines, with reference to the Abu Sayyaf Group; hostage taking as a terrorist tactic.