Gaskew to Give Lecture on CSI House

Dr. Tony Gaskew, director of the criminal justice program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, will speak on “360-Degree Crime Investigation” this month at Pitt-Bradford.

The program, which is a part of the Alumni Lecture Series presented by the Pitt Alumni Association, will take place at 6:30 p.m. on June 14 in the University Room of the Frame-Westerberg Commons. The presentation, which is free and open to the public, is being made in partnership with the Pitt-Bradford Alumni Association and Liberty Mutual.

Gaskew will speak about the criminal justice system, how crimes are solved, and demonstrate how Pitt-Bradford’s Crime Scene Investigation House and Lab are used to teach modern criminal forensic science techniques for investigating crimes. The CSI House features some of the most advanced criminal forensics equipment in the country.

Tours of the CSI House as well as complimentary refreshments will be offered immediately following the lecture.

In addition to his work as a professor on the Pitt-Bradford campus, Gaskew is also a member of the McKean County Criminal Justice Advisory Board, the McKean County Child Advocacy Center Advisory Board, and the McKean County Child Sexual Abuse Forensic Team. He is also the lead instructor for Federal Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution McKean Victim Impact Program. In 2010, Gaskew was named Volunteer of the Year by the FCI McKean for his work in the Victim Impact Program.

Before joining the Pitt-Bradford faculty, Gaskew worked extensively in the field of criminal justice. He was a member of a Counterterrorism/Counterdrug Task Force in Southeast Asia. As a detective assigned to the Special Operations Unit at MPD, he was a member of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, where he conducted wiretap and conspiracy investigations targeting violent criminal organizations in the Middle District of Florida. He was named Region IV Florida Narcotic Officer of the Year in 2004.

Gaskew received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Humanities & Social Sciences, and Criminal Justice Institute at Nova Southeastern University, and has more than 2,000 hours of specialized criminal investigations training, including death and homicide investigation, advanced evidence processing and collection, hostage negotiations, money laundering, advanced DEA, criminal conspiracy and organized crime investigations. He is also a certified police academy instructor.

In his academic career, Gaskew has earned several fellowships including a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, an FDD Terrorism Fellowship, and a University of Pittsburgh Faculty Diversity Fellowship. His articles have been published in many journals and edited books, and he has presented academic papers by invitation at several colleges and universities. His book “The Muslim Brotherhood: Reshaping US Foreign Policy in a Post-911 World” is forthcoming and will focus on his work in Egypt and Israel, where he has conducted ethnographic field work examining the Muslim Brotherhood as well as structural and political violence.

Gaskew’s previous book, “Policing Muslim American Communities,” deals with the relationship between Muslim American communities and law enforcement since the USA PATRIOT Act was implemented. Gaskew is the Board President of the Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies and the University of Pittsburgh Faculty Expert on terrorism and criminal investigations.

Those wishing to attend are asked to register online at www.alumni.pitt.edu/alumnilecture by June 9. For more information, contact the Pitt Alumni Association at 1-800-258-7488.

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