Alan Jay Lincoln

As the first member of the Criminal Justice Program at UMass Lowell in 1977, Alan has a long history of contributing to the campus community. After earning master’s degrees in psychology and sociology and his doctorate in sociology from UMass Amherst, he completed a Postdoctoral National Institute of Health program in Family Violence and also held a Fullbright Professorship in the Netherlands. Alan is the author of numerous articles and three books on crime and violence and a former journal editor of Library and Archival Security. He has served three terms as a graduate coordinator and eleven years as Special Assistant to the Graduate Dean.  He currently serves on the Institutional Review Board for human subject research.