Rate My Professor Joseph Deleeuw

Joseph DeLeeuw is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. His office is located in Biggs 246, and his professional contact information includes the phone number 419-772-2899. DeLeeuw earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science from Michigan State University, followed by a Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington in 2018. His doctoral dissertation, "A Social Network Analysis of Domestic Terrorism and the Militia Movement in the United States," was chaired by William Alex Pridemore. During the 2013-14 academic year, as a graduate student, DeLeeuw received a fellowship from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland for the research project "Examining Militias' Use of the Internet to Recruit and Radicalize."

DeLeeuw authored the chapter "Anti-government Groups and Militias" in The Encyclopedia of Rural Crime, published by Bristol University Press in 2022. He is a regular member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) and serves as a certified reviewer for the organization. DeLeeuw has chaired panels at ACJS conferences, including on reforming criminal justice, and participated in student panels. At Ohio Northern University, he advises student research projects for the Student Research Colloquium, such as those on community-based policing, crime and symbolic interactionism by D.K. Fenton, and intimate partner violence and its connection to alcohol use by L.M. Hargreaves. He co-advises the Lambda Mu chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma, the national criminal justice honor society, with Jessica Swanson. DeLeeuw serves as the departmental liaison for Criminal Justice with university librarians. In 2022, he was honored with Employee Recognition by Ohio Northern University.