Rate My Professor Todd Schroer

Dr. Todd J. Schroer serves as Chair of the Criminal Justice Department and Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Southern Indiana, within the College of Liberal Arts. His administrative roles include previous service on the Faculty Senate and current membership on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Social Justice Center. Additionally, he directs the Rechnic Holocaust Speaker and Film Series and maintains contact information including phone (812) 464-1723.

Dr. Schroer's scholarly work encompasses research on the White Racialist Movement since the early 1990s and the Pro-Pedophilia Movement for over a decade, with publications and presentations addressing the usage of music and the Internet by social movements, and the creation, maintenance, and negotiation of deviant identities. Key publications include the chapter 'White Nationalists' Media-Constructed Rituals: The Interplay of Technology and Core Codes' in The American Ritual Tapestry: Social Rules and Cultural Meanings (1998) and 'Studying Your Enemy: Ethical Guidelines for Online Ethnography' in the Iowa Journal of Communication (1999).

He has made significant contributions to Holocaust and genocide studies through presentations such as 'Genocide and the Criminal Justice System: National Socialist Policing, Courts, Corrections, and Theory' at the Annual Midwest Sociological Society meeting (April 2024) and 'The Effects of the Charlottesville Killing on the Alt-Right' at the Indiana Academy of Social Sciences annual meeting. Dr. Schroer has received major fellowships and honors, including the Holocaust Educational Foundation's Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University (2019), the Curt C. and Else Silberman Faculty Seminar 'Racial Practice: Theory, Policy, and Execution in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South' at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2018), the Scheidt Family Seminar on Genocide Studies and Prevention at the University of Connecticut (June 2025), the Journey to Justice eight-day Civil Rights Movement tour visiting Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma, Memphis, and Louisville (June 2024), and a leadership seminar organized by the Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights (TOLI) in Atlanta (June 2024).

Dr. Schroer has organized impactful public lectures and events, including co-hosting a TOLI Summer Seminar for local teachers in partnership with CYPRESS and the College of Liberal Arts (2025) and serving as primary contact for the University of Southern Indiana's inaugural Rechnic Holocaust Film Series (February 2026). These activities underscore his influence in advancing education on genocide prevention, civil rights, and social justice within the academic field.