HCAS Alumnus is Named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at University of Pittsburgh-Bradford

Tony Gaskew, Ph.D., doctoral graduate of the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and Guy Harvey Oceanographic Institute (HCAS) has been named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh Bradford, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Gaskew is a Professor of Criminal Justice and served as the Director of the Criminal Justice Program. He spent over 20 years in law enforcement. In 2016, he was one of ten US educators invited to the White House to participate in a Roundtable on Criminal Justice Reform.  Gaskew was a recipient of the 2014 NSU Distinguished Alumni Award. His honors include the Fulbright-Hays Fellow for a research project in Egypt and the Academic Fellow in Terrorist Studies in Israel by The Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He was named a University of Pittsburgh Faculty Diversity Fellow and Teacher of the Year by The National Society of Leadership and Success. Gaskew is the founding director of the nationally recognized UPB Prison Education Program. Gaskew received the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (DHS) Beacon of Dignity Award at Columbia University in 2015 for his outstanding dedication to equality and human rights. He is the book series editor of Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice. He has been a featured speaker at DCRS’ Social Justice Roundtable.

His latest book recently published by Lexington Rowman & Littlefield is Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned form the Front Lines of Black Liberation. For more information please see: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498589505/Stop-Trying-to-Fix-Policing-Lessons-Learned-from-the-Front-Lines-of-Black-Liberation