NCITE Insights

On the latest episode of the podcast, Erin speaks with Martha Crenshaw, Ph. D., NCITE researcher and professor emerita from Stanford University, to discuss the Syrian rebel group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and what a post-Assad Syria may look like. Drawing from a career spanning over five decades, Crenshaw speaks on the origins of HTS, their navigation of internal and regional power dynamics, and...

Interim host Blake Ursch speaks with NCITE senior research faculty and policy associate Seamus Hughes about his research on threats to public officials in the light of the recent presidential election. Hughes draws from nearly a decade of researching such threats and discusses how the infrastructure and policies of the incoming Trump administration may affect their prosecution.

On the latest episode of the podcast, host Erin Grace speaks with NCITE researcher Steven Windisch, Ph. D., on his research speaking to election workers about the threat environment.   Windisch is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and the associate director of the Crime and Security Data Analytics Lab (CASDAL) in the Terrorism Research Center (TRC) at the Univer...

"The noise in America right now is very loud."  One year following the attack on Israel by Hamas, the scope and intensity of the conflict has expanded beyond Israel's borders to Lebanon and Iran, increasing regional and global tensions. In a newly published white paper requested by DHS, the NCITE consortium weighs in on the key homeland security concerns resulting from the crisis. Erin sits down w...

Erin sits down with Martha Crenshaw, Ph. D., NCITE researcher and professor emerita from Stanford University, to discuss Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, covering its conflict with Israel, its ties to Iran, and recent developments in the Middle East. 

Erin sits down with Sam Hunter, Ph. D., NCITE head of strategic initiatives, to discuss what factors lead men to misogyny, and through it, extremism.

Erin sits down with Brenna Helm, NCITE research associate and doctoral candidate (ABD) at Michigan State University, to discuss the rise of misogynist violence today.   Resources on Extremist Misogyny - Leidig, E. (2023). The women of the far right: Social media influencers and online radicalization. Columbia University Press. The Women of the Far Right | Columbia University Press - Perliger, A.,...

Erin sits down with Matt Jensen, Ph. D. , NCITE researcher and co-director of the Center for Applied Social Research at the University of Oklahoma, to discuss extreme rhetoric in online spaces. Key themes include: credibility, deception, social identities, and the mirror and boomerang effects of viewing extreme messaging.

Erin sits down with Diane Mack, director of emergency management for the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center, to discuss emergency response in the wake of critical infrastructure failures.   Resources Plan For Disasters: https://www.ready.gov/ Team Rubicon: https://teamrubiconusa.org/

Erin sits down with NCITE senior research associate Tin Nguyen, Ph. D., to discuss the challenges of outdoor event security and the attempted assassination of former President Trump.   Tune in Thursday at 12 p.m. CT | 1 p.m. ET for the latest webinar in NCITE's 2024 Speaker Series: "Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management in the U.S.". Link: https://events.unomaha.edu/event/ncite-webinar-behin...

Erin sits down with Sam Hunter, Ph. D., NCITE head of strategic initiatives, to discuss the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. Hunter shares his research examining the U.S. domestic violent extremist landscape. 

Erin sits down with sociologist and NCITE researcher Pete Simi, Ph. D. to discuss white supremacy in the U.S. today. Simi co-authored the book Out of Hiding: Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can Be Stopped in 2023 along with sociologists Kathleen Blee, Ph. D. and Robert Futrell, Ph. D.

Guest host Blake Ursch sits down with NCITE graduate student Callie Vitro to discuss what it means to be an early career researcher studying terrorism and violent extremism. Vitro talks about her recent trip to the U.K. and explains how a beloved TV detective sparked her interest in criminology.

Erin speaks with Amira Jadoon, Ph. D., assistant professor of political science at Clemson University, about the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (IS-K), the terror group behind a deadly attack at a concert venue in Moscow.

Erin sits down with Sam Hunter, Ph. D., NCITE head of strategic initiatives and professor of industrial and organizational psychology to discuss how extremists could use AI technology to cause harm. 

Host Erin Grace sits down with Austin Doctor, Ph. D., NCITE head of counterterrorism research initiatives and an assistant professor of political science at UNO, to discuss a drone strike in Jordan that killed three U.S. servicemen and a pair of New York brothers who were found with a cache of weapons that included improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and ghost guns.