Dr. Claire S. Lee is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies and a member of the Center for Internet Security and Forensics Education and Research (iSAFER) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is also a founding member and a researcher of Cybercrime Investigation & Cybersecurity Lab (CIC) at Boston University and an editor of the International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence and Cybercrime (IJCIC). She is an Academic Editor of PLoS One. She was a volunteer instructor for the Prison Teaching Initiative in Incheon, South Korea. She currently serves as a Vice Chair (2023-2024) for the Division of Cybercrime at American Society of Criminology.
Her research expertise expands into two areas: (1) Cyber and digital (i.e., deviance and crime in cyberspace (cyberterrorism, cyberpolicing, transnational cybercrime), digital sociology (datafication, big data, digital ethics, IT policy), which was expanded from and combined with her previous research on sociology of media, culture, ICT and (2) Global media and im/migration (cross-border mobilities of people, knowledge, culture). While she’s developing courses and research projects on big data, linking online and offline behaviors, she is currently interested in understanding mechanisms and networks of deviant behaviors at state- and individual-levels that are facilitated by cyber-resources and/or are located in cyberspace. She serves as one of the Instructors for a National Security Agency-funded GenCyber 2021 to be hosted by UML in the summer of 2021.
As a dedicated teacher-scholar, she is interested in and practices connective learning in her classroom, which is also being translated into her research. In this connection, she received innovative teaching grants (for big data and statistics courses) at her previous institution.
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