Jebadiha Potterf

• Committed, charismatic, and student-centered professor with expertise in Criminology and Sociology. Offers 5+ year background supporting students, developing instructional plans, creating and assessing course exams, quizzes and written assignments.
• Exceptional lecturing skills with a proven history of high student engagement at undergraduate level in both residential, online, and hybrid educational environments.
• Dedicated to providing students with necessary tools to achieve academic goals and prepare for future careers.
• Active researcher, with experience bringing undergraduates into the research process to facilitate hands on learning.

2020 - present: Dissertation Research (Advisor: Prabha Unnithan)

• Qualitative analysis into an alternative lifestyle, motorcycle nomads, with an emphasis on the factors influencing the decision to join this alternative lifestyle.
• Experience with IRB application, review, and approval process.

2017 (PI: KuoRay Mao)

• Synthesized the current literature on Green Victimization and related topics in preparation for PI to do work in this area.

2015 – 2017 (PI: Prabha Unnithan)

• Worked with a team to develop and administer a survey to undergraduates evaluating perceptions of the Colorado State University Police Department, as well as awareness of and participation in CSUPD sponsored programs.
• I also supervised undergraduate research volunteers working on phone banks to administer the survey.
• This project was funded by CSUPD.

2012-2014: Master's Thesis (Advisor: Peggy Petrezelka)

• Media analysis project evaluating the framing used in local newspaper coverage of the shale oil boom in S. Texas as compared to the framing of the issue used by dominant anti-fracking groups and the oil and gas industry through industry trade associations.

2012 – 2014 (PI: Peggy Petrezelka)

• Participated in qualitative research, interviews and focus groups, investigating the communication patterns between oil and gas industry actors and communities experiencing rapid growth in oil and gas development in South Texas’s Eagle Ford Shale region.
• Assisted in using the data gathered through qualitative research to design a survey to be sent to a sample of the total population living in this region of Texas.
• This project was funded by the US Department of Energy.

Peer Reviewed Articles

• Potterf, Jebadiha E. and Jason Pohl. (2018). “A Black Teen, a White Cop and a City in Turmoil: Analyzing Newspaper Reports on Ferguson, Missouri and the Death of Michael Brown.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 34(4): 421-441.
• Potterf, Jebadiha E., and N. Prabha Unnithan. (2022). "Post-legalization drug communication: Examining a Colorado cannabis campaign." Substance Use & Misuse 57(1): 27-35.
• Greenwood, Ian D., Jebadiha Potterf, Chris Moloney, and N. Prabha Unnithan. (2022). "Interaction satisfaction with university police: Procedural justice and perceptions of safety and fear on campus." International Journal of Police Science & Management 24(2): 210-224.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• Potterf, Jebadiha E. 2019. “A Brief History of Anti-Substance Use Advertising in the U.S.” In More on Marijuana Legalization Ed. Nancy Marion and Joshua Hill.
• Potterf, Jebadiha E. 2022. “Blunts” In J. Hawdon, B. L. Miller, M. Costello (Ed.), Marijuana in America: Cultural, Political, and Medical Controversies. ABC-CLIO.
• Potterf, Jebadiha E. 2022. “Bongs and Water Pipes” In J. Hawdon, B. L. Miller, M. Costello (Ed.), Marijuana in America: Cultural, Political, and Medical Controversies. ABC-CLIO.
• Potterf, Jebadiha E. 2022. “Joints” In J. Hawdon, B. L. Miller, M. Costello (Ed.), Marijuana in America: Cultural, Political, and Medical Controversies. ABC-CLIO.

Technical Reports

• Potterf, Jebadiha E., Peggy Petrezelka, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Colter Ellis, Gene L. Theodori, and Cameron Alex Carmichael. “Community Perceptions of the Oil and Gas Industry in the Eagle Ford Shale Play” Produced for the Houston Advanced Research Center, funded by the US Department of Energy Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America. 2013
• Unnithan, N. Prabha, Chris Moloney, Jebadiha E. Potterf, and Ian Greenwood. “Colorado State University Police Department: 2015-2016 student opinion survey.” Produced for and funded by the Colorado State University Police Department. 2016.

Book Reviews

• Potterf, Jebadiha. 2016. Manhood Acts: Gender and the Practices of Domination by Michael Schwalbe, 2014. The Social Science Journal 53(3): 384-386.
• Greenfield, Nick, Emily Haire, Josh Hendrickson, Hannah Love, Kelsea MacIlroy, Jebadiha E. Potterf, Stacia S. Ryder, Yan Shan, and N. Prabha Unnithan. 2016. Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change, and Social Justice 2nd ed. Edited by Kathleen O. Korgen, Jonathan M. White, and Michelle K. White, 2013. Teaching Sociology 44(1): 49-51.