TSAS congratulates David C. Hofmann, a TSAS junior affiliate, who has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He will be defending his dissertation on charismatic authority in terrorist groups in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo in the summer. He has recently published or had accepted for publication the following articles:

Hofmann, D.C., & Dawson, L.L. (2014). “The Neglected Role of Charismatic Authority in the Study of Terrorist Groups and Radicalization,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 37, 348-368. Available here.

Hofmann, D.C. (in press). “Quantifying and Qualifying Charisma: A Theoretical Framework for Measuring the Presence of Charismatic Authority in Terrorist Groups,” Accepted April 2015 for publication in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
Published as TSAS WP15-03 available here.

Hofmann, D.C. & Gallupe, O. (2015). “Leadership Protection in Drug-Trafficking Networks,” Global Crime. Online early access here.