Violence and Targeted Violence

Mario Scalora is the director of the Public Policy Center and professor of psychology with the Clinical Training and Law-Psychology Programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He coordinates an active academic research program engaging in collaborative research in targeted violence. His research interests address various types of targeted violence issues including threats to public institutions and infrastructure/threat assessment, sexual offending, stalking, and workplace violence. Scalora has extensive relationships with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies related to threat assessment research and consultation assessing predictive risk factors and management strategies concerning targeted threatening, and violent activity. In addition to his role as director, Scalora also serves as a consulting psychologist with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police regarding campus safety, threat management, and emergency preparedness. (Updated March 2025)

Kathryn Holland is the director of the Sexual Assault and Sexual Health (SASH) Lab, where she and her students study a variety of issues related to sexual assault and sexual health—with the goal of helping people (especially those who are marginalized by their gender and/or sexual identities) live safer and healthier lives by understanding and changing oppressive social institutions and systems. Holland joined the university faculty in 2017 and is an associate professor jointly appointed in the Department of Psychology and the Women’s & Gender Studies Program. She works within both disciplines to investigate how people’s health and wellbeing are influenced by their social environments, including formal support systems, social norms, and interpersonal processes. (Updated March 2025)