Dr. Travis Linnemann

Professor of Criminology and University Outstanding Scholar

PhD. Sociology, Kansas State University, 2011.

Undergraduate courses offered: True Crime, The War on Drugs, Police & Society, Criminology of Serial Murder, Introduction to Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Graduate courses offered: States of Violence, Criminal Justice in Context, Crime, Media, Culture.

Travis is a cultural criminologist whose research focuses on the ways that crime, violence and disorder are imagined and represented.

He is author, co-author and editor of several books including Meth Wars (NYUP,2016), Media and Crime in the US (Sage, 2017) and Ghost Criminology (NYUP, 2022).

His second monograph The Horror of Police (UMNP, 2022) was honored with the “Jock Young, Criminological Imagination” award by the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology.

New York University Press published his most recent book, Under the Gun: Criminology Goes Back to the Movies co-authored with Michelle Brown (University of Tennessee) in April 2026.

Travis serves on the editorial boards of Theoretical Criminology, Crime, Media, Culture, Critical Criminology, Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Australia) and Qualitative Criminology and Criminal Justice and is the series co-editor of Emerald’s Studies in Culture, Criminal Justice and the Arts. From 2020-2025 he was also co-editor-in-chief of Crime, Media, Culture.